mouse cursor is extremely big [SOLVED]

sexynsmartjenny · 2018-06-06 21:46:11

It's a very strange thing that is happening in my newly installed helium bunsenlabs. When the mouse cursor moves to my google chrome frame, it becomes extremely big. Is there anyway for the mouse cursor to stay the same size? It's very unusual. I have never had this kind of thing.

p.s. the mouse cursor also changes size when it rolls over to folders. Is it just something special in the new helium version?

I googled and it seems this is a common problem for high solution screens

https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … on-monitor

Last edited by sexynsmartjenny (2018-06-14 23:56:26)

hhh · 2018-06-06 21:55:42

No, it's not a helium issue we've heard of yet. Hopefully someone will give you some troubleshooting steps to take.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2018-06-07 06:15:48

sexynsmartjenny wrote:

a common problem for high solution screens

Yes, HiDPI support is very tricky for a desktop like BunsenLabs, unfortunately.

Does this only happen with Chrome?

If you try Chromium (from the Debian repositories), do you have the same problem?

You can set the DPI to match that of the display by editing ~/.Xresources and then un-commenting and changing the Xft.dpi line to the correct value.

sexynsmartjenny · 2018-06-07 22:51:27

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Does this only happen with Chrome?
If you try Chromium (from the Debian repositories), do you have the same problem?
You can set the DPI to match that of the display by editing ~/.Xresources and then un-commenting and changing the Xft.dpi line to the correct value.

hi, yes it's the same problem when I use chromium.

okay, so I deleted the ! in front of Xft.dpi: and changed 96 to 60. But nothing seemed to change. In fact, my folders became smaller but my cursor is still huuuuuge.

p.s. I tried

xrdb -query

and this is what I got

*customization:	-color
URxvt.background:	[90]#082B4A
URxvt.boldFont:	xft:monospace:bold:size=10
URxvt.color0:	#555753
URxvt.color1:	#b44444
URxvt.color10:	#13b9b9
URxvt.color11:	#d9cf8f
URxvt.color12:	#8f99d9
URxvt.color13:	#b08fd9
URxvt.color14:	#8fd9d5
URxvt.color15:	#c5c5c5
URxvt.color2:	#5ecb8c
URxvt.color3:	#d9c964
URxvt.color4:	#3d6aac
URxvt.color5:	#9a64d9
URxvt.color6:	#64d9d5
URxvt.color7:	#d3d7cf
URxvt.color8:	#babdb6
URxvt.color9:	#d98f93
URxvt.cursorBlink:	true
URxvt.depth:	32
URxvt.fading:	20
URxvt.font:	xft:monospace:size=10
URxvt.foreground:	#ADD8E6
URxvt.geometry:	83x35
URxvt.iconFile:	/usr/share/icons/Paper/48x48/apps/utilities-terminal.png
URxvt.letterSpace:	-1
URxvt.matcher.button:	3
URxvt.perl-ext-common:	default,matcher
URxvt.saveLines:	16384
URxvt.scrollBar:	true
URxvt.scrollBar_right:	true
URxvt.scrollstyle:	plain
URxvt.url-launcher:	/usr/bin/x-www-browser
Xft.antialias:	true
Xft.autohint:	true
Xft.dpi:	96
Xft.hinting:	true
Xft.hintstyle:	hintslight
Xft.lcdfilter:	lcddefault
Xft.rgba:	rgb

Is it possible to delete the files in the cursor themes that refer to 48 by 48. How do I find the folder with all the cursors in them?

Last edited by sexynsmartjenny (2018-06-07 23:50:34)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2018-06-08 06:17:24

sexynsmartjenny wrote:

I deleted the ! in front of Xft.dpi: and changed 96 to 60

Is your display actually 60DPI? That seems rather low.

Put the exclamation mark back in that line and perhaps try

Xcursor.size: 16

before hacking away at the cursor themes.

sexynsmartjenny · 2018-06-08 17:29:17

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Put the exclamation mark back in that line and perhaps try
Xcursor.size: 16
before hacking away at the cursor themes.

It still doesn't work From what I read by googling posts about similar problems, it seems to only way to make it work is by hacking away at the cursor themes.

Last edited by sexynsmartjenny (2018-06-08 17:43:44)

Davy · 2018-06-10 03:21:18

I'm in a similar boat. Massive mouse when on firefox and also when mousing over files in thunar. It wasn't a problem when I first upgraded. It's hard to be sure, because I've been doing lots of configuring and personalising after the new release, but I think it might have happened soon after I tried to bring Bunsen-blue over from my backup.

ohnonot · 2018-06-10 05:57:31

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

sexynsmartjenny wrote:
I deleted the ! in front of Xft.dpi: and changed 96 to 60
Is your display actually 60DPI? That seems rather low.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/197828/ … screen-dpi
or
https://www.sven.de/dpi/
warning: better to actually take a ruler to the screen and measure it.
i was surprised that my screen is not 96, but 99dpi.

somehow i don't think it will solve your problem, but it's worth a try.

have you tried with various different cursor themes? maybe install some new ones?

sleekmason · 2018-06-10 13:16:07

You could try changing themes:

sudo update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme

Also maybe the priority number?

Davy · 2018-06-10 14:32:31

Ok, here's my messy solution. I made a copy of DMZ (White) and deleted all the references to 48X48 and 32X32 in it. It doesn't seem ideal, but it works.

Download this: davy.tyrrell.co/downloads/DMZ(White)Small.tar.gz
Extract it into /usr/share/icons/
Extract it into ~/.icons/ or ~/.local/share/icons
Open the GTK Appearance gui (lxappearance) and select DMZ (White) Small
If you can't find it there, restart and try again (or if you don't want to restart refer to the link hhh has posted below)

There are a number of thing which don't make sense here. I don't like using /usr/share/icons/ but if I put it in ~/.local/share/icons/ it doesn't show up in the LXAppearance gui thingy.

edit: I just tried putting it in ~/.local/share/icons/ again just there and it worked. Perhaps it's because I restarted the pc? That seems unlikely, because I can change it now without restarting. Perhaps it was because I changed the title so there were no spaces? Maybe. I don't know.

If I put it in the local icon folder and try add it to x-cursor-theme in the debian alternatives it doesn't work.
I also tried packaging it so it can be installed through the lxappearance gui, but no joy there either.

Last edited by Davy (2018-06-15 23:48:30)

sexynsmartjenny · 2018-06-14 23:56:09

@Davy, I followed your steps and it worked!

p.s. I was just getting used to the incredibly huge cursors! But thank you! I feel better with the normal sized mouse cursor now!

hhh · 2018-06-15 00:38:00

Davy wrote:

edit: I just tried putting it in ~/.local/share/icons/ again just there and it worked. Perhaps it's because I restarted the pc? That seems unlikely, because I can change it now without restarting. Perhaps it was because I changed the title so there were no spaces? Maybe. I don't know.

Rebooting will update the icon/cursor cache, so that probably is the reason. There's a command for that too.

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