[SOLVED] Cursor gone in compositor for Wayland, help

t0mate · 2024-01-28 20:01:56

So, I'm a new Arch user, I just started installing it last week. Until now I worked out problem after problem with my installation. Just when I thought I was finished, my cursor is gone.
It happened after I installed KDE plasma, deleted it mostly (because it was slow) and reinstalled wio, a compositor. Now in wio, there's no cursor. I can click around and move things and stuff, but I can't see where the cursor is right now. Please give me possible solutions for this problem, thank you for reading:

Last edited by t0mate (2024-01-29 19:35:36)

WorMzy · 2024-01-28 20:17:01

Mod note: Moving to AUR Issues.

seth · 2024-01-28 21:24:01

https://community.kde.org/KWin/Environm … _SW_CURSOR

t0mate · 2024-01-28 22:26:25

Thank you. I tried this https://www.reddit.com/r/kdeneon/commen … are_button, and with and without "export" in front of the environment variable. I executed "pkill wio" in wio after modifying the file in path "/etc/environment" and rerun "wio" in the console, then rebooted and rerun "wio". It didn't work. I noticed, you did post other links under your main link. Should I check them out too?

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seth · 2024-01-28 22:32:52

No, that's my signature holding some usual errors.

Whether or not that file gets sourced for the environment depends, please check

tr '\0' '\n' < /proc/$(pidof kwin_wayland)/environ | grep -i cursor

to see whether and what actually gets applied.
Notably, wtf is "wio"? Doesn't seem to be in the repos?

Also please don't paraphrase citing other threads, always post *exactly* what you did. You're often just one copypaste error away…

t0mate · 2024-01-29 01:18:07

My post, which I've worked roughly 1 hour on has disappeared when reloading the page. No worries, I will write it again from memory:

Thank you for your reply. Wio is a AUR, wlroots-based, stacking, wayland compositor, I found under the url: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland#Stacking.

If it helps, for testing I additionally installed another AUR, wlroots-based, stacking, wayland compositor named hikari and run it with "hikari", it worked, the cursor was visible there (, I don't know how to use hikari, not even opening a terminal or exiting the compositor I know without manually rebooting).
So there must be a problem in the configuration of wio or the compositor itself is corrupt.

Now to the topic, I did as suggested:
I executed your command "tr '\0' '\n' < /proc/$(pidof kwin_wayland)/environ | grep -i cursor" and the output was "zsh: no such file or directory: /proc//environ". I checked if the error was correct with "ls -a /proc" and there wasn't anything similar to "environ" or "/environ".

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To be complete, my previous steps, detailed: I edited the file "environment" with "doas vi /etc/environment" and added on a new line "export KWIN_FORCE_SW_CURSOR=1", wrote and quit with ":wq", to apply the environment variables system-wide. Then I updated AUR with "doas pacman -Syyu" (, even tough I just installed wio). At last I rebooted with "reboot". After the reboot I've run wio with "wio" and the issue still persisted.

Before, I've also tried (, in descending order):
"KWIN_FORCE_SW_CURSOR=1"
"export KWIN_FORCE_SW_CURSOR"
"KWIN_FORCE_SW_CURSOR"

I really want to use wio. And fixing this issue will help me with other compositors too, unless wio is really corrupted. What do I do?

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Only documentation I could find regarding wio:
https://gitlab.com/Rubo/wio

There's also this video, restored from the wayback machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20231216094 … oject.org/

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seth · 2024-01-29 07:36:52

Ah sorry, I stopped reading your OP after "installed plasma"…
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Sway#No_visible_cursor

Please remove the oversized image

t0mate · 2024-01-29 12:50:56

Thanks @seth! It worked!
Maybe should have read this first.

For anyone looking for the solution...
In the console I entered:

"export WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS=1 wio"

Then I've run wio with "wio".

Alternatively, I think you can add this line to the file "/etc/environment" to apply it system-wide.

seth · 2024-01-29 15:46:00

\o/
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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