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hey you Arch guys, this is my first time in here ..
i've installed Arch on Qemu ( after 1 year of using Debian ) and tried to jump into Hyprland so i've got a dotfiles package and just went from there .. everything works just fine except for my sddm catpuccin theme which is acting a bit weird as whenever i log in i start to get a cursor-like (+) hovering over my cursor !! i dont have that issue when i switch to cosmic-greeter though , .. anyone has ever faced same issue ? i'd like to get some help after spending 2 days fighting with .config files and couldn't get anywhere ..
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How did you install catpuccin-cursors? Have you tried purging any existing installation and installing the AUR package? See https://github.com/catppuccin/cursors?t … arch-linux
I'm assuming you have set the sddm cursor theme as specified in the manual: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#Mouse_cursor
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hey sfn! thanks for your reply ..
i've installed catppuccin theme through their github repo .. i simply cloned it and followed the steps they've provided to config it ! i believe it's an sddm related issue because i've already purged the catppuccin theme whole config and tried to use only sddm package installed with pacman .. i got the same issue which is confusing !!
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Hm. after a quick google this seems like an open issue with sddm: https://www.reddit.com/r/hyprland/comme … fter_sddm/ https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/422. Someone in the reditt post solved it with xorg-setroot
You might also have some luck configuring hyprland's cursor theme, check out the FAQ: https://wiki.hypr.land/FAQ/#how-do-i-ch … use-cursor
Otherwise, looks like you're probably stuck with it if you really want to use sddm. (If you like hyprland, you might like greetd + greetd-regreet, but that's my personal choice)
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i really appreciate your help
even the solution mentioned in the subreddit didn't work for me , the cross shaped cursor didn't disappear it just turned into a typical cursor hoverig over my customized ( mylinuxforwork hyprland dotfiles configuation) , i just disabled sddm again a get back to cosmic-greeter .. i guess i'm done with sddm , i'm gonna try with anothr DM if i got lucky with anyone that works fine with wayland ..
Again i really appreciate your dedicated time .. i'll keep u posted if i got lucky with a solution . have a good one dude !
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turned into a typical cursor
Since you removed the catpuccin cursor config(and the pkg itself probably), sounds like it fell back into the default Adwaita cursor.
Last edited by Erwin Iosef (2026-01-10 08:04:13)
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