Re: wayland desktop mouse cursor size

On 2026-03-06 15:14 -05:00 EST, "Jan Beich" <[email protected]> wrote:
> (x11@ may still be better than questions@ for Wayland stuff)
> 
> <[email protected]> writes:
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>> I'm having trouble with mouse cursor size. On my 14" 2650x1600 display,
>> the mouse cursor is about half a terminal character in height. The
>> wayland compositor I'm using, labwc, recommends to set the size with the
>> XCURSOR_SIZE environment variable, however this does nothing on my box.
>> I am not using moused with `moused_nondefault_enable="NO"` in rc.conf.
> 
> Did you set XCURSOR_THEME as well? Setting XCURSOR_SIZE alone is illegal.

Ah! That did it! Thank you so much. I didn't see this in the doc, so I made a pull upstream:

https://github.com/labwc/labwc/pull/3427

>> Anyone know how this works?
> 
> Depends on app. There're 3 ways cursors are set:
> - by client (default, via XCURSOR_SIZE + XCURSOR_THEME)
> - by server (cursor-shape-v1 protocol, via compositor config)
> - by xwayland (via Xcursor.size + Xcursor.theme in ~/.Xdefaults or xrdb)
> 
> See also https://blogs.kde.org/2024/10/09/cursor-size-problems-in-wayland-explained/

Nice!

Thanks again,
Alex