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weight: 5
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title: hyprcursor
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---
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hyprcursor is a new cursor theme format that has many advantages
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over the widely used xcursor.
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## Hyprcursor themes
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You will need to obtain those yourself. If you are on the Discord server, see
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`#hyprcursor-themes`.
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Put your theme(s) in `~/.local/share/icons` or `~/.icons`
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{{< callout type=warning >}}
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It's not recommended to put cursor themes in system-wide `/usr/share/icons` due
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to potential permission issues.
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{{< /callout >}}
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You can set your theme with envvars, or with `hyprctl setcursor`.
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Env:
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- `HYPRCURSOR_THEME` controls the theme.
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- `HYPRCURSOR_SIZE` controls the cursor size.
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example snippet of `hyprland.conf`:
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```ini
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env = HYPRCURSOR_THEME,MyCursor
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env = HYPRCURSOR_SIZE,24
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```
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## Creating / Porting Themes
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Go to the [hyprcursor repo](https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprcursor)
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See the `docs/` and `hyprcursor-util/` directories for instructions.
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## Important notes
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Although many apps support server-side cursors (e.g. Qt, Chromium, Electron,
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Hypr Ecosystem) some apps still don't (e.g. GTK).
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Apps that do not support server-side cursors and hyprcursor will still fall back
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to XCursor.
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For those apps, you need to export `XCURSOR_THEME` and `XCURSOR_SIZE` to a valid
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XCursor theme, and run `gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-theme
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'THEME_NAME'` for gtk. If `gsettings` schemas are not available to you (e.g. on
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NixOS you will get `No schemas installed`), you can run instead: `dconf write
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/org/gnome/desktop/interface/cursor-theme "'THEME_NAME'"`.
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If the app is a flatpak, run `flatpak override --filesystem=~/.themes:ro
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--filesystem=~/.icons:ro --user` and put your themes in both `/usr/share/themes`
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and `~/.themes`, and put your icons and XCursors in both `/usr/share/icons`
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and `~/.icons`.
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## I don't want to use hyprcursor
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If you don't have any hyprcursor themes installed, Hyprland will fall back to XCursor, and use
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whatever you define with `XCURSOR_THEME` and `XCURSOR_SIZE`.
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