How to have consistent cursor size on HiDPI?

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So, I'm on a HiDPI machine (XPS 9370) and using the Adwaita cursor; this is on a fresh install of Antergos w/ i3 for context.



I've been playing around with some settings for adapting to HiDPI, but I realized that my cursor changes size depending on what application it is hovering on. Whereas when not hovering over any application or hovering over a few, it may be sized appropriately for the display, but, say when hovering over termite or Firefox, it will decrease to a fraction of the size and become barely visible.



How do I make the cursor size consistent across the entire system?



Xcursor.size does not seem to affect the cursor sizes in the programs I listed.










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  • are you loading your .Xresources file with xrdb every time you start i3? what if you add Xcursor.size: xx into your .Xresources file and run xrxb ~/.Xresources during run time?
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    Dec 10 at 19:05










  • @bgregs Sorry, I was unclear. Xcursor.size doesn’t affect (GTK?) programs like Firefox and termite.
    – hyperum
    Dec 10 at 23:10











  • Yeah, now that I wrote that comment, I’m feeling really dumb.
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    Dec 10 at 23:24















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So, I'm on a HiDPI machine (XPS 9370) and using the Adwaita cursor; this is on a fresh install of Antergos w/ i3 for context.



I've been playing around with some settings for adapting to HiDPI, but I realized that my cursor changes size depending on what application it is hovering on. Whereas when not hovering over any application or hovering over a few, it may be sized appropriately for the display, but, say when hovering over termite or Firefox, it will decrease to a fraction of the size and become barely visible.



How do I make the cursor size consistent across the entire system?



Xcursor.size does not seem to affect the cursor sizes in the programs I listed.










share|improve this question























  • are you loading your .Xresources file with xrdb every time you start i3? what if you add Xcursor.size: xx into your .Xresources file and run xrxb ~/.Xresources during run time?
    – bgregs
    Dec 10 at 19:05










  • @bgregs Sorry, I was unclear. Xcursor.size doesn’t affect (GTK?) programs like Firefox and termite.
    – hyperum
    Dec 10 at 23:10











  • Yeah, now that I wrote that comment, I’m feeling really dumb.
    – hyperum
    Dec 10 at 23:24













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So, I'm on a HiDPI machine (XPS 9370) and using the Adwaita cursor; this is on a fresh install of Antergos w/ i3 for context.



I've been playing around with some settings for adapting to HiDPI, but I realized that my cursor changes size depending on what application it is hovering on. Whereas when not hovering over any application or hovering over a few, it may be sized appropriately for the display, but, say when hovering over termite or Firefox, it will decrease to a fraction of the size and become barely visible.



How do I make the cursor size consistent across the entire system?



Xcursor.size does not seem to affect the cursor sizes in the programs I listed.










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So, I'm on a HiDPI machine (XPS 9370) and using the Adwaita cursor; this is on a fresh install of Antergos w/ i3 for context.



I've been playing around with some settings for adapting to HiDPI, but I realized that my cursor changes size depending on what application it is hovering on. Whereas when not hovering over any application or hovering over a few, it may be sized appropriately for the display, but, say when hovering over termite or Firefox, it will decrease to a fraction of the size and become barely visible.



How do I make the cursor size consistent across the entire system?



Xcursor.size does not seem to affect the cursor sizes in the programs I listed.







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  • are you loading your .Xresources file with xrdb every time you start i3? what if you add Xcursor.size: xx into your .Xresources file and run xrxb ~/.Xresources during run time?
    – bgregs
    Dec 10 at 19:05










  • @bgregs Sorry, I was unclear. Xcursor.size doesn’t affect (GTK?) programs like Firefox and termite.
    – hyperum
    Dec 10 at 23:10











  • Yeah, now that I wrote that comment, I’m feeling really dumb.
    – hyperum
    Dec 10 at 23:24
















  • are you loading your .Xresources file with xrdb every time you start i3? what if you add Xcursor.size: xx into your .Xresources file and run xrxb ~/.Xresources during run time?
    – bgregs
    Dec 10 at 19:05










  • @bgregs Sorry, I was unclear. Xcursor.size doesn’t affect (GTK?) programs like Firefox and termite.
    – hyperum
    Dec 10 at 23:10











  • Yeah, now that I wrote that comment, I’m feeling really dumb.
    – hyperum
    Dec 10 at 23:24















are you loading your .Xresources file with xrdb every time you start i3? what if you add Xcursor.size: xx into your .Xresources file and run xrxb ~/.Xresources during run time?
– bgregs
Dec 10 at 19:05




are you loading your .Xresources file with xrdb every time you start i3? what if you add Xcursor.size: xx into your .Xresources file and run xrxb ~/.Xresources during run time?
– bgregs
Dec 10 at 19:05












@bgregs Sorry, I was unclear. Xcursor.size doesn’t affect (GTK?) programs like Firefox and termite.
– hyperum
Dec 10 at 23:10





@bgregs Sorry, I was unclear. Xcursor.size doesn’t affect (GTK?) programs like Firefox and termite.
– hyperum
Dec 10 at 23:10













Yeah, now that I wrote that comment, I’m feeling really dumb.
– hyperum
Dec 10 at 23:24




Yeah, now that I wrote that comment, I’m feeling really dumb.
– hyperum
Dec 10 at 23:24










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To have GTK 3 programs have a consistent cursor size with X, set gtk-cursor-theme-size=n for n as in Xcursor.size. The setting can be found in .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini






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