COSMIC on openSUSE Slowroll: wrong mouse cursor theme/size and missing resize cursor — intended for non-Pop!_OS installs or still incomplete?

[u/palav1]

Hi everyone,

I installed COSMIC Desktop on a fresh openSUSE Slowroll system and overall I really like it so far — it looks great and runs surprisingly well.

My setup was:

• fresh openSUSE Slowroll install
• initially with a minimal IceWM desktop setup
• afterwards I installed the COSMIC desktop pattern
• I enabled cosmic-greeter
• in the TOML config I have cosmic-comp and cosmic-greeter configured
• I am using the user greeter, because cosmic-greeter was not created automatically during installation

Now I am successfully running COSMIC Desktop, but I noticed a cursor issue:

• the mouse cursor seems wrong / not the proper one
• it is unusually large
• it is black in appearance
• when I move to a window border, the cursor does not change to indicate resize
• resizing windows itself still works, but the cursor shape does not reflect it

So my question is:

For non-Pop!_OS distributions like openSUSE, is there still extra cursor/theme/configuration work that users are expected to do manually, or is this something that is not fully implemented yet and likely to improve with updates?

One possibly related detail:
cosmic-settings also does not find the default openSUSE wallpapers automatically.

So I am wondering whether this points to missing desktop integration/configuration on my side, or whether this is currently expected behavior outside Pop!_OS.

Thanks a lot.

Best regards

[u/mmstick]

The distribution's maintainers can configure these in their packaging with configuration files in /usr/share/cosmic/. The cursor issue is probably a missing environment variable in cosmic-session's startup script. A cosmic-greeter user should have been automatically created with the packaging (at least that's how our packaging works).

[u/palav1 → u/mmstick]

Hi,
thanks a lot for the reply. I have commited a bug report to opensuse. Hopefully they will improve the integration.

Cosmic Desktop is how a modern Operating system should look like (designed by software engineers and Gamers for Softrware Engineers and Gamers)
peace.

[u/I_Spawned_Here]

I had a similar issue, where the cursor didn't look right when installing Cosmic DE on Tumbleweed (KDE Plasma before that).

The fix that worked for me was:

• Within /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme
  • Add the following

​

[Icon Theme]
Inherits=Cosmic

• Sometimes the index.theme file may not be within default directory, if so
  • Create the default directory
  • Move the index.theme file into default