KDE 6 Cursor (and Possibly More) Themes Not Applying to All Windows Under Wayland

NuclearDragon · 10 March 2024 06:58

Greetings,

I have recently updated to KDE 6 and have noticed a weird issue with my cursor theme not being applied on top of all windows. As far as I can tell, windows running under XWayland are fine, but many windows running under Wayland do not respect the cursor theme or size. I did find this issue, but it didn’t seem to contain a general solution to this issue. I can’t tell exactly, but it also seems other theme aspects aren’t being correctly applied to various applications and things are going to kde default. So far, I have seen that the cursor theme is not being followed in octopi, any of the garuda apps, kitty, nor firedragon (when using the MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 environment variable). I can provide pictures or more information if need be.

Garuda-inxi:

System:
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    clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
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    resume=UUID=5bb1f004-d544-4ddf-bfac-8a1cf21296d8 loglevel=3 ibt=off
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.0.1 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.0.0
    wm: kwin_wayland with: krunner vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda
    base: Arch Linux
Machine:
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    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 9 serial: <superuser required>
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  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.0.2-arch1.2
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Audio:
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    chip-ID: 8086:0c0c class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio
    vendor: Lenovo 8 driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
    chip-ID: 8086:8c20 class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: NVIDIA GK107 HDMI Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1
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Network:
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  IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
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Bluetooth:
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Drives:
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  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
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Swap:
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Sensors:
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  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.58 GiB used: 4.39 GiB (28.2%)
  Processes: 326 Power: uptime: 9h 13m states: freeze,standby,mem,disk
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  Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1882 libs: 437 tools: octopi,paru pm: flatpak
    pkgs: 0 Compilers: clang: 17.0.6 gcc: 13.2.1 Shell: garuda-inxi
    default: Bash v: 5.2.26 running-in: kitty inxi: 3.3.33
Garuda (2.6.23-1):
  System install date:     2023-12-07
  Last full system update: 2024-03-09 ↻
  Is partially upgraded:   No
  Relevant software:       snapper NetworkManager dracut
  Windows dual boot:       <superuser required>
  Failed units:

dr460nf1r3 · 10 March 2024 09:59

NuclearDragon · 10 March 2024 15:44

Running the listed command after installing the package results in the below error and the command freezes (has to be escaped via ctrl-c):

(/usr/lib/xdg-desktop-portal:598743): xdg-desktop-portal-WARNING **: 11:41:23.440: Choosing gtk.portal for org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Lockdown as a last-resort fallback

(/usr/lib/xdg-desktop-portal:598743): xdg-desktop-portal-WARNING **: 11:41:23.440: The preferred method to match portal implementations to desktop environments is to use the portals.conf(5) configuration file

(/usr/lib/xdg-desktop-portal:598743): xdg-desktop-portal-WARNING **: 11:41:23.561: Failed to create background monitor: Failed to own background monitor D-Bus name

(/usr/lib/xdg-desktop-portal:598743): xdg-desktop-portal-WARNING **: 11:41:23.562: No skeleton to export

NuclearDragon · 10 March 2024 15:50

Interestingly enough, even though the command failed, it fixed the cursor in firedragon (but the other apps are still bugged).

Yada · 11 March 2024 06:51

you could try logging out and logging back in or just restarting.

Seimus · 11 March 2024 09:18

I had the same problem when testing wayland. And before the post on the forum. I found as well a user on Firefox forum >

https://support.mozilla.org/bm/questions/1434500

Basically just installing it, and reload of the system afterwards fixed all the Text rendering weirdness and the cursor problems.

Regards,
S.

NuclearDragon · 11 March 2024 18:43

I tried between reboots and that didn’t fix the issue.

NuclearDragon · 11 March 2024 18:45

This is exactly what I did essentially, I installed through octopi tried the replace command, rebooted, then tried the replace command again and got the same error.

dr460nf1r3 · 11 March 2024 19:05

Can you provide a screenshot of the bugged apps? Which ones are it exactly?

NuclearDragon · 12 March 2024 00:00

I provided a list in my initial post, as to providing screenshots, the only thing that is different is that the cursor seems to be defaulting to the adwaita theme with inconsistent cursor size. I will try to look through more apps to see if I find more.

So far:
The Garuda Apps (welcome, gamer, etc)
Octopi
Kitty terminal
The libreoffice suite

Edit: Also noticed on the sddm login screen.

NuclearDragon · 12 March 2024 02:30

NuclearDragon · 15 March 2024 05:02

Small update, most recent update to kitty v0.33.0 seems to have fixed the cursor issue for this application, the others are still bugged though.

Edit: Most recent update to libreoffice-fresh also fixed the issue there.

RodneyCK · 15 March 2024 21:00

Make sure you are using cursors from the Plasma 6 theme manager and not old ones left over from plasma 5. Same for icons, and probably the rest. It is best just to clear out all the old plasma 5 theming files.

NuclearDragon · 15 March 2024 21:30

Already did, even tried reinstalling the sweet cursors to no effect.

NuclearDragon · 20 March 2024 05:30

@dr460nf1r3

Managed to fix the cursor issue by changing /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme to:

[Icon Theme]
Inherits=Sweet-cursors

which initially was inheriting Adwaita. Something still seems a little off about the appearance of Octopi and the Garuda Apps (may be a qt5 vs qt6 issue?), but thus far a full solution eludes me. This issue may not be an issue on fresh installs (i.e. with wayland/qt6 from the beginning) according to this post from which I obtained my current solution.

Edit: Might be better to put the same config in ~/.icons/default/index.theme instead according to KDE 6.5.6

system · 3 April 2024 05:30

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