Re: [hatari-devel] Mouse pointer issue (X11/Wayland)

[Christer Solskogen <christer.solskogen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 11:26 PM Uwe Seimet <Uwe.Seimet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Eero,
>
> > On 3.9.2024 17.41, Uwe Seimet wrote:
> > > After upgrading to KDE 6 and Wayland (with Gentoo Linux you have to do both
> > > updates in the same step) there is a new mouse pointer problem. I guess it's
> > > related to Wayland, not to KDE 6.
> >
> > Did you upgrade also your SDL version?
>
> The version installed is the standard version for the current Gentoo Linux.
> It has not changed with the KDE Plasma update and is still version 2.28.5,
> like before.
>
> > ...as Hatari mouse works fine for me under Gnome / Wayland (with current
> > Hatari Git version).
>
> Then it's maybe different when using KDE. That it's Wayland that makes the
> difference was just a guess. I could also depend on KDE or on both.
> Hatari was also working fine for you without Thomas's patch, wasn't it?
>
> > Please check also with some other desktop / Wayland compositor.
>
> :) I am not going to start experimenting with other desktops.
>

This *might* have to do with the fact that SDL2 prefers X11 even if
run under Wayland.
That means that if Xwayland is running, SDL2 uses that. You could try,
for debugging purposes, install a simple wayland compositor like
weston and force it to not start Xwayland, and see if the problem
still exists.

-- 
chs