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

Josh Triplett josh at joshtriplett.org
Mon Oct 7 00:24:29 BST 2024


On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 15:43:47 -0400 =?UTF-8?Q?Jeremy_B=C3=ADcha?= <jeremy.bicha at canonical.com> wrote:
> 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.

Confirming that this fixes the problem. Thank you!



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