Custom cursor works inside windows, but not on destkop background or title bar

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.

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