Weird cursor behaviour when moving cursor between desktop and windows about hyprland

[zjeffer]

I don't know if it's necessarily related to hyprcursor, though: the issue also happens when not setting a hyprcursor theme.

Either way, I'l try that rose-pine cursor theme and see what happens.

[zjeffer]

I'm stupid

My hyprland config contains this line: exec-once = hyprctl setcursor capitaine-cursors-light 24, as well as the HYPRCURSOR_THEME=rose-pine-hyprcursor env var...

Thanks for the help!

[zjeffer]

Hmm, looks like the same behaviour is present when not using hyprcursor.
I think it started happening since the aquamarine merge (because around then I also started using hyprcursor). I looked around the existing issues and see some similar ones (like the mouse cursor not being visible, or being very tiny), but I'm not sure it's the same issue.

[Kam1k4dze]

Having the same cursor issues today with fresh default Hyprland-git.
System: Arch with Nvidia-555.58.02-9

[nktnet1]

Related to #6983.

I had the same issue (cursor retaining shape when moving off window), in addition to having a small cursor on wallpaper/kitty terminal.

Documented the workaround for it here:

• #6320 (comment)

which fixes both tiny cursor and wrong cursor shape.

The gist is to use a cursor theme that has both xcursor and hyprcursor variants, e.g. rose-pine. You should also ensure that your cursor theme follow the specifications - I tried converting Adwaita theme using hyprcursor-util, but some icons, e.g. top-left resize was missing or lead to cursor mismatch. Potentially related to this issue here:

• hyprwm/hyprcursor#44

[nktnet1]

Yeah - have been trying to figure this out myself (was a regression from wlroots-hyprland -> aquamarine).
What I posted is only a workaround.

Another potential cause could be the comment by terminal-enlightenment:

The integer you used may be your problem - the sizes available vary by cursor theme. Standard sizes are 24, 32, 48, 64.

Try those first and if you're still having trouble there are a few other things you can try.

regarding the use of nwg-look to set Xcursor size.

[zjeffer]

After installing and activating rose-pine-cursor and rose-pine-hyprcursor, and restarting Hyprland, I notice that no matter what I set my xcursor & hyprcursor theme to, my resize cursor always stays the same theme (and the bug persists).

It seems to use my capitaine-cursors-white theme when I hover over my desktop, and when I resize:

2024-07-28.14-51-04.mp4

I set my cursor to rose-pine using:

• nwg-look
• lxappearance
• HYPRCURSOR_THEME=rose-pine-hyprcursor and HYPRCURSOR_SIZE=28

And still my capitaine-cursors theme is being used when hovering over the desktop 🤔

[zjeffer]

Found something: when I set the cursor with hyprctl setcursor rose-pine-hyprcursor 24, it works! It changes my cursor everywhere and the bug disappears.

So why doesn't HYPRCURSOR_THEME work? (tried it in my config with size 24 as well, no difference)

[nktnet1]

Do you have something similar to this in your ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf:

env = HYPRCURSOR_THEME,rose-pine-hyprcursor
env = XCURSOR_SIZE,28
env = HYPRCURSOR_SIZE,28
env = QT_CURSOR_SIZE,28

Also, on a fresh start (without the hyprctl setcursor command), when you view the logs with the command:

grep 'cursor' "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/hypr/$(ls -t $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/hypr | head -n 1)/hyprland.log" | head

Do you see rose-pine being loaded?

For example, it should look similar to this:

[14:09:04.548621332] [hc] CHyprcursorManager: attempting to find theme from env
[14:09:04.548795888] [hc] getFullPathForThemeName: found /usr/share/icons/rose-pine-hyprcursor
[14:09:04.548806885] [hc] Found theme rose-pine-hyprcursor at /usr/share/icons/rose-pine-hyprcursor