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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, 2018 at 19:05
  • @bgregs Sorry, I was unclear. Xcursor.size doesn’t affect (GTK?) programs like Firefox and termite.
    – hpm
    Dec 10, 2018 at 23:10
  • Yeah, now that I wrote that comment, I’m feeling really dumb.
    – hpm
    Dec 10, 2018 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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