On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 12:08 PM, Aleix Pol <aleix...@kde.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 8:57 PM, Martin Flöser <mgraess...@kde.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Am 8. Mai 2018 17:05:57 MESZ schrieb Aleix Pol <aleix...@kde.org>:
>>>Hi,
>>>I've been looking into getting a consistent cursor look on wayland,
>>>which is specially daunting because of scaling.
>>>
>>>I'd like to look into fixing it for xwayland clients. Would somebody
>>>be able to shed some light into the issue so I can understand it and
>>>fix it?
>>>
>> Xwayland clients use the normal X11 API to set cursors. Xwayland just 
>> forwards them through the Wayland protocol. The env variable for cursor size 
>> is the same on Wayland and X11, so there should not be any difference.
>>
>> I'm not sure what exactly you want to look into. Personally I had the 
>> feeling that apps started to act crazy concerning cursor sizes - on Wayland 
>> and on X11. Normally there just should not be any difference. There's one 
>> env variable controlling it and if all apps would just use it and not do 
>> crazy stuff instead it would just work.
>
> Well, setting the cursor size isn't any useful if you have two
> monitors. I have it configured at resolution-dependent at the moment
> and sometimes I lose my cursor on my high dpi screen.
> If I use something bigger, when I move it to my external monitor I get
> a monstrosity.
>
> David mentioned at the sprint that we maybe should be correcting its
> scale on the kwin size, if it's not being scaled yet.
>
> Aleix

Ping?
Am I not making sense?

Aleix

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