Cursor scale issue on Gnome Wayland

[bigkrp]

Describe the Bug

An annoying issue with the mouse-cursor scale on Linux desktop.

Steps to Reproduce

Launch or integrate and launch Cursor IDE

Expected Behavior

Mouse cursor scales properly according to the gnome settings

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

Linux

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.4.3
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: e50823e9ded15fddfd743c7122b4724130c25df0
Date: 2025-08-08T17:34:53.060Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.15.9-201.fc42.x86_64

Additional Information

With prev version, adding DESKTOPINTEGRATION=1 into exec params resolved the issue, now - doesn’t

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

[sanjeed5 (Sanjeed)]

Thanks for reporting this. Can you please update to the latest version and test if the scaling issue persists?

[bigkrp]

Hi, thank you for the answer!
There are no updates.

[bigkrp]

The issue still exists

[Imre]

I reported this yesterday: Fedora 42 Cursor AppImage has a tiny mouse cursor, but it is the same issue. Apologies for the duplicate, but this issue indeed still exists

[bigkrp]

Version 1.5.5, VSCode Version 1.99.3, issue is still relevant

[bigkrp]

Version 1.5.11, still relevant

[deanrie]

Thanks for the info. We’re still working on it, and version 1.6, which might fix this, will be available soon.

[bigkrp]

Version 1.6.27, same issue, small cursor. In VS Code and other Electron-based apps, there is no such issue.

[bigkrp]

Version 1.7.23, issue still here

[bigkrp]

Version 1.7.44, issue still here

[bigkrp]

Version 2.0.38 issue still exist