Desktop: draw the cursor into the desktop's own frames

On the Vulkan (and GLES) desktop the pointer worked - panel buttons lit up under it - but no cursor was drawn. wlroots' wayland backend hands the cursor to the parent compositor as a wl_pointer cursor surface, and the app's compositor never draws those. WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS=1 makes labwc composite it itself (device-tested on the Vulkan desktop). Still overridable from the session environment.
2026-10-14 19:27:09 -04:00 · 2026-09-27 11:49:42 -04:00
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@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ if [ -n "${BL_DEBUG_DIR:-}" ]; then
  echo "== droiddeck-desktop $(date -u '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S UTC') renderer=$WLR_RENDERER"
 fi
 export WLR_BACKENDS=wayland
+# The app's compositor draws no wl_pointer cursor surfaces, so a cursor wlroots hands to its
+# parent ("hardware" cursor on the wayland backend) never shows - on the GPU renderers the whole
+# cursor was missing. Draw it into the desktop's own frames instead.
+export WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS=${WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS:-1}
 mkdir -p "$HOME/.config/labwc" "$HOME/.config/lxqt"
 # Our defaults for labwc and the panel, refreshed every session. What a user changes in the
 # panel's own settings lands in panel.conf and is kept; only rc.xml and autostart are ours.