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X11 - Setting Cursor Position Not Working

I'm trying to set my X11 cursor position. I tried calling XWarpPointer with the window set to None, root (DefaultRootWindow(display)), to the previously created window (XCreateWindow). The function IS being called, the mouse slows down a bit, but it does not physically move. Why could this be?

void GameWindow::ResetCursor() {
    SetCursor(resX / 2, resY / 2);
}

void GameWindow::SetCursor(int x, int y) {
    // Window root = DefaultRootWindow(display);
    XWarpPointer(display, None, root, 0, 0, 0, 0, x, y);
    XFlush(display);
}

EDIT: Here's the entire X11 Windowing file in case you can't find the reason here. https://gist.github.com/KarimIO/7db1f50778fda63a36c10242989baab6

Solution

  • The answer to this was relatively silly. I was using Gnome on Wayland, assuming it supported X11 as well. I assumed wrong.