Fix non-native macOS cursor

mne/viz/backends/_qt.py

@@ -131,6 +131,13 @@
     os.environ.setdefault("QT_MAC_WANTS_LAYER", "1")
 
 
+def _qcursor(name):
+    # map to a native name on macOS (instead of using Qt pixmap)
+    if sys.platform == "darwin" and name in ("WaitCursor", "BusyCursor"):
+        name = "ForbiddenCursor"
+    return QCursor(getattr(Qt, name))
+
+
 # fix for qscroll needing two layouts, one parent, one child
 def _get_layout(layout):
     if hasattr(layout, "_parent_layout"):
@@ -885,7 +892,7 @@ def func(button):
             button_id = widget.standardButton(button)
             for button_name in _QtDialog.supported_button_names:
                 if button_id == getattr(QMessageBox, button_name):
-                    widget.setCursor(QCursor(Qt.WaitCursor))
+                    widget.setCursor(_qcursor("WaitCursor"))
                     try:
                         callback(button_name)
                     finally:
@@ -1563,7 +1570,7 @@ def _window_set_cursor(self, cursor):
         self._window.setCursor(cursor)
 
     def _window_new_cursor(self, name):
-        return QCursor(getattr(Qt, name))
+        return _qcursor(name)
 
     @contextmanager
     def _window_ensure_minimum_sizes(self):

tools/github_actions_test.sh

@@ -3,24 +3,16 @@
 set -eo pipefail
 
 if [[ "${CI_OS_NAME}" == "ubuntu"* ]]; then
-  CONDITIONS=("not (ultraslowtest or pgtest)")
+  CONDITION="not (ultraslowtest or pgtest)"
 elif [[ "${CI_OS_NAME}" == "macos"* ]]; then
   # detect arch and run slowtest on arm64 only (pgtest is already ultraslow on macOS)
   if [[ "$(uname -m)" == "arm64" ]]; then
-    # Split the PyVista/VTK ("pvtest") tests into their own xdist invocation.
-    # Run all together, a worker that accumulates heavy state (loky pools,
-    # leftover ipykernel/jupyter_client asyncio loops, tqdm monitors) creates
-    # the scheduling jitter that trips an xdist loadscope dispatch deadlock at
-    # end-of-run: workers idle in TestQueue.get, controller loops forever in
-    # dsession.loop_once without dispatching the remaining scopes or SHUTDOWN
-    # (see pytest-xdist#1313). Two shorter, lighter invocations avoid it while
-    # keeping parallelism; pvtest alone under xdist does not hang.
-    CONDITIONS=("not (ultraslowtest or pgtest or pvtest)" "pvtest and not ultraslowtest")
+    CONDITION="not (ultraslowtest or pgtest)"
   else
-    CONDITIONS=("not (slowtest or pgtest)")
+    CONDITION="not (slowtest or pgtest)"
   fi
 elif [[ "${CI_OS_NAME}" == "windows"* ]]; then
-  CONDITIONS=("not (slowtest or pgtest)")
+  CONDITION="not (slowtest or pgtest)"
 else
   echo "✕ ERROR: Unrecognized CI_OS_NAME=${CI_OS_NAME}"
   exit 1
@@ -53,29 +45,4 @@ if [[ ! -z "$CONDA_ENV" ]] && [[ "${CI_OS_NAME}" != "windows"* ]] && [[ "${MNE_C
 fi
 
 # $COV_ARGS is set in github_actions_env_vars.sh (coverage only on Python >= 3.14)
-# Run each marker expression as its own pytest invocation (usually just one; on
-# macOS arm64 the pvtest tests are split out, see above). Later runs append
-# coverage, each gets its own junit file, and we run them all before exiting
-# with the first nonzero code so one failing split does not mask the other.
-set +e  # capture each pytest's exit code manually rather than aborting on it
-CODE=0
-COV_APPEND=""
-i=0
-for CONDITION in "${CONDITIONS[@]}"; do
-  if [ "${#CONDITIONS[@]}" -gt 1 ]; then
-    THIS_JUNIT="${JUNIT_PATH%.xml}-${i}.xml"
-  else
-    THIS_JUNIT="$JUNIT_PATH"
-  fi
-  set -x
-  pytest -m "${CONDITION}" -n "$PYTEST_XDIST_N" --dist loadscope --timeout=120 --timeout-method=thread -o faulthandler_timeout=110 ${COV_ARGS} ${COV_APPEND} --color=yes --continue-on-collection-errors --junit-xml="$THIS_JUNIT" -vv ${USE_DIRS}
-  THIS_CODE=$?
-  set +x
-  echo "Exited with code $THIS_CODE for: ${CONDITION}"
-  if [ "$THIS_CODE" -ne 0 ] && [ "$CODE" -eq 0 ]; then
-    CODE=$THIS_CODE
-  fi
-  COV_APPEND="--cov-append"
-  i=$((i + 1))
-done
-exit $CODE
+pytest -m "${CONDITION}" -n "$PYTEST_XDIST_N" --dist loadscope --timeout=120 --timeout-method=thread -o faulthandler_timeout=110 ${COV_ARGS} --color=yes --continue-on-collection-errors --junit-xml="$JUNIT_PATH" -vv ${USE_DIRS}