I’m not quite sure when this started happening as I always update Manjaro the moment update is available, but the colorful loading mouse cursor animation is twitching left and right like there is a bug in animation frame of it. Instead of just spinning perfectly in place it looks like some frames are misplaced by one pixel to the left and then to the right which causes the loading mouse cursor to shift rapidly left and right by 1 pixel as it’s rotating. Anyone else having this? It’s actually quite annoying and I don’t remember it doing this in the past where it just perfectly rotated.
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Can you record that and upload here?
Press PrintScr and then V for video, the button turns red. Press to record your screen and the animation and upload.
Have you tried to change to a different cursor set and back? You can do that with Gnome Tweaks.
I use Biwata-Modern-Classic and I love it.
You can go to Gnome Look and download any great looking cursor and use Gnome tweaks to change the default one.
I have the same problem with cinnamon, I think it’s the bibata cursor themes. I hope it will be solved.
Thing is, I haven’t changed anything related to cursors. It shouldn’t change by itself either.
I’ve tried changing cursor back and forth and ALL Bibata cursors have this issue. ALL of them. Only Adwaita is fine. Someone messed up loading cursor animation (the circle one, not the circle with pointer one) and is now shared among all the cursor themes.
I don’t want to download new ursors, I just want default one to not be broken and distracting. It was fine till somewhat recently when this changed. It’s really distracting as it’s twitching left and right instead of smooth spinning animation.
It’s a known issue and will be fixed in the next upcoming release:
Funny. I don’t have this issue and if had to guess it is because I have that cursor and set to the largest size. I saw the video and looks normal size… maybe bigger cursor not afraid I’m afraid 
I recently noticed that the spinning ‘wait’ mouse cursor in the configured ‘Bibata Modern Classic’ theme (checked via ‘GNOME Tweaks’) shakes one pixel left to right since a recent update. Looks strange.
I investigated and just wanted to FYI everyone, it’s a known bug and will hopefully be fixed with a future update:
Just installed the 2.0.6 update for Bibata cursor and the issue is still there. Was this update meant to fix it?
I also noticed recently that the bug has not been fixed.
According to the Github discussion I linked above, the issue has not been fixed in the 2.0.6 update. There hasn’t been any update in the discussion for the last 3 weeks but a fix has been committed apparently. All it needs is a new release which hasn’t been done yet.
I just reinstalled Manjaro because I switched win10 for win11 and was best to do it all from scratch.
The issue is still present. My previous comment about not having the issue because I had the cursor size set to biggest was inaccurate. Didn’t notice the cursor Manjaro was using was another one and I do not recall changing it but by looking it a bit closer it turns out I did. I use a slightly different installed from Gnome-look Bibata classic
Maybe I dorked and installed the “windows version” 
but can’t remember… will share more info when I go back to my old Manjaro install for some files.
I can report back that even with the most recent [Stable Update] 2024-05-29 the issue hasn’t been fixed yet.
Like I said prior, it seems the problem has been fixed in code but there hasn’t been issued a new release to this day. Is Bibata Modern Classic maybe outdated/discontinued?
What would be the best way forward?
EDIT (24.06.2024)
I can report that the issue has been fixed now with Release 2.0.7. 
