Curious about what that broken-cursor thing was about. Anybody know?
this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2025
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Looking at the changes lists many Wayland patches: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/tree/master/patches/wine-hotfixes/pending/wine-wayland
Searching through that list for "cursor" returned 3 results.
- https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/blob/master/patches/wine-hotfixes/pending/wine-wayland/0014-winewayland-Implement-SetCursorPos-via-pointer-lock.patch
- https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/blob/master/patches/wine-hotfixes/pending/wine-wayland/0017-winewayland-Treat-fully-transparent-cursors-as-hidde.patch
- https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/blob/master/patches/wine-hotfixes/pending/wine-wayland/0030-cursor-shape-v1.patch
Here's the pull requests on the WINE HQ GitLab.
They'll probably see plenty of Wayland issues now that support is available.