Wire's Native Cursor

Wire's Native Cursor replaces Valheim's custom pointer behavior with the native/system cursor language of the desktop OS.

Supported platforms

Windows

Uses the real Win32 system cursors through user32 and the existing WM_SETCURSOR compensation path.

macOS

Uses AppKit NSCursor directly:

• Arrow
• Pointing Hand
• I-beam
• Closed Hand for drag/move
• native horizontal/vertical resize
• Crosshair
• native busy/progress cursor where exposed by macOS

Linux

Loads the user's actual Xcursor theme images through libXcursor, then gives those native-theme cursor images to Unity's hardware cursor API. This avoids tying the implementation to an X11 window and works with X11, XWayland and native Wayland Unity sessions.

Linux supports theme-provided animation for Working/Wait cursors.

Shared behavior

• ordinary background/non-interactive UI: Arrow
• buttons and inventory slots: Hand
• text fields: I-beam
• carrying an inventory item: Move/Grab equivalent native cursor
• sliders/scrollbars: horizontal or vertical resize
• large map: Crosshair
• map drag: Move/Grab
• crafting: Working/Progress
• loading/waiting: Wait

Valheim remains responsible for whether the cursor is visible and whether it is locked. The mod only chooses its native/system appearance.