xorg: New Monitor, Mouse Cursor too big

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I bought a new Monitor today, and when I connected it, the mouse cursor becomes bigger (about 1.5 times the size) when I hover over any GUI window. When I move it over the Xorg background, it reverts to regular size.

What I have done so far to debug the issue:

  • My .config/gtk-2.0/settings.ini and .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini do not contain any cursor theme
  • I tried to set a cursor theme using gnome-tweak-tool, but it doesn't get applied (yes, I've restarted my X session)
  • The issue applies all X11 apps, no matter if it's GTK, QT or plain X11
  • xdpyinfo reports 96x96, and setting xrandr --dpi 96 for all outputs individually doesn't help
  • I run the i3 window manager on Debian Jessie

My Question is: How do I debug this issue best? Is there any way to have Xorg tell me which cursor theme it's using?

Drachenkatze

Posted 2015-03-12T23:22:41.580

Reputation: 181

Do you have hardware cursor enabled on your graphic card? If yes, try disabling it. – Eugen Rieck – 2015-03-12T23:35:44.467

I just tried both HWCursor and SWCursor, and the effect is identical. – Drachenkatze – 2015-03-13T09:35:55.683

I've found the same issue, xmonad on gentoo... – dpn – 2015-06-11T23:34:07.290

I'm having the same issue with xmonad on Ubuntu. – sjy – 2019-09-05T23:12:15.103

Answers

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I run i3 in xfce on Arch Linux on a laptop. Whenever I connected a my large monitor to extend my desktop I was getting the same behaviour.

I just discovered that by playing with the cursor size settings (through xfce's GUI, in my case) that this problem disappeared, at least for now.

I have connected and disconnected the monitor and the setting seems to have stuck. I don't know what a restart will do.

nxtman123

Posted 2015-03-12T23:22:41.580

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