Bug 454616 - On Wayland, cursor never changes when hovering over anything drawn by Plasma
Summary: On Wayland, cursor never changes when hovering over anything drawn by Plasma
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 5.24.5
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
URL:
Keywords: wayland-only
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2022-05-30 15:59 UTC by Sam
Modified: 2023-02-14 17:41 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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2022-05-30 15:59 UTC, Sam 		Details
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Description Sam 2022-05-30 15:59:38 UTC 
Created attachment 149337 [details]
Video showing bug

SUMMARY
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Install sweet-cursors theme and apply
2. Do as seen in the video, the app open is firefox
3. See bug

OBSERVED RESULT
The cursor changes back to the breeze cursor

EXPECTED RESULT
It would still be the sweet-cursor

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: Yes
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.94.0
Qt Version: 5.15.4

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Note that I have rebooted multiple times and it is persistent
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-06-01 19:01:53 UTC 
Are you using X11 or Wayland?
Comment 2 Sam 2022-06-02 04:03:56 UTC 
Wayland.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2022-06-02 14:50:12 UTC 
Can confirm on Wayland. The cursor never changes when hovering over any part of Plasma, even after restarting Plasma.

It works properly on X11 though.
Comment 4 Naxdy 2023-02-12 20:05:00 UTC 
Is this still an issue? Custom cursors work fine for me on Wayland, even on UI elements drawn by plasmashell (panels, trays, desktop, etc.)
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2023-02-13 17:55:58 UTC 
Tested again today and now restarting plasma does apply a new cursor theme to Plasma UI elements.

It still doesn't apply the new cursor theme immediately, though.
Comment 6 Naxdy 2023-02-13 17:59:57 UTC 
That's true, however that's also true on X11. Maybe not for plasmashell (don't remember right now), but for various other applications.

I find that under X11, if I change the cursor theme, it tends to be mixed in which applications accept the new theme immediately and which don't.

Either way, I think the original issue has been resolved at least?
Comment 7 i 2023-02-14 06:29:03 UTC 
please check this page. It solved my issue. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Plasma_cursor_sometimes_shown_incorrectly
Comment 8 Ilya Bizyaev 2023-02-14 09:51:52 UTC 
That's not a fix, that's a hack
Comment 9 Nate Graham 2023-02-14 17:41:16 UTC 
Indeed.

However it's also true that the original bug of the cursor never changing is now fixed. There's a new bug of needing to restart it before changes take effect, which should be filed separately.