Wrong mouse cursor in snap apps such as firefox, chomium, etc.

[kramerstefan]

Snap apps such as firefox do not follow / respect the selected mouse cursor theme. That's quite annoying and should be solved very soon as that issue exists for too long already.

- Kubuntu 22.04
- affects different versions of Firefox, Chromium, etc. (actually all snap apps)
- fix asap or switch back to normal ..deb packaging is required
- unfortunately nothing happened yet

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: firefox 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-28.29~22.04.1-generic 6.5.13
Uname: Linux 6.5.0-28-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Sat May 4 18:22:58 2024
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-02-15 (444 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 20.04.2 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20210204)
Snap.Changes: no changes found
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2023-02-15 (444 days ago)

[Amin Bandali (bandali)]

Per your description, this issue is indeed not firefox-specific, so I'm adding snapd.

I'm not aware of any general solution for this at this time unfortunately, but you should be able to work around it on a case-by-case basis for each snap: symlinking or copying your cursor theme into ~/snap/<snap-name>/current/.local/share/icons/ (e.g. ~/snap/firefox/current/.local/share/icons/ for the Firefox snap) should help.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.