I have difficulties seeing, so I tried to change my cursor using the instructions from Ubuntu 11, 12 but nothing worked. I have found no one on this Internet with my problem. I run Ubuntu 14.04 and gnome 3.9, I have dconf-editer
, compiz-config
and they don't do anything to my computer.
Ubuntu – Changing the cursor size in ubuntu 14.04
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Best Answer
14.04 introduced a new dconf setting called cursor-scale-factor setting. This should make it 48:
The cursor is large in Ubuntu software center, all of the Libre Office programs and in several other pieces of software.
But when pointing it to the launcher, the top panel, in Nautilus and in browsers the cursor is still small. So this is not working properly...
Better method: Change the mouse cursor theme. There is a tool for that called galternatives and it is in the default repository:
and follow these directions:
edit: it is a long standing bug. The bug also has a workaround