Mouse imprisoned on left monitor at start

General
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ArchLinux + Hyprland 0.55 with 2 monitors (HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2). Hyprland starts but mouse is constrained to the left monitor. Resetting with,

$ hyprctl reloadconfigs

… will then allow the mouse to move freely as you would expect.

Version info

Hyprland 0.55.0 built from branch v0.55.0 at commit af923e30d1d24f1f4a4f5cb8308065173c1d9539 clean (version: bump to 0.55.0).
Date: Sat May 9 13:35:27 2026
Tag: v0.55.0, commits: 7290

Libraries:
Hyprgraphics: built against 0.5.1, system has 0.5.1
Hyprutils: built against 0.13.1, system has 0.13.1
Hyprcursor: built against 0.1.13, system has 0.1.13
Hyprlang: built against 0.6.8, system has 0.6.8
Aquamarine: built against 0.11.0, system has 0.11.0

Version ABI string: af923e30d1d24f1f4a4f5cb8308065173c1d9539_aq_0.11_hu_0.13_hg_0.5_hc_0.1_hlg_0.6
no flags were set

nvidia-smi output 
nvidia-smi
Mon May 11 16:50:00 2026
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 595.71.05              Driver Version: 595.71.05      CUDA Version: 13.2     |
±----------------------------------------±-----------------------±---------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070        Off |   00000000:09:00.0  On |                  N/A |
|  0%   42C    P8             14W /  240W |     515MiB /   8192MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
±----------------------------------------±-----------------------±---------------------+

±----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI              PID   Type   Process name                        GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A             710      G   /usr/lib/Xorg                            23MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            1395      G   Hyprland                                127MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            1431      G   Xwayland                                  3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            1444      G   hyprpaper                                71MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            1580      G   kitty                                    31MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            1781    C+G   …rack-uuid=3190708988185955192         47MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            2817      G   hyprlauncher                              6MiB |
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

I start hyprland with uwsm but this problem occurs with a non-uwsm start. I’ve removed all my window and workspace rules so there is nothing special in the configuration. Hyprpaper starts and puts a different wallpaper on each monitor, waybar starts with a bar only on the left monitor as instructed.

This was happening with the pre-lua config, which I have mirrored in the new lua configuration.

I’ve got a workaround with the config reload but it would be nice to start with a mouse cursor that is free to roam.

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See GitHub Discussion thread:

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I reset my monitors with nwg-displays, now it’s working again.

4

@tekstryder It always helps to know I’m not alone. I have been hesitant to fire up a script at start that does a sleep+hyprctl reload but I may do that instead of going back to 0.54.

@ajgringo619 That worked for me as well but, like hyprctl reload, it doesn’t persist.

Ah well, I’ll follow the github discussion as well as this thread.

Thanks for the help!

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Yeah, same here. I hit it again this morning after unlocking my system.

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This appears to be fixed in latest Arch repository,

Hyprland 0.55.1 built from branch v0.55.1 at commit a47147bc095e5b3be3eb8bd04f0ac242b968cd4d clean ([gha] Nix: update inputs).
Date: Wed May 13 22:55:46 2026
Tag: v0.55.1, commits: 7311

Libraries:
Hyprgraphics: built against 0.5.1, system has 0.5.1
Hyprutils: built against 0.13.1, system has 0.13.1
Hyprcursor: built against 0.1.13, system has 0.1.13
Hyprlang: built against 0.6.8, system has 0.6.8
Aquamarine: built against 0.11.0, system has 0.11.0

Version ABI string: a47147bc095e5b3be3eb8bd04f0ac242b968cd4d_aq_0.11_hu_0.13_hg_0.5_hc_0.1_hlg_0.6
no flags were set
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same
everytime I connect / disconnect my laptop from external monitor I have to run
hyprctl reload

to see my mouse again. Funny thing is, in the versions 0.4xxx I did not have this issue

I’m on hyprland 0.55 , will try 551 but im a bit skeptical

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No not the same.

Is a separate issue. Start a separate thread instead of bumping an old solved one.

This was fixed by merged PR: