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Bug 721250 - Need ability to specify mouse cursor size in settings
Need ability to specify mouse cursor size in settings
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 608231
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Universal Access
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-12-30 21:52 UTC by Jason Stewart
Modified: 2014-01-06 12:37 UTC
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Description Jason Stewart 2013-12-30 21:52:06 UTC 
In gnome 3.x [System Settings -> Mouse and Touchpad], there is no way to set the mouse cursor size or add a downloaded cursor theme.

This is a pretty big accessibility issue for people with diminished vision.  It is also a problem for people who have high-resolution setups that dwarf the default mouse cursor size.

Mouse cursor resizing can be accomplished via command line using either the `update-alternatives` utility, or by directly modifying X11 config files, but neither of those options are particularly user-friendly.

If someone could point me to the files that handle this, I would be glad to make the addition myself if the maintainers are amenable to accepting it.
Comment 1 Ondrej Holy 2014-01-03 15:07:00 UTC 
Thanks for your bug report. 

Looks like there is no option to do that in the Control Center. However cursor theme could be changed by Gnome Tweak Tool, but only way to change cursor size is probably:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-size 24

I think better place for those settings should be in Universal Access panel.
Comment 2 Jason Stewart 2014-01-05 23:36:39 UTC 
Universal Access > Pointing and Clicking is a good enough place for it.

Is gdm still the default greeter, or are you guys using lightdm now?  Also need a way to propagate the setting to the greeter... possibly have to push the setting to X11???

Do I have the go-ahead to work on this?

Thx.
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2014-01-06 12:34:17 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 665907 ***
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2014-01-06 12:37:38 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 608231 ***