cursor is always default size when mouse is over the desktop

[Tessa]

Fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04, logged into a fresh KDE session. Increased the cursor size because I'm on a high res display, and noticed that when the mouse is over a window, the cursor size is correct, but when it's over the desktop, it's always the default (tiny) size. This makes it very hard to find on a virtual desktop with few application windows.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: plasma-workspace 4:5.18.5-0ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-42.46-generic 5.4.44
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.4
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Thu Jul 23 22:48:41 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-07-15 (9 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
SourcePackage: plasma-workspace
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Scarlett Gately Moore (scarlettmoore)]

This bug is very old, if it is still an issue please update the bug with info from a supported release.

[Tessa (unit3)]

I believe this is still an issue, given you're running Wayland and HiDPI, as that combo seems to tie cursor config to the scaling of the specific window, not to the desktop as a whole. so it may be unrelated to kwin and more just specific to scaling+wayland.

in any case, I no longer use either KDE or Ubuntu, so I can't verify the bug. like most folks, I've moved to Arch, where bugs get looked at sooner than ~3.5 years after reporting them. 😉

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