How to fix cursor size?

generic-specialty · May 15, 2019, 11:46pm

For the most part, I’ve managed to get a pretty solid DPI scaling setup for my Retina display (dotfiles).

What I can’t figure out, however, is how to make my cursor bigger.
It’s tiny, half the size it should be.

I’ve tried setting XCURSOR_SIZE, to no avail.

maxhbr · May 16, 2019, 5:53am

I use the following line in my config to set the cursor size to 128:

services.xserver.displayManager.sessionCommands = ''
${pkgs.xlibs.xsetroot}/bin/xsetroot -cursor_name ${pkgs.vanilla-dmz}/share/icons/Vanilla-DMZ/cursors/left_ptr 128 &disown
'';

but I do not know whether this is best practice (it is obviously slightly hacky). It also has problems that the size is smaller when hovering above some windows (e.g. urxvt).

github.com

maxhbr/myconfig/blob/285e9afacd0ef58ac80665a5c85355d99afa8c6f/nixos/roles/desktop.nix#L57

    
      
            displayManager = {
              slim = {
                enable = true;
                defaultUser = "mhuber";
                # TODO: this is no longer working!
                # theme = "${pkgs.myconfig.slim-theme}/share/my-slim-theme";
                # theme = "${pkgs.myconfig.slim-theme}/share/my-slim-theme.tar.gz";
                # theme = "${pkgs.myconfig.slim-theme}/share/my-slim-theme.zip";
              };
              sessionCommands = ''
                ${pkgs.xlibs.xsetroot}/bin/xsetroot -cursor_name ${pkgs.vanilla-dmz}/share/icons/Vanilla-DMZ/cursors/left_ptr 128 &disown
                if test -e $HOME/.Xresources; then
                  ${pkgs.xorg.xrdb}/bin/xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources &disown
                fi
                ${pkgs.myconfig.background}/bin/myRandomBackground &disown
                ${pkgs.xss-lock}/bin/xss-lock ${pkgs.myconfig.background}/bin/myScreenLock &disown
              '';
            };
          
          
};

generic-specialty · May 17, 2019, 2:11am

@maxhbr that fixes the cursor on the desktop, but the cursor is still tiny after hovering over my terminal (kitty) or web browser (firefox) :-/

ursi · July 4, 2021, 4:42am

I’m looking to do the same thing. Did you ever find a solution?

winston0410 · July 10, 2021, 1:50pm

Looking for the solution for the exact same question. Is @maxhbr command the way to go?

GTrunSec · July 11, 2021, 4:08am

Check my solution
hm: nixos-flk/default.nix at 2c49a5ebd9d03673594760d1108f7963a28341fe · GTrunSec/nixos-flk · GitHub
xdg: nixos-flk/xdg.nix at 2c49a5ebd9d03673594760d1108f7963a28341fe · GTrunSec/nixos-flk · GitHub

marcelarie · March 20, 2022, 2:30pm

Anyone found a solution on this?

I already setup .xsession.pointerCursor`