Re: FVWM: Changing mouse cursor size

Anno domini 2020 Sun, 16 Feb 00:18:54 +0000
 Thomas Adam scripsit:
> Hi Dominik,
> 
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 12:57:20AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> > Debian based distros seem to have some kind of scalable "cursor
> > themes".  Has anybody (i) tried to use them with fvwm and (ii)
> > managed to actually define a custom scaling factor without using
> > some config dialog from the distro?
> 
> I'm not too sure what sort of themes you're referring to, however on my
> laptop(s) which have 4K screens (which X11 hates until you mess about with all
> manner of DPI settings, and even then the various X widget libraries have no
> clue about scaling), I set the following in my ~/.Xdefaults file:
> 
>     Xcursor.theme: cursor-theme
>     Xcursor.size: 90

And you'll need to add these for GTK2 to ~/.gtkrc-2.0:

gtk-cursor-theme-name="cursor-theme"
gtk-cursor-theme-size=90

> 
> Presumably, the 'Xcursor.size' is what you're after?
> 
> Kindly,
> Thomas
> 
> 



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