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vredez

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Registered: 2016-01-07

Posts: 6

[SOLVED] XFCE cursor size issue

Hello,

I'm recently encountering the issue that my cursor is too big after logging in, despite the correct setting (XFCE4).
I have to change the cursor theme and undo the change in order get back to the desired size (demonstration: https://gfycat.com/LikableWhirlwindBedlingtonterrier).
The strange thing is that this doesn't occur at every login.

The only thing that I have changed is using one of my displays in portrait mode. Maybe XFCE detects a HiDPI screen because of the 1080x1920 resolution?
I wasn't able to find any relevant DPI-scaling setting in that regard.

Last edited by vredez (2017-02-11 07:36:26)

Fenwick

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Registered: 2017-02-09

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] XFCE cursor size issue

I also had this issue, granted with Antergos not Arch directly. http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions … ursor-xfce The fix listed there did work to reduce the cursor size, however not in all apps. Chromium based Apps still show a large cursor, I am still currently investigating that.

vredez

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Registered: 2016-01-07

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] XFCE cursor size issue

Thanks, creating a ~/.Xresource file solved the issue as far as I can tell:

Xcursor.size: 24

Howver, it seems the problem shifted towards the display manager, but that would be another topic I guess.