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This is a guide on hiding the mouse cursor on Wayland. Currently there are no packages in the Raspberry Pi Debian repos for wayfire-plugins-extra, so this guide will build it from source.

Prepare the Environment¶

• Install dependencies:
  

  sudo apt install libglibmm-2.4-dev libglm-dev libxml2-dev libpango1.0-dev libcairo2-dev wayfire-dev libwlroots-dev libwf-config-dev meson ninja-build
  

Build wayfire-plugins-extra¶

• Download and compile plugins:
  

  git clone https://github.com/seffs/wayfire-plugins-extra-raspbian.git && cd wayfire-plugins-extra-raspbian
  meson build --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release
  ninja -C build
  

• Copy the hide-cursor plugin and config to wayfire directories:
  

  sudo cp build/src/libhide-cursor.so /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/wayfire/
  sudo cp metadata/hide-cursor.xml /usr/share/wayfire/metadata/
  

• Edit wayfire user config:
  

  nano ~/.config/wayfire.ini
  

  1. And add the following:
     

     [core]
     plugins = autostart hide-cursor
     

Resources¶

• https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/145382/remove-hide-mouse-cursor-when-idle-on-rasbperry-pi-os-bookworm
• https://github.com/seffs/wayfire-plugins-extra-raspbian
• https://gist.github.com/saper-2/4cba693126ca77c7eb5c8e67e57a5111