gamescope Cursor Camera Control Sporadic Movements

OS: Arch Linux Display Server: X11 Desktop: BSPWM GPU Driver: nvidia 550.90.07 Gamescope Mode: nested

When moving from gamescope 3.14.24 to 3.14.26 I started having issues with the camera control in Lord of the Rings Online. The camera would often spin around to a random direction when clicking to drag the camera view port.

The offending commit is probably one or more of:

3c5a232269ef8adef56423bf9b2bb48cb5c0cd1d
dade66318d852387bf8f1e91427dc7e2b5511826
69610ec52429fecbe94c4c042cc42ab43e0491f8

The issue seems to be resolved by adding the argument --force-grab-cursor although a strange side affect was the cursor speed was affected.

Is the user expected to use --force-grab-cursor or was there a regression?

Aug 12 '24 09:08 Neurognostic

thanks it works

Aug 17 '24 03:08 ha-gen

This is also happening with Plasma (Wayland). Experiencing this in Turtle WoW (Classic private server)

EDIT: Your fix works, and yes cursor speed was affected but I was able to amend this by switching off from Hardware Mouse and increasing the cursor speed for the software mouse in the game settings

Jul 09 '25 19:07 yaomtc

Can confirm this is happening with Pop OS! 24_04 Cosmic (Wayland). I was experiencing this in Fromsoft such as Dark Souls Remastered and Elden Ring (as gamescope's --adaptive-sync option fixes their frame-pacing issues).

--force-grab-cursor fixed the issue, as noted above.

Oct 15 '25 23:10 ReshiIRE