On Linux either the mouse pointer is not visible or not changing

[hammadmajid]

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On Linux, the mouse pointer either remains invisible or fails to change to other pointers like select or resize. Please see the recording below for a demonstration.

Observation/Reproduction

• The mouse pointer never changes for me.
• The mouse pointer's invisibility appears to be random, I didn't notice any pattern every time pointer went invisible.

Possible similar issue: #13258 ?

Environment

Zed: v0.144.4 (Zed)
OS: Linux Wayland arch unknown
Memory: 7.6 GiB
Architecture: x86_64

If applicable, add mockups / screenshots to help explain present your vision of the feature

Screencast.from.2024-07-20.15-53-00.webm

If applicable, attach your Zed.log file to this issue.

Found relevant logs related to Wayland cursor. Almost 80% of log file is this

Zed.log

2024-07-20T16:02:44.46382699+05:00 [WARN] Linux: Wayland: Unable to get default cursor too!
2024-07-20T16:02:47.480992442+05:00 [WARN] Linux: Wayland: Unable to get default cursor too!
2024-07-20T16:02:53.972211982+05:00 [WARN] Linux: Wayland: Unable to get default cursor too!
2024-07-20T16:02:54.862928516+05:00 [WARN] Linux: Wayland: Unable to get default cursor too!
2024-07-20T16:02:55.435338194+05:00 [WARN] Linux: Wayland: Unable to get default cursor too!
2024-07-20T16:02:55.711079273+05:00 [WARN] Linux: Wayland: Unable to get default cursor too!
2024-07-20T16:03:08.073379479+05:00 [WARN] Linux: Wayland: Unable to get default cursor too!

[ukizet]

I have the same issue (nixos)

[apricotbucket28]

Hmm... it's unable to find any cursors in the cursor theme.

What's the output of gdbus call -e -d org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop -o /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop -m org.freedesktop.portal.Settings.Read '"org.gnome.desktop.interface"' '"cursor-theme"'?

[hammadmajid]

What's the output of gdbus call -e -d org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop -o /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop -m org.freedesktop.portal.Settings.Read '"org.gnome.desktop.interface"' '"cursor-theme"'?

(<<'breeze_cursors'>>,)

[apricotbucket28]

What's the output of gdbus call -e -d org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop -o /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop -m org.freedesktop.portal.Settings.Read '"org.gnome.desktop.interface"' '"cursor-theme"'?

(<<'breeze_cursors'>>,)

That's definitely an issue. From your video it seems like the rest of your desktop is using the default Gnome cursors, but your cursor theme is set to the KDE one. Could you install Gnome Tweaks and change the cursor theme back to the Adwaita one?

[hammadmajid]

I didn't change anything in Gnome tweaks as cursor was already set to Adwaita (default) but I did run this command

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-theme 'Adwaita'

And that seems to fix the issue I guess

Screencast.from.2024-07-22.17-33-38.webm

...your cursor theme is set to the KDE one.

For context I was using KDE Plasma 6 a week ago and then I switched to Gnome

[megatux]

Same issue here, Wayland Nobara Linux w/breeze_cursors, changing it back to 'Adwaita' fixed the issue.

For me, the issue was about not updating the cursor when entering inside the editor window. The former cursor icon was kept, most of the times, the resize-window icon.