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Correction, they aren't getting replaced by SDL_SYSTEM_CURSOR_HAND
 but by "fully closed hand", That hand is gotten when the window is moving.

And I may have jumped the gun, found the reason, it turns out that:
SDL_SYSTEM_CURSOR_SIZEWE
SDL_SYSTEM_CURSOR_SIZENS

work correctly, but these 2:
SDL_SYSTEM_CURSOR_SIZENWSE
SDL_SYSTEM_CURSOR_SIZENESW
are getting replaced by the hand.

Some Linux DEs have 4 cursors, one for each corner instead of Windows like where there are 2 cursors.

In "src/video/x11/SDL_x11mouse.c" the same cursor is set for SDL_SYSTEM_CURSOR_SIZENWSE, SDL_SYSTEM_CURSOR_SIZENESW and SDL_SYSTEM_CURSOR_SIZEALL.

This could be a bug. Or maybe the active cursor theme uses "closed hand" for both "sizing" and "moving" (which could be confusing :).

> Or maybe the active cursor theme uses "closed hand" for both "sizing" and "moving" (which could be confusing :).

Linux Cursor themes I've seen ended up having 4 different cursors for it(1 for each window corner). The API should probably be updated to support each corner cursor separately.

Example with awdita theme(default with GNOME):
https://github.com/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/blob/master/src/cursors/pngs/96x96/top_left_corner.png
https://github.com/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/blob/master/src/cursors/pngs/96x96/top_right_corner.png
https://github.com/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/blob/master/src/cursors/pngs/96x96/bottom_left_corner.png
https://github.com/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/blob/master/src/cursors/pngs/96x96/bottom_right_corner.png

This is because SDL_SYSTEM_CURSOR_SIZENWSE and SDL_SYSTEM_CURSOR_SIZENESW both map to X11's XC_fleur cursor. Windows has a cursor that has two diagonal arrows that matches well here, but X11 doesn't.

These are the choices:

 https://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/appendix/b/

There are clearly better choices if we had separate SDL cursors for NE, NW, SE and SW (and Windows could have reused cursors as appropriate), but that's not how it worked out.

(Having a hand cursor is technically a bug in the font used for this, but it's probably because XC_fleur is generally used when dragging things.)

Going to mark this bug as ASSIGNED, so we can change this API later.

--ryan.

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Gonna reopen this as this is still an issue.