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LloydLynx

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Registered: 2021-08-23

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The basic X11 cursor theme is used in Steam games

I'm using XFCE with the Adwaita cursor theme, Papirus icon theme, and Arc GTK theme, all from the Arch repos. I play BeamNG, and starting from the game's launcher into the game, it uses a very Window 9X looking theme and it uses the basic X11 cursor theme, not Adwaita which is the one I want. I've thought of two reasons; WINE/Proton might be the issue, or 32 bit might be the issue. I mostly ruled out 32 bit because BeamNG will quickly surpass 4Gb of RAM. With WINE, I can't find any info about cursor theming. Maybe I just don't know where to look? Tried duckduckgo searching all combos of words relating to configuring the cursor theme in WINE, and I've searched for similar words on the WINE User Guide and came up with nothing useful that I can tell. I also tried manually setting the cursor theme to Adwaita in ".icons/default/index.theme" and ".config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini" as per what the Arch Wiki says about cursor theming. I still just slightly suspect it might have something to do with 32 bit though, since Steam is heavily reliant on 32 bit, especially for Proton games, and that lib32-libxcursor is the only 32 bit cursor related package in the repos. One more thing to mention is that Steam and WINE are installed through the Arch repos. I update my system almost every night that it's used, so it was updated last night, a little less than 24 hours a go. I've had this issue since starting using Arch about a month or so ago.

Ammako

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Registered: 2021-07-16

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Re: The basic X11 cursor theme is used in Steam games

It's Proton. Newer versions run in a standardized containerized Ubuntu environment, which doesn't have any cursor or icon themes included. So the systems falls back to a generic cursor theme.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam- … issues/311

The latest beta version of pressure-vessel attempts to share the cursor theme (and the icon theme) with the host system. (This is harder to achieve than it sounds!)

To check which version you have, look at SteamLinuxRuntime_soldier/VERSIONS.txt. The version that fixes this issue is depot 0.20210907.26 or later.

Please do try to upgrade Steam Linux Runtime - Soldier to its beta branch and report back if anything improved.

Last edited by Ammako (2021-09-12 11:09:41)

LloydLynx

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Registered: 2021-08-23

Posts: 6

Re: The basic X11 cursor theme is used in Steam games

It's Proton. Newer versions run in a standardized containerized Ubuntu environment, which doesn't have any cursor or icon themes included. So the systems falls back to a generic cursor theme.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam- … issues/311

The latest beta version of pressure-vessel attempts to share the cursor theme (and the icon theme) with the host system. (This is harder to achieve than it sounds!)

To check which version you have, look at SteamLinuxRuntime_soldier/VERSIONS.txt. The version that fixes this issue is depot 0.20210907.26 or later.

Please do try to upgrade Steam Linux Runtime - Soldier to its beta branch and report back if anything improved.

Thanks for the reply. I think I'd prefer to stick with stable software, even if it means using a less pretty cursor. It's good to know that it's a known issue that's being worked on. I can wait.

Ammako

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Registered: 2021-07-16

Posts: 267

Re: The basic X11 cursor theme is used in Steam games

This is now live, btw