GNOME Finally Supports Wayland Server Side Cursors!!

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Published on March 6, 2025 8:00:31 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq5CB9CNED0

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I've been a big fan of server side cursors for a while and GNOME didn't initially want to introduce the protocol but that's changed and now things can finally progress.

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Original Wayland MR: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/194
GTK MR: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/6212
Mutter MR: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/3276
Cursor Shape Issues: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/issues/185
W3C Changes: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/10115
Protocol Improvements: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/294
GNOME Shell MR: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/3622

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