hyprland-wiki/pages/Hypr Ecosystem/hyprcursor.md
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title: hyprcursor
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hyprcursor is a new cursor theme format that has many advantages
over the widely used xcursor.
## Hyprcursor themes
You will need to obtain those yourself. If you are on the discord server, see `#hyprcursor-themes`.
Put your theme(s) in `~/.local/share/icons` or `~/.icons`
{{< callout type=warning >}}
It's not recommended to put cursor themes in system-wide `/usr/share/icons` due to
potential permission issues.
{{< /callout >}}
You can set your theme with envvars, or with `hyprctl setcursor`.
Env:
- `HYPRCURSOR_THEME` controls the theme.
- `HYPRCURSOR_SIZE` controls the cursor size.
example snippet of `hyprland.conf`:
```ini
env = HYPRCURSOR_THEME,MyCursor
env = HYPRCURSOR_SIZE,24
```
## Creating / Porting Themes
Go to the [hyprcursor repo](https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprcursor)
See the `docs/` and `hyprcursor-util/` directories for instructions.
## Important notes
Although many apps support server-side cursors (e.g. qt, chromium, electron, hypr ecosystem)
some apps still don't (like gtk)
Apps that do not support server-side cursors and hyprcursor will still fall back to XCursor.
For those apps, you need to export `XCURSOR_THEME` and `XCURSOR_SIZE` to a valid XCursor theme,
and run `gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-theme 'THEME_NAME'` for gtk.
If the app is a flatpak, run `flatpak override --env=~/.themes:ro --env=~/.icons:ro --user` and put
your themes in both `/usr/share/themes` and `~/.themes`, and put your
icons and XCursors in both `/usr/share/icons` and `~/.icons`.
## I don't want to use hyprcursor
If you don't have any hyprcursor themes installed, hyprland will fall back to XCursor, and use
whatever you define with `XCURSOR_THEME` and `XCURSOR_SIZE`.