Missing cursor in Gnome

4761 · n00b Joined: 08 Mar 2023 Posts: 54

Hey folks,
so I just switched from KDE to Gnome in my Gentoo VM.
What I did was remove the plasma-meta package [1] and changed the profile from 23.0 systemd plasma to 23.0 systemd Gnome.
Afterwards I emerged the gnome-base/gnome metapackage [2] and enabled GDM.

I am using the Wayland session. To my knowledge, each application is responsible for rendering its own cursor and decoration under Wayland correct?
The cursor appears to be a grey-ish rectangle when no application is being focused.
E.g. when I am hovering over the 'Settings' App the cursor is rendered properly, however when I am just on the desktop or in the Overview the rectangle appears again.

Is this a known issue, because a quick search didn't appear to show much.
I also realize that this may be too little information, so if you need any logs, please do let me know so I can provide them.

Thanks in advance!

~4761

fr4nk · n00b Joined: 29 May 2004 Posts: 23 Location: Austria

I had the same issue the other day, and I believe the solution was to set the cursor theme using gnome-tweaks (I set it to Adwaita, the default).

InvisibleRasta · Apprentice Joined: 30 Mar 2011 Posts: 188

It looks like the same problem i am having or similar. I am stuck with the adwaita cursor theme for life.
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1165124-highlight-.html