Ubuntu – How to increase the size of the cursor in Lubuntu 19.04

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I use Lubuntu 19.04 with LXQT on a notebook with a 15-inch display and a Full HD (1920×1080 px) resolution. I set the scaling of the display to 120 by .Xresources file in the Home directory. The cursor is not terribly small, but it's size is still annoyingly smaller than what I use in Windows.

Under the LXDE desktop environment I had a way to manage the size of the mouse cursor, but now – not. I have tried my old methods plus a couple of others already with no success yet.

So I just would like to know if there exists any way to manage it's size. I think it is logical such a way to exist, since we can see that the cursor appears in a certain size anyway – this should mean that there is a setting for that somewhere.

Best Answer

Not from the desktop as themes do not support multiple sizes yet. There is a workaround it seems:

From the comment by sroracle to the bug report:

As a workaround, setting the XCURSOR_SIZE environment variable works. It should be noted that the Xcursor.size resource in ~/.Xresources or similar is ignored however. This issue should be looked at as out-of-box behavior on HiDPI systems is to have the cursor as small as possible.

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