No Mouse in games when enabling Gamescope

[Terrorwolf01]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Are you using any gamescope patches or a forked version of gamescope?

• The issue occurs on upstream gamescope without any modifications

Current Behavior

When starting Games like Helldivers2 with gamescope, I see no Mouse Cursor. It works, but getting the Mouse on the right spot without seeing it is pretty hard.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Launch a Game like Helldivers2 or Hitman WoA with the following Launch Options: PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 gamescope -w 3840 -h 2160 -r 144 -f --hdr-enabled -- %command%
2. Observe that you don't have a Mouse ingame.

Hardware information

- Distro: EndeavourOS KDE
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
- Driver Version: 580.105.08

Software information

- Desktop environment: KDE 6.5.4
- Session type: Wayland
- Gamescope version: version 3.16.18 (gcc 15.2.1)
- Gamescope launch command(s): PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 gamescope -w 3840 -h 2160 -r 144 -f --hdr-enabled -- %command%

Which gamescope backends have the issue you are reporting?

• Wayland (default for nested gamescope)
• DRM (default for embedded gamescope, i.e. gamescope-session)
• SDL
• OpenVR

Logging, screenshots, or anything else

No response

[matte-schwartz]

does it only happen with PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND?

[Terrorwolf01]

Issue also happens without PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND and without --hdr-enabled. Just tested.

[SuperioOne]

I've the same issue on HD2 with similar hardware/OS setup, enabling --force-grab-cursor option fixes it for me.

[Terrorwolf01]

I've the same issue on HD2 with similar hardware/OS setup, enabling --force-grab-cursor option fixes it for me.

Thanks. This seems to help at least in Helldivers2.
Will test this Workaround later in other games too.

[RosabBLSTLKR]

- Distro: CachyOS (linux-cachyos 6.18.2-2)
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
- GPU: AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
- Driver Version: mesa 25.3.2

- Desktop environment: Hyprland 52.2
- Session type: Wayland
- Gamescope version: version 3.16.19 (gcc 15.2.1)
- Gamescope launch command(s): gamescope -w 1920 -h 1080 -W 1920 -H 1080 -r 60 -f -- %command%

Can reproduce on World of Tanks. Adding --force-grab-cursor fixes the problem.