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Wayland: cursor not tracked in capture (discard_cursor_telemetry), cursor-highlight degraded #94

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@EtienneLescot

Reported on v1.7.0-rc.1, Linux Wayland, Intel iGPU.

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discard_cursor_telemetry error during capture; cursor metadata is dropped.

Assessment

Wayland restricts global cursor tracking by design (clients can't read the pointer position outside their own surfaces), so the capturer discards cursor telemetry. This is a platform limitation affecting the cursor-highlight feature, not a command-line flag fix.

Options

  • Graceful degrade: detect Wayland and disable/hide cursor-highlight rather than erroring.
  • Investigate whether the PipeWire portal exposes cursor mode (embedded/metadata/hidden) we can request via the capture constraints.

Own issue, independent of #91 and the fps issue.

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