The cursor theme isn't set correctly when hovering over the desktop wallpaper, instead it's set to "Adwaita". In applications, the activity switcher, the panel, the "add widgets" dialog or if I right click on the wallpaper, the correct theme (breeze) is set. I also tried other themes (e.g. oxygen theme) but this didn't work too. The set cursor size also isn't honored. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Hover with the mouse over the wallpaper 2.Hover over an application or one of the items mentioned above Actual Results: The "Adwaita" cursor theme is set when hovering over the wallpaper. If I move the mouse to an application, the correct "Breeze" theme is set. Expected Results: The "Breeze" cursor theme is set everywhere. I can only reproduce this on one of my arch machines. Creating a new user doesn't help.
I''m not sure if this is a duplicate of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337083
After playing a bit around (unfortunately I can't reproduce it, I think I only changed the sddm-kcm and the cursor-kcm), the correct cursor theme is set when hovering over the wallpaper, but the size still isn't honored.
apparently is a packaging issue, a file named /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme should be existing and having the line Inherits = breeze_cursors
I can confirm that this file has the line Inherits = Adwaita Is this a downstream bug I should report or a KDE bug? And why did it disappear after changing some settings?
yeah, i think is a downstream issue
Can someone explain why it's a downstream issue? I've changed the line in /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme to: Inherits = breeze_cursors KDE is *still* not following my System Settings cursor theme. If I switch to something else than the Breeze theme, then the desktop now uses Breeze... I'm very confused. What would downstream need to do here?
I agree to doubt that this is a "downstream" issue. The cursor apparently (and according to the OP) updates correctly on everything (*including* other windows in the plasmashell process!) but the desktop containment, so the latter will somehow™ cache the cursor image and not invalidate the cache on theme changes.
The problem seems to be that ~/.config/kcminputrc isn't created on first login. Changing settings in the cursor theme KCM forces this file to be created and solves the problem. Perhaps Plasma should create this config with the proper settings on first login?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 382604 ***