invisible mouse cursor in gamescope

[unicornsandcandies]

Describe the bug

To replicate: Hold steam button and use right touchpad to simulate mouse

Cursor is invisible in every game that doesn't theme it by their own

What did you expect to happen?

I expected mouse cursor to show up, so I can choose options in a game launcher (without using the touchscreen)

Output of rpm-ostree status

State: idle
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck-gnome:stable
                   Digest: sha256:c53a8b7cdb78233b3b13f58a6f770b18a0abb8f6f283e9cf4cf33d3c8f552a74
                  Version: 40.20240712.0 (2024-07-12T04:58:14Z)
          LayeredPackages: plymouth-theme-script
            LocalPackages: pedro-raccoon-1.1-1.1.x86_64

  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck-gnome:stable
                   Digest: sha256:4194afb903fc79b1028d4f3140f694c2a220497678405a72e3de3e3ff3b62b27
                  Version: 40.20240710.0 (2024-07-11T02:46:00Z)
          LayeredPackages: plymouth-theme-script
            LocalPackages: pedro-raccoon-1.1-1.1.x86_64

Hardware

Galileo Steam Deck OLED

Extra information or context

No response

[WuffyTopside]

Same issue in Bazzite Deck KDE on Deck LCD. Might be a problem with the underlying Fedora image. That, or it might be Steam not handling the mouse info properly.

[unicornsandcandies]

Same issue in Bazzite Deck KDE on Deck LCD. Might be a problem with the underlying Fedora image. That, or it might be Steam not handling the mouse info properly.

I don't know if it happened for you but the cursor was weird already for some time. It was black and overly big. Not like the theme I've set in the desktop mode.

[WuffyTopside]

My cursor is fine in desktop mode. People are saying it might be a Wayland issue, so I'm going to test it.

[unicornsandcandies]

My cursor is fine in desktop mode. People are saying it might be a Wayland issue, so I'm going to test it.

Isn't the desktop mode also using Wayland on deck? I mean, I'm on gnome deck and the cursor is fine on the desktop only

[WuffyTopside]

Yes, they both use Wayland. From what I saw, the issue is how Steam talks to Wayland, or something along those lines at least.

[unicornsandcandies]

Update: It works when docked with physical mouse for some weird reason

[WuffyTopside]

Odd. I'm not sure what's going on.

[KyleGospo]

I'm not able to reproduce this problem on my OLED, but I'm running the GNOME image. Let me dig a little bit and I might have questions for you.

[KyleGospo]

Can one of you give me the contents of: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

[WuffyTopside]

Unfortunately, I'm unable to provide file contents of any kind. I ended up just installing Chimera OS because I lack patience and forethought. I apologize.

[unicornsandcandies]

Can one of you give me the contents of: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

deck@fedora:~$ $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
-bash: /gtk-3.0/settings.ini: Nie ma takiego pliku ani katalogu
deck@fedora:~$ cat .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
[Settings]
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=0
deck@fedora:~$

[WuffyTopside]

Here's the contents of ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini from a fresh install. The only change made is to the theme, since my taskbar decided it wanted to play hide-and-seek with me.

[Settings]
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=true
gtk-button-images=true
gtk-cursor-theme-name=breeze_cursors
gtk-cursor-theme-size=24
gtk-decoration-layout=icon:minimize,maximize,close
gtk-enable-animations=true
gtk-font-name=Noto Sans,  11
gtk-icon-theme-name=breeze-dark
gtk-menu-images=true
gtk-modules=colorreload-gtk-module
gtk-primary-button-warps-slider=true
gtk-sound-theme-name=ocean
gtk-toolbar-style=3
gtk-xft-dpi=172032

[jpwchang]

@KyleGospo For the record I'm also on the GNOME image and also seeing this exact problem.

[WuffyTopside]

There's a way to get a cursor until this is fixed. Just switch to desktop mode and launch the games that use a cursor from there.

[jpwchang]

I checked gamescope-stdout.log and found the same libei-related error that was reported over in discord as a possible clue:

[gamescope] [Error] wlserver: Gamescope built without libei, XTEST will not be available!

[KyleGospo]

I checked gamescope-stdout.log and found the same libei-related error that was reported over in discord as a possible clue:

[gamescope] [Error] wlserver: Gamescope built without libei, XTEST will not be available!

The newest build has this restored. Let me know if updating fixes it for you.

[jpwchang]

@KyleGospo I pasted that log message right after updating to bazzite-deck-gnome 40.20240714.0 this morning. Or is there a newer build than that?

[KyleGospo]

@KyleGospo I pasted that log message right after updating to bazzite-deck-gnome 40.20240714.0 this morning. Or is there a newer build than that?

Turning it back on broke gnome for me, I'm interested in KDE testing.

Seems we're going to have to ship separate solutions for the two for a minute.

[jpwchang]

Makes sense, I'm perfectly happy to wait a while longer since this doesn't really affect my workflow all that much. The more important point was that I just wanted to flag the fact that this evidently isn't a KDE-only issue!

[WuffyTopside]

I can check KDE when the fix drops. When it does, @ me so I know to check it.

[jpwchang]

Happy to report that after running another update the issue appears resolved, at least here on GNOME! Perhaps @WuffyTopside can confirm on KDE?

Thanks for the quick fix!

[WuffyTopside]

I'm happy to report that the cursor is now visible in Gamescope on KDE! Thanks @jpwchang , and to the whole Bazzite dev team!