Hyprland: cursor disappears on some apps

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According to NVidia – Hyprland Wiki:

Previously used WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS environment variable has been deprecated. Do not set it in your configs. Use cursor:no_hardware_cursors instead.

So you should give that a try.

There is also a home.pointerCursor.hyprcursor option that might help.

Edit: This issue might be specific to your current cursor theme as according to the latest catppuccin-cursors-1.0.2 release:

This release should resolve all the issues raised on Hyprland as we are distributing SVGs (again) in the zip.

The update has already been backported to release-24.11, but I think you’ll have to use an overlay until it’s available in nixos-24.11:

nixpkgs.overlays = [
  (final: prev: {
    catppuccin-cursors = prev.catppuccin-cursors.overrideAttrs (oldAttrs: rec {
      version = "1.0.2";
      src = final.fetchFromGitHub {
        owner = "catppuccin";
        repo = "cursors";
        rev = "v${version}";
        hash = "sha256-Mm0fRh/Shem65E/Cl0yyw+efEHOEt/OJ+MzL+3Mcbwc=";
      };
      nativeBuildInputs = oldAttrs.nativeBuildInputs ++ [ pkgs.zip ];
      buildPhase = ''
        runHook preBuild
        patchShebangs .
        just all
        runHook postBuild
      '';
    });
  })
];

I’m using Gnome too and I used to have this issue with either Wezterm or Kitty, but I don’t remember how I exactly solved it. It might have been home.pointerCursor.

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