Cursors not updating properly in KDE
The cursor behaviors unpredictably and erratically when i try to change it in the system settings, but it will never change to what i want. The cursor will often switch themes per window whenever I try to change the theme.
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X11 or Wayland?
if you dont know
open a host terminal and enter:
wayland
thx for taking the time to help
yeah i dont know if ill be able to fix it 😅 how did you install the cursor theme?
through the kde settings gui
lemme screenshot
yeah try not to do that with most things here
related to the filesystem question you asked in #🎮bazzite, plasma themes expect mutable traditional linux filesystems
ahh
that clears up a lot
they should probably be installed manually in
~/.local/share/icons but that still may cause issues anyways
some applications that are XWayland also do not like cursor themeshm
so no way to change the freaking cursor?
well you can
😐
oh ohw
how
install it manually but even you'll probably run into issues
here, test this out for me
ok
reboot with X11
open applications with the custom cursor
see if it still has issues
i think a lot of applications running in XWayland break cursor themes but i could be wrong
hm. still having the same erratic behavior
switching to a completely unrelated theme when in newly opened applications
so am i right in assuming immutable distros just have this unfixable problem
looking more into this
😐
it's flatpak related
oh thanks
you may want to open flatseal
and give filesystem access to
~/.icons/:ro
for every application acting erratically
or set it up globallywill try
lmk if that works so i can document it
oh wait you never told me how to change the cursors manually
you download it from pling/kde store (on the website) and extract it to
~/.icons/ok it's already in that directory now what
that's it
im guessing it's more of a flatpak problem though
so i would def try what i said in flatseal
then re-opening the applications
yea
then what
thats it
thats the manual installation
but like do what i said above
the cursor didnt change
did you add the flatseal permission
i did the flatseal thing already
ya
re-opened the problematic application(s)?
just pasting a folder into another folder doesn't seem like it's the complete steps to change the cursor
you can build it manually
but i dont see the point when it's already built
ok
hm
if you really want to have fun with this:
GitHub
GitHub - cyko-themes/gtk-oreo-cursors: oreo-cursors
oreo-cursors. Contribute to cyko-themes/gtk-oreo-cursors development by creating an account on GitHub.
it requires a bunch of packages to the host to be layered
i dont think that would fix anything
do you know for sure that this doesnt have issues on other linux operating systems?
using the same applications as flatpaks?
i havent tried changing the cursor before sorry
anyway uh
you said that i cant use plasma settings to change the cursor right
what do i use then? a termnial command?
no you already did it manually
honestly you can probably use system settings for cursors
it's mostly themes/styles that need to be installed manually
sorry for the confusion
i think the flatseal thing worked a little
the cursor is now oreo in brave and librewolf
but still the hardcoded default in discord
open flatseal again and go to discord
ok done
and under "socket" > toggle on wayland
ok done will restart discord now
ok
this might not work tbh. discord might be garbage at this despite the flatpak being the 'official' linux package
i usually run discord in a browser to avoid other issues with it on linux
ok
this is a certified linux moment
hm.
it happens
personally i use vesktop/armcord but those may be against discord's ToS
hm
so i guess what worked was the flatseal thing
yeah flatpaks usually dont like having permission to your files
not sure what to make of this situation
the applications that worked with your cursor theme before were applications that had permission to your filesystem 😅
desktop linux is in a transitioning phase
that's how it has been for a while now
so everything is a mess while everyone is figuring out whats the best method for everything
but we're getting there
thanks
I thought it was
~/.local/share/iconsHonestly i forget