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I have recently created an Ubuntu 12.04 partition on my Windows 7 laptop. When installing it, I switched to "high contrast" mode, which has rather large cursors (by large I mean about twice as large and thick as they should normally are).

Now I have successfully installed the partition, the large cursors have stuck around even after exiting this high contrast mode, but only when I am hovering over stuff e.g. hovering over text inputs, links, and when resizing windows. All of these cursors are too large. They cursor is only normally sized when the computer should be displaying the normal mouse pointer.

Does anyone know how I might go about fixing this?

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askubuntu.com/questions/75611/mouse-pointer-size-problem then follow these steps. – user43349 Jan 24 '12 at 11:24

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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

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Thank you very much! That would have driven me to insanity after a couple more hours. – Thomas Le Feuvre Apr 27 '12 at 23:21
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Try change the setting in gconf-editor (Alt F2, gconf-editor). It is either under

/desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/cursor_size

or

/apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options/cursor_size
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doesn't work for me. Are there another solutions? – TheDarktonik Oct 14 '11 at 15:07
Thanks, but this didn't work for me. – alberge Dec 4 '11 at 8:58
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Check your mouse theme using the dconf-editor:

  1. Install the package dconf-tools Install dconf-tools

  2. Run dconf-editor

  3. Navigate to org.gnome.desktop.interface and check the mouse cursor settings:

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DMZ-White should be set as the theme. Then log out and back in and see if you still have the problem.

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Thanks, but this didn't work for me. – alberge Dec 4 '11 at 8:59
On my Linux 3.0.0-14, Ubuntu 11.10, metacity 2.34.1 system, using dconf-tools to change the cursor-size number changes the cursor size in several kinds of windows, such as in firefox, gnome-terminal, pan, thunderbird, but does not change its size in emacs, dconf-editor, tool bar, et al – jwpat7 Dec 18 '11 at 2:01
The application of cursor theme isn't consistently handled in 11.10. Changes as above indeed don't impact the normal cursor pointer but do take effect in some cases like when hovering over a link or within a text entry field both the cursor size and theme set in dconf are used not for the cursor displayed while moving around the screen. – fragos Jan 6 '12 at 2:45

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