Cursor waiting mode

When starting a script or application which does not support startup notifications, the mouse cursor will remain in busy/watch/clock mode for 60 seconds.

–no-startup-id

To solve this for a particular application, use the --no-startup-id parameter, for example:

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exec --no-startup-id ~/script
bindsym $mod+d exec --no-startup-id dmenu_run

To disable loading cursor animation globally

If the above does not solve the problem, look in /usr/share/icons/{CURSOR_NAME}/cursors or $HOME/.icons/{CURSOR_NAME}/cursors/ and rename or remove the watch cursor

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mv watch watch.bak
mv left_ptr_watch left_ptr_watch.bak
ln -s left_ptr watch
ln -s left_ptr left_ptr_watch