Okay, so you’ve got this slick setup with Hyprland for your daily workflow & Blender for your creative projects, but there’s one incredibly annoying problem: your mouse cursor is lagging, stuttering, or just feels… off. It’s one of those little things that can absolutely ruin your flow & drive you nuts. I've been there, & honestly, it's a super common issue, but the reasons behind it can be pretty different depending on where you're seeing the lag.

Turns out, the smooth, buttery cursor you expect can get tripped up by a bunch of things, from graphics driver quirks in Hyprland to specific rendering settings in Blender. It's usually not your mouse hardware that's the problem; it's a software or configuration conflict happening deep within your system.

In this guide, I’m going to walk you through all the common causes for cursor lag in both Hyprland & Blender. We'll go from the super specific, application-level fixes to the more general, system-wide tweaks that can help. This is the kind of insider knowledge you get from spending way too much time on forums & config files, so hopefully, it saves you the headache.

If you're experiencing cursor lag in Hyprland, especially a stutter when you move the mouse quickly or between different application windows, there's a VERY high chance you're running an NVIDIA GPU. The relationship between NVIDIA's proprietary drivers & Wayland (the display protocol Hyprland uses) has been, let's say, a little rocky. While things are getting better, there are still some weird edge cases, & cursor rendering is a big one.

The core of the problem often lies with something called "hardware cursors."

Here's the thing: by default, your system tries to offload the rendering of the mouse cursor to your GPU. This is called a "hardware cursor," & it's supposed to be more efficient. However, with NVIDIA's drivers on Wayland compositors like Hyprland, this process can get buggy. It leads to the exact stuttering or lag you’re seeing. There can be a noticeable "lag spike" when moving the cursor from a hardware-accelerated window (like a web browser) to a non-accelerated one (like a terminal).

The solution for a huge number of users is to tell Hyprland to stop letting the GPU handle the cursor & to render it in software instead.

How to fix it: You need to edit your file, which is usually located at .

Find the section in your config. If it doesn't exist, you can add it. You need to add one simple line: .

Here’s what it should look like: