Hardware cursor doesn't update unless mouse is moved

[danielwerg]

$ hyprctl getoption "cursor:no_hardware_cursors" | awk 'NR==1 {print $2}'
1
$ hyprctl --quiet keyword "cursor:no_hardware_cursors" "0"

At this point unless there is mouse input/movement cursor won't update. You might ask how do I know it doesn't update? Well, it doesn't turn blue with hyprsunset on, see hyprwm/hyprsunset#48.

This is important to make a workaround for hyprwm/hyprsunset#48. Idea is that I would only enable hardware cursors while using hyprpicker in color picker script or any other script that needs screen to be frozen, I have several.

hyprctl --quiet keyword "cursor:no_hardware_cursors" "0"
on_exit() {
  no_hardware_cursors_value=$(grep -r "no_hardware_cursors" ~/.config/hypr | awk '{print $NF}')
  [ -z "$no_hardware_cursors_value" ] && no_hardware_cursors_value="1"
  hyprctl --quiet keyword "cursor:no_hardware_cursors" "$no_hardware_cursors_value"
}
trap on_exit EXIT

My current workaround is to call sudo ydotool mousemove -x 1 -y 0 && sudo ydotool mousemove -x -1 -y 0 after enabling hardware cursor but this requires to run ydotoold and I don't use this tool for anything else. Ideally this should be done with hyprctl alone.