Mouse Cursor Disappears when idle (Game Mode)

[nicemonkey]

When playing a game that has a mouse cursor in Game Mode, like Age of Empires, the mouse cursor will disappear when the mouse is idle. The mouse cursor will appear again when moved.

The mouse cursor doesn't disappear in desktop mode.

Is there a way to always keep the mouse cursor on screen in Game Mode?

[nicemonkey]

I tried changing over to the BETA channel and had the same result. I didn't see any options to change how the mouse behaves.

[Veica]

My first guess: are you mixing keyboard/mouse bindings with controller bindings? Some games will hide the mouse cursor when they detect controller input.

That being said, I don't recall AoE having controller options but I've never tried it so...

My second guess is the auto-hide is intentional for Game Mode. Some games (eyeing you, Code Vein, and other bad PC ports!) will always display a mouse cursor regardless of if you're using a controller, and it floats above the game and never goes away. Maybe Valve made it auto-hide so that it doesn't interfere with Game Mode stuff? I honestly have no clue.

[nicemonkey]

I think I found the problem. I managed to to find the open programs running and gamescope is running with the --hide-cursor-delay option set to 3000ms. 3 seconds seems consistant to what I've observed.

Is there a way to change this at a system level?

If not, is there a way I can modify the gamescope commands in the launch parameters for a specific game? I've tried using "gamescope --hide-cursor-delay 10000" and the game won't run. I have done this successfully in desktop mode, but I know game mode is different since it already forces everything to run through gamescope.

[TheBridgyC]

Having the same issue, it's not a huge problem but it would be nice to disable this so I can choose to see the mouse even when idle if I want.

[zavchPC]

Any update to this? i wanna play minecraft bedrock PE with PC controls but i don't move my mouse for 3 seconds, the game will glitch and unlock my mouse and detect a controller input in desktop mode

[machi]

still looking for a fix for this :)

[Scroopy]

Having this same issue. Really sad to see no fix yet.

For me the issue is on game mode. I am not even running a game. I am trying to scroll through my library using mouse scroll wheel but if I stop using the mouse for 3 seconds, the mouse cursor disappears. I actually realized that it isn't disappearing, it is relocating to the bottom-right of the screen which is 10x more frustrating.

VALVE PLEASE FIX THIS ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Helljoe]

VALVE PLEASE FIX THIS

[Helljoe]

I assume that this was done for some reason. but on the other hand, you can also make a separate setting, which will either show the cursor always, or hide it after a while. when playing on steamdeck in civilization 6, the periodic disappearance of the cursor is really annoying!

[kramlat]

İlk olarak nicemonkey tarafından gönderildi:

I think I found the problem. I managed to to find the open programs running and gamescope is running with the --hide-cursor-delay option set to 3000ms. 3 seconds seems consistant to what I've observed.

Is there a way to change this at a system level?

If not, is there a way I can modify the gamescope commands in the launch parameters for a specific game? I've tried using "gamescope --hide-cursor-delay 10000" and the game won't run. I have done this successfully in desktop mode, but I know game mode is different since it already forces everything to run through gamescope.

first go into desktop mode, next set the root password, now in a terminal you want to enable write support, next you want to run "sudo nano -w /bin/gamescope-session". WARNING: make sure you are careful editting this file, it is the shell script that starts your gamescope session and any errors can cause gamescope to fail to start requiring you to either chroot from the recovery image and fix the script, or to reimage your steam deck completely.

[Mennenth]

Bumping this.
This needs a fix beyond the user monkeying around with the game scope file in nano.
This impacts a feature in steam input that relies on cursor visibility (automatically swapping between 2 sets, typically to separate in game controller settings from menu controller settings - very useful if using the trackpad or gyro as a mouse so you can have different sensitivities for in game versus menus).
Basically, if the cursor auto hides then it swaps back to the in game set even if you are still in the menu.

As a result, this really needs an easily accessed option to either keep the cursor visible at all times/whenever the game wants it to be, or allow the user to easily set the delay for when it disappears.

[Nickt]

Still no fix?

[Emi]

Bump. There needs to be an official option to turn this off.

[ThisOscar]

Bump. Trying to use the action set feature that relies on mouse visibility, but it disappears.

[JFJohnny5]

How is this still an issue? Using the Dock and a mouse is really frustrating when the mouse cursor keeps vanishing.