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#1 2015-12-15 21:06:44

bakteria
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i3wm, mouse pointer is 4 times the size after reboot

I just installed arch fresh on my workstation yesterday.
Just after I finished installing my nvidia drivers and lxappearance and after a reboot the mouse just went big.
I only have two xcursor-themes installed and its dmz and adwaita.
I checked .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini and the size is set to 0.

I've been trying to find help on #archlinux-newbie but none have yet come up with a solution.

If you need any other info, logs etc. Just ask.

Might be useful to add that I have four screens. Three 1080p and one 1440p.

Last edited by bakteria (2015-12-15 23:39:29)

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#2 2015-12-17 10:52:42

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Re: i3wm, mouse pointer is 4 times the size after reboot

After trying my luck here, reddit, irc. I decided to do a complete re-install and try and replicate the error. And what I found was after installing firefox the mouse grew big again. I have no Idea what the actual reason for this is. Only the mouse pointer grew big and not the rest of the firefox UI.
Since I would like to use firefox for my daily browsing I am now reaching out to find out if there is anything I can do to fix this issue.

Last edited by bakteria (2015-12-17 10:53:05)

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#3 2015-12-17 10:56:24

LCvanDinteren
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Re: i3wm, mouse pointer is 4 times the size after reboot

Is the mouse pointer only big in firefox? Or also in other programs? Is it directly at boot? Or only after FF has been launched?

Can you post your pacman log, showing the parts that got installed along with FF?

What happens if you remove firefox and it's dependencies? Does the issue stay?

Edit: P.S.: welcome to the forums:)

Last edited by LCvanDinteren (2015-12-17 10:56:50)

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#4 2015-12-17 11:06:45

bakteria
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Re: i3wm, mouse pointer is 4 times the size after reboot

Thank you for replying!
Right after installing it the mouse pointer is only big on top of firefox. After reboot the mouse is big everywhere. If I remove firefox and it's dependencies it goes back to its normal size after reboot.

[2015-12-17 10:57] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S firefox'
[2015-12-17 10:57] [ALPM] transaction started
[2015-12-17 10:57] [ALPM] installed libgusb (0.2.7-1)
[2015-12-17 10:57] [ALPM] installed js17 (17.0.0-3)
[2015-12-17 10:57] [ALPM] installed polkit (0.113-4)
[2015-12-17 10:57] [ALPM] installed dconf (0.24.0-1)
[2015-12-17 10:57] [ALPM] installed colord (1.2.12-1)
[2015-12-17 10:57] [ALPM] installed at-spi2-core (2.18.3-1)
[2015-12-17 10:57] [ALPM] installed at-spi2-atk (2.18.1-1)
[2015-12-17 10:57] [ALPM] installed adwaita-icon-theme (3.18.0-1)
[2015-12-17 10:57] [ALPM] installed json-glib (1.0.4-1)
[2015-12-17 10:57] [ALPM] installed rest (0.7.93-1)
[2015-12-17 10:57] [ALPM] installed gtk3 (3.18.6-1)
[2015-12-17 10:57] [ALPM] installed mozilla-common (1.4-4)
[2015-12-17 10:57] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] relogin or source /etc/profile.d/mozilla-common.sh
[2015-12-17 10:57] [ALPM] installed mime-types (9-1)
[2015-12-17 10:57] [ALPM] installed dbus-glib (0.104-1)
[2015-12-17 10:57] [ALPM] installed hunspell (1.3.3-3)
[2015-12-17 10:57] [ALPM] installed firefox (43.0-2)
[2015-12-17 10:57] [ALPM] transaction completed

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#5 2015-12-17 11:14:37

LCvanDinteren
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Re: i3wm, mouse pointer is 4 times the size after reboot

I'm no expert on this either, but none of them seem directly related to cursor to me.

You could try (re)installing cursor theme or look for cursor settings in i3wm config.

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#6 2015-12-17 11:29:35

bakteria
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Re: i3wm, mouse pointer is 4 times the size after reboot

I poked around a bit more and started to suspect gtk3 to be the culprit here.
Fx for arch now ships with gtk3.
Indeed, after installing gtk3 and a reboot the big mouse is back.

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#7 2015-12-17 13:39:58

bakteria
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Re: i3wm, mouse pointer is 4 times the size after reboot

I set

Xcursor.size: 16

in my .Xresources. That seems to have solved the issue.

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