Bug 515919 - Invisible mouse cursor in all wayland applications
Summary: Invisible mouse cursor in all wayland applications
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: kwin
Classification: Plasma
Component: wayland-generic (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.5.5
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWin default assignee
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Reported: 2026-02-12 20:50 UTC by step_riot325
Modified: 2026-02-12 22:15 UTC (History)
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Description step_riot325 2026-02-12 20:50:41 UTC 
SUMMARY

My mouse cursor became invisible after rebooting my laptop, only  working in x11 applications.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Operating System: Fedora Linux 43
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.22.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.18.9-200.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i3-10110U CPU @ 2.10GHz
Memory: 8 GiB of RAM (7.6 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: Intel® UHD Graphics
Manufacturer: HP
Product Name: HP Laptop 15-dw1xxx
System Version: Type1ProductConfigId
Comment 1 step_riot325 2026-02-12 21:18:34 UTC 
f(In reply to step_riot325 from comment #0)
> SUMMARY
> 
> My mouse cursor became invisible after rebooting my laptop, only  working in
> x11 applications.
> 
> SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
> 
> Operating System: Fedora Linux 43
> KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.5
> KDE Frameworks Version: 6.22.0
> Qt Version: 6.10.1
> Kernel Version: 6.18.9-200.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit)
> Graphics Platform: Wayland
> Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i3-10110U CPU @ 2.10GHz
> Memory: 8 GiB of RAM (7.6 GiB usable)
> Graphics Processor: Intel® UHD Graphics
> Manufacturer: HP
> Product Name: HP Laptop 15-dw1xxx
> System Version: Type1ProductConfigId

Also, before I rebooted my laptop, the cursor was stuck in a broken state. Instead of displaying the normal cursor icon, it was stuck in the grab state. 

After rebooting, I could only see the cursor when it was on the edge of a window or on top of the title bar, and it still displayed the grab cursor icon.

like in this screenshot: https://files.catbox.moe/14x06r.png
Comment 2 step_riot325 2026-02-12 22:14:40 UTC 
after looking up some logs I found this error:

Feb 12 23:03:53 hp-laptop kwin_wayland[1500]: Failed to parse "/home/rob/.local/share/icons/breeze_cursors/cursors_scalable/default/metadata.json"

The parse error happens when the metadata.json file is missing. After removing the breeze_cursors folder and rebooting, the mouse cursor started working again.