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"Support the cursor-shape protocol" merged in GTK (gitlab.gnome.org)

submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This protocol lets Wayland client to ask the compositor to draw the cursor rather than the Wayland client drawing the cursor itself.

Seems like Mutter merged this support a week ago: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3668

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

No, apps are free to use client side cursor decorations if they want to. Games typically do for their custom cursors. Gnome may want to do this, I don’t know.

Also, this protocol is currently only supported in GTK4. Wayland clients using GTK3 don’t have access to it. Chromium uses GTK3 but they added support for it outside of GTK. I don’t think Firefox supports it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

The giant cursor will keep tormenting me for the foreseeable future.