Changing SDDM mouse cursor in Plasma 6.6 (story)

Hi, I am currently using Arch Linux with Plasma 6.6, 4th cumulative update (6.6.4). I am using the so-called “Kasane Teto cursors” cursor (which lies on ~/.icons).

Right after I’ve installed the cursor theme, I installed sddm-kcm, (no

te that I am in Vietnamese mode) then went to ‘Thiết lập hệ thống => Colors & Themes => Login Screen (SDDM)’ and clicked on ‘Apply Plasma Settings…’. After applying, I’d just realized that only the font was changed, but the cursor wasn’t.

What I tried:

Identify where the cursor is: find /usr/share/icons ~/.local/share/icons ~/.icons -type d -name "cursors"
/usr/share/icons/KDE_Classic/cursors
/usr/share/icons/Oxygen_Black/cursors
/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/cursors
/usr/share/icons/kasane-teto-cursors/cursors
/usr/share/icons/Oxygen_White/cursors
/usr/share/icons/Oxygen_Yellow/cursors
/usr/share/icons/Oxygen_Zion/cursors
/usr/share/icons/Oxygen_Blue/cursors
/usr/share/icons/Breeze_Light/cursors
/usr/share/icons/breeze_cursors/cursors
/home/tokuruuwu/.icons/Hatsune-Miku/cursors
/home/tokuruuwu/.icons/kasane-teto-cursors/cursors <= here
/home/tokuruuwu/.icons/miku-cursor-linux/cursors
2.

Copy the cursor theme: sudo cp -r /home/tokuruuwu/.icons/kasane-teto-cursors/ /usr/share/icons
3. Verify that the theme is already in /usr/share/icons: ls /usr/share/icons
Adwaita/ breeze-dark/ HighContrast/ oxygen/ Oxygen_Yellow/ ubuntu-mono-light/
AdwaitaLegacy/ Breeze_Light/ kasane-teto-cursors/ Oxygen_Black/ Oxygen_Zion/
breeze/ default/ KDE_Classic/ Oxygen_Blue/ tlauncher.png*
breeze_cursors/ hicolor/ locolor/ Oxygen_White/ ubuntu-mono-dark/
4. Log out and log back in.

After logging out, I cheered so loudly because in the black screen (before the sddm is loaded), the cursor appears as Kasane Teto.

But then it was too early :pensive_face:. I realized that my SDDM cursor is still the default Adwaita cursor.

Can you tell me how I can fix this?

On login screen settings (in settings) be sure to click “Apply Plasma Settings” at the top upper right. All settings will be preserved and seen on your login screen. Hope that helps.

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