Cursor not resetting when entering window

[baodrate]

I have an overlay window with a TouchArea with mouse-cursor: MouseCursor.default. The issue is the cursor that was set before the window spawns stays in place even after interacting with the overlay window.

e.g.:

• I am hovering over text in firefox
• My app's overlay window spawns near my cursor
• I hover over the window and click on it
• The mouse cursor stays as a text-select cursor the entire time

I inexperienced with slint/wayland, but I think the issue is in this conditional:

Spell/spell-framework/src/wayland_adapter/way_helper.rs

Lines 158 to 162 in 497ee55

	pub fn update_cursor(&mut self, mouse_cursor: MouseCursor, queue: &QueueHandle<SpellWin>) {
	if self.last_cursor_enter_serial.is_some()
	&& self.pointer.is_some()
	&& mouse_cursor != self.current_wayland_cursor
	{

but current_wayland_cursor gets initialized to MouseCursor::Default:

Spell/spell-framework/src/wayland_adapter.rs

Lines 178 to 184 in 497ee55

	let pointer_state = PointerState {
	pointer: None,
	pointer_data: None,
	cursor_shape: cursor_manager,
	current_wayland_cursor: MouseCursor::Default,
	last_cursor_enter_serial: None,
	};

so update_cursor() always skips if we're going from non-default -> default cursor.

I think the condition should be amended to (or separated out) so that the cursor update occurs once the first time update_cursor() is called per window (app?)

Alternatively, would it be possible to grab the actual cursor type instead of initializing it to default? I assumed this isn't feasible (didn't check very hard), and I'm not sure it's the cleaner fix anyways

[dotsem]

Could you maybe provide a short video/gif about this issue?

[VimYoung]

I think e274e1e resolves this issue too. Reopen if required.

[baodrate]

I don't have permissions to re-open this issue, but this is still relevant. repro is at https://github.com/baodrate/spell-framework-cursor-repro (targeting spell-framework commit e70132e)

recording of repro:

recording.mp4

Changed default to crosshair to demonstrate that it only affects the default cursor:

recording.mp4

[dotsem]

Strange, I cloned your repo and it seems to work fine for me. Could you give some more details? Like which WM do you use?

2026-06-15.22-17-24.mp4

[baodrate]

hmm. odd. I'm using sway (v1.12). I'll set up hyprland or niri and see if I can reproduce it there

[VimYoung]

I just confirmed that the issue exists in sway( v1.12) but not in niri and hyprland.