Skip to content

struggling with custom cursor theme #100

Description

@terminalhearted

(maybe not the best place to ask about this but i can't find anyone else with the same issue)

dir structure for my cursor is ~/.local/share/icons/dnb. /dnb contains manifest.hl (below) and /hyprcursor

name = dnb
description = dnb
version = 0.1
cursors_directory = hyprcursor

/dnb/hyprcursor contains one 32x32px png (image32.png) and meta.hl (below)

resize_algorithm = bilinear
hotspot_x = 0
hotspot_y = 0
nominal_size = 1
define_override = arrow;pointer;default
define_size = 32,image32.png

running hyprcursor-util -c ~/.local/share/icons/dnb prints Failed: couldn't parse meta: Invalid meta (missing?)
running hyprctl setcursor dnb prints size not int

no idea what could be causing this issue since hyprcursor is up-to-date and i can't see any glaring issues with the syntax of either hyprlang file

(my uname -a just in case: Linux aspire-t180 6.18.18-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:47:36 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux)

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Type

    No type
    No fields configured for issues without a type.

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions