I'm using the default "Breeze" cursor theme. Today I updated to 5.3 (on Arch Linux) and now I get the default (and ugly) X mouse cursor every time I hover over a window titlebar or the desktop. As soon as I move the cursor inside a window or a panel, the cursor immediately turns into a breeze themed cursor.

This could be a distribution specific problem, but I thought I'd ask here first. I guess this is a KWin "problem", but if not please feel free to move this to the appropriate sub-forum.

I looked through the System Settings and the only place where one can define a cursor theme seems to be "Workplace -> Cursor theme". I didn't find any KWin specific option. I looked in "~/.config/kwinrc" as well but didn't see anything with regards to mouse cursors.

Any ideas what the problem could be?

I also asked around on the Arch forums and got redirected to this post: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 8#p1520058
That fixed it for me

Here's the solution without opening that link:

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sudo nano /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme
[Icon Theme]
#Inherits=Adwaita
Inherits=breeze_cursors


It sounds to me like Arch did a an error in packaging. Can you please provide the output of:
qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin supportInformation

Hi Martin,

here is the output: http://pastebin.com/Eg6L2Uku

Shall I report this in the Arch bug tracker? Perhaps it has already been reported, I'll have to check.

No, the packaging is fine. The only thing would be to have the default theme inherit breeze_cursors, that was e.g. the root problem on Kubuntu for this problem. But I do not know whether Arch wants to set breeze as the default cursor theme.