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#1 2023-06-16 20:35:13
- farima4
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Is it possible to force the cursor to be visible?
Like the title says I want to force the cursor to be visible even when an app tries to hide it. The solution can be on both xorg or wayland as I use both anyways and I only need it for one specific purpose.
Basically the exact issue I'm having is when I try to play a game (specifically Drakensang Online) using wine or proton, the in-game custom cursor stays in place instead of following the actual cursor (which becomes hidden so I can't really see what I'm doing).
The problem seems simple but I couldn't find much info on it myself. And if it isn't possible maybe some workarounds can help. Either way thanks in advance!
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#2 2023-06-17 07:23:42
- seth
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Re: Is it possible to force the cursor to be visible?
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47386
It'd depend a lot on what wine is doing there to hide the cursor (set a blank pixmap cursor, use xfixes to hide it) but as a general workaround you could eg.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/find-cursor
find-cursor -f -r0 -s8 -l8 -w500 -c dodgerblueOffline
#3 2023-06-17 11:28:38
- farima4
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Re: Is it possible to force the cursor to be visible?
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47386
It'd depend a lot on what wine is doing there to hide the cursor (set a blank pixmap cursor, use xfixes to hide it) but as a general workaround you could eg.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/find-cursor
find-cursor -f -r0 -s8 -l8 -w500 -c dodgerblue
I tried it out and it is promising, just have to tweak it a bit to my liking. Thanks a lot!
UPDATE: I made the cursor a bit bigger. Then I made a bash script run the find-cursor command as well as the game and now it works perfectly. Thanks again I guess!
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#4 2023-06-17 12:38:07
- seth
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Re: Is it possible to force the cursor to be visible?
Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.
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