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After installing the proprietary Nvidia drivers, my mouse cursor looks like this:

Large mouse pointer

The arrow image is much larger than normal. How can I fix it?

Details

  • How I installed the Nvidia drivers:

    1. Install linux-source, linux-headers-generic, and nvidia-current-updates, then reboot.
    2. Run sudo nvidia-xconfig.
    3. Run gksudo nvidia-settings, adjust the absolute position of my two monitors, and save the automatically generated xorg.conf.
    4. Apply the workaround for bug #1057000 to xorg.conf, then reboot.
  • The cursor size settings referred to in this answer are normal.

  • The problem does not happen when the mouse pointer is over Amarok or Firefox.

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  • I did a fresh installation of Ubuntu 13.04 for other reasons and can't reproduce this anymore.
    – ændrük
    Apr 11, 2013 at 20:19
  • I have this problem.
    – Greg
    Nov 10, 2013 at 13:02
  • @Greg Go ahead and open a new question with the details of your setup, and just be sure to link to this one.
    – ændrük
    Nov 10, 2013 at 20:18
  • Same problem with amd drivers.. Fix below does not work. May 5, 2015 at 8:29
  • for me, i got huge cursor in ubuntu after a reboot using open source drivers (intel) and i fixed it by editing ~/.Xresources or ~/.Xdefaults and adding this line : Xcursor.size: 12 and then execute xrdb ~/.Xresources (or ~/.Xdefaults). New application should be fixed, to apply to all, restart X
    – higuita
    Aug 5, 2016 at 8:57

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I got the same problem and in the end, I just switched from lightdm to gdm and that fixed it.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm

then reboot.

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  • I too had this problem and a sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm then log out and in fixed it for me.
    – codeape
    Feb 21, 2013 at 14:59
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    I don't think this problem really justifies switching to a nonstandard display manager. Also, @codeape, that should be posted as a separate answer. And no, it didn't resolve the problem for me.
    – ændrük
    Apr 11, 2013 at 20:22
  • I had this issue in Debian 8.5 and switching to gdm3 worked.
    – Dax Kieran
    Jun 26, 2016 at 12:29

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