hyprcursor/README.md

hyprcursor

The hyprland cursor format, library and utilities.

Why?

XCursor sucks, and we still use it today.

• Scaling of XCursors is horrible
• XCursor does not support vector cursors
• XCursor is ridiculously space-inefficient

Hyprcursor fixes all three. It's an efficient cursor theme format that doesn't suck as much.

Notable advantages over XCursor

• Automatic scaling according to a configurable, per-cursor method.
• Support for SVG cursors
• Way more space-efficient. As an example, Bibata-XCursor is 44.1MB, while it's 6.6MB in hyprcursor.

Tools

hyprcursor-util

Utility for creating hyprcursor themes. See its readme in hyprcursor-util/

libhyprcursor

The library to use for implementing hyprcursors in your compositor or app.

It provides C and C++ bindings.

Examples

For both C and C++, see tests/.

Docs

See docs/.

TODO

Library:

• Support animated cursors
• Support SVG cursors

Util:

• Support compiling a theme with X
• Support decompiling animated cursors

Building

Deps:

• hyprlang >= 0.4.2
• cairo
• libzip
• librsvg

Build

cmake --no-warn-unused-cli -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr -S . -B ./build
cmake --build ./build --config Release --target all -j`nproc 2>/dev/null || getconf NPROCESSORS_CONF`

Install with:

sudo cmake --install build