https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE
Plasma cursor sometimes shown incorrectly
Create the directory ~/.icons/default and inside a file named index.theme with the following contents:
~/.icons/default/index.theme
[Icon Theme]
Inherits=breeze_cursors
Execute the following command:
$ ln -s /usr/share/icons/breeze_cursors/cursors ~/.icons/default/cursors
Personally, I applied a different method to fix this issue, I discovered the Arch wiki one’s after.
I directly modified my /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme with my custom theme, as hinted here by example.
https://www.arcolinuxd.com/how-to-fix-the-cursor-theme-on-plasma-cursor-is-not-applied-everywhere/
Looking further, it was already mentioned here:
It was driving me nuts, especially when I did not see this behaviour in KDE Neon or Kubuntu VMs.
I compared the default index.theme in a KDE Manjaro VM and those two, Manjaro has a xcursor-breeze something (on my phone right now), while the 2 others breeze_cursors something.