Bug#1084050: Mouse cursor oversized when over ptyxis window (with display scaling enabled)

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Fri, Oct 4, 2024 at 9:36 AM Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Oct 2024 at 06:09:26 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > I have display scaling enabled (at 150%). When the mouse is over the
> > ptyxis window, the mouse cursor is oversized; it's quite a bit larger
> > than the terminal text, making it harder to aim for the correct line.
>
> This is probably a duplicate of https://bugs.debian.org/1083115 rather
> than a new ptyxis bug: we took some patches from upstream to fix a cursor
> scaling issue in KDE Plasma + Wayland, and they had the side-effect of
> causing the opposite cursor scaling issue in GNOME Shell + Wayland.
>
> You could verify this by comparing with GTK3 apps like gtk-3-examples
> (should all behave the same as Firefox and gnome-terminal), and with GTK4
> apps like gnome-console (kgx) and gtk-4-examples (should all behave the
> same as ptyxis, if my guess is correct).

I'm uploading GTK4 4.16.3 now which should fix the cursor scaling
issue for GNOME.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha