Large mouse curson on ptyxis on aurora-nvidia

Hey,

I have super large cursor on ptyxis (pixelated, looks like it is scaled up 2-3x). I tried also fresh user (with pre-genereated home config) and it is the same.

For now only ptyxis is this, probably something to do with wayland/xwayland/gtk scaling. Any idea where to start looking?

On Bluefin it is fine.

I noticed this the other day on Aurora-dx (non Nvidia) , but haven’t had the chance to check again or look into it… But definitely spotted it as well!

Is ptyxis a native app or flatpak on Aurora?

It is what comes with it, I think it is native and not through flatpak (I’m not behind that workstation right now to check).

Maybe important note. I installed Bluefin-nvidia first, then SWITCHED (not reinstalled) to Aurora. So there might be some weird config left-over. This is why tested on new user (which gets default config). But could be some system-wide persistent config in /var/etc or something like that.

I think that the issue is known issue on the KDE/GTK side, its been an issue for a while. a gtk update was supposed to fix it but I guess it was only for the gnome side.

I can’t find the bug report on kde/gtk right now so can’t check what is the status.

This one?
https://linux.debian.bugs.dist.narkive.com/oo1uRWQt/bug-1084050-mouse-cursor-oversized-when-over-ptyxis-window-with-display-scaling-enabled

Propably something similiar, atleast it was a GTK bug back then (maybe under a month ago). But I guess there are still issues regarding the KDE + gtk apps.

Does it btw happen on other GTK apps or only Ptyxis?

From what I’ve noticed only ptyxis for now. Firefox, VLC work ok (but I didn’t test exhaustively with others)

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I’m running Aurora on Surface Pro 4 (display scaling 225%) and having this issue for several applications: Terminal, BoxBuddy, Backups, to name a few
Would be nice to have an idea if this is fixable at all.

Apparently this is a KDE bug and I was also able to reproduce this on my Aurora setup. I have been mitigating this by downloading a separate cursor within the Colours & Themes settings :person_shrugging:

This has successfully fixed the issue for me.

Yeah this is sadly a bug with KDE and GTK, nothing I can fix atm sadly. But should be fixed soon I think.