Factorio Forums

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):

  Code: Select all

  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:

I have the same issue on Hyprland. You say the issue is fixed on SDL3, but how can I change the SDL used for the factorio?
I used Lutris to install, so I think it's not that hard to do it.

I tried to run it like, hoping that it would use SDL3, but the cursor is still large.
`LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/libSDL3.so.0.1.6:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH ./factorio`

Factorio statically links sdl, so you can't change the version yourself.

To be fair, it wouldn't be possible to use SDL3 even if SDL2 would be dynamically linked. They are essentially different libraries.