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Description

When launching the game under Wayland with KDE Plasma, the game doesn't respect the cursor theme set in the "System Settings" app (under "Colors & Themes" > "Cursors", which sets the user cursor theme) and instead defaults to the global system cursor theme, which usually means a fallback to the adwaita cursor theme. As far as I can tell this issue is specific to KDE Plasma (wayland) in full-screen mode.

Workaround:
Factorio seems to respect the system cursor theme however, so setting "Inherits=" in /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme to the folder name of a cursor theme in /usr/share/icons will fix the issue. This is not the expected way to set cursor themes in KDE Plasma however, and requires root access.

Misc. Info:

• Distro: Arch Linux

• DE: KDE Plasma 6.1.3

• Factorio version: 1.1.109 (build 62320, linux64, steam)

• KDE frameworks version: 6.4.0

• Qt version: 6.7.2

• Kernel version: 6.10.1-zen1-1

• Launch flags (Steam):

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  SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland %command%

I reproduced this on two machines, one running the proprietary nvidia driver (R555), one using integrated intel graphics. I have not tested other desktops.

Let me know if I should provide any additional details!

I can confirm that I can reproduce this.

Distro: NixOS 24.11pre646099.00d80d13810d (Vicuna) x86_64
DE: Plasma 6.1.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.3.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel: 6.6.36

This is an SDL bug that has been fixed in SDL3.

SDL2:
SDL3: