Ubuntu – How to get universal, moderately bigger mouse cursors on Ubuntu / GNOME

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I am visually impaired. The default mouse cursor on Ubuntu is too tiny for me. It can be hard to find.

I used the gnome-tweak-tool to choose Large Mouse Cursors. The results of this operation have two problems:

The large mouse cursors do not appear everywhere. They only show up in certain applications, like the browser, while the gnome menus still have the regular sized mouse cursors that are difficult to find. I want large cursors everywhere
The "Large Cursors" (where they do appear) are obnoxiously large, to the point of being overkill. The Windows Standard Extra Large cursor scheme in Windows 7 (for comparison) is reasonably sized, but the "Large Cursors" in Ubuntu are too big.

This shouldn't be such a hassle to change, should it? What can I do to fix this?

BTW, I had similar problems when I was using Unity. I just switched to GNOME yesterday.

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Here are two possible alternatives.

Changing the cursor size in ubuntu 14.04 Read from "Better solution" onwards in the Answer

https://askbot.fedoraproject.org/en/question/26896/large-mouse-cursors-gnome3/ Read the last two comments

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Ubuntu – How to change the cursor and its size

I would suggest you update your cursor theme and cursor size.

First in a terminal type:

sudo update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme

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Choose the number of the theme you want - e.g. 0 for DMZ-White

Changing the value here requires a reboot - a logout and login will not suffice.

Secondly, using dconf-editor (install using sudo apt-get install dconf-tools)

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navigate to org.gnome.desktop.interface

change the cursor size to 24 and cursor theme to DMZ-White

Ubuntu – How to hide the mouse cursor

Try unclutter.

The purpose of this program is to hide the pointer after the mouse has not moved for a while. Using it, you can make the pointer appear only when the user touches the screen, and disappear right after it. Maybe this was not exactly what you were aiming for, but it is much easier than your alternative.

To use it, first install it:

sudo apt-get install unclutter

then run it:

unclutter -idle 0.01 -root

The number in the above command is the number of seconds before the pointer disappears (in this case, 1/100 seconds).

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