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I am running Ubuntu 18.04, and after playing with the graphical settings I ended up having a different pointer size outside and outside of opened windows (see image below). I already tried changing the size in Tweaks and following what described here but I had no success. I took care of rebooting between steps. How do you suggest to fix this?

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albus_c
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    I guess I can but I'm a bit lost. How do you suggest to proceed? – albus_c Apr 17 '19 at 08:46
  • I can select a different size in system settings, but it doesn't change the cursor size in the wild (outside of a window). – albus_c Apr 17 '19 at 08:52
  • Thanks! Cursor theme: DMZ-White (`/usr/share/icons/DMZ-White/cursor.theme` from `sudo update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme`). Screen resolution: 3840x2160. Cursor size: 24. – albus_c Apr 17 '19 at 08:58
  • Could this be due to `sudo apt install ubuntu-unity-desktop`, followed by `sudo apt remove ubuntu-unity-desktop`? I gave that command a while ago. – albus_c Apr 17 '19 at 09:00
  • can you have a look on this https://i.stack.imgur.com/nOzTP.gif . from where did you get the value for Cursor size: 24.. – PRATAP Apr 17 '19 at 09:05
  • Sorry 40. I set it via `dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/interface/cursor-size 40` – albus_c Apr 17 '19 at 09:09
  • https://i.stack.imgur.com/nyonn.gif have a look.. dconf-editor and system-settings.. when i select the cursor sizes on system settings.. the value for dconf-editor also changing.. i suggest you to download a cursor theme which is have a high value from gnome-look.org and see.. – PRATAP Apr 17 '19 at 09:24

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I had this problem and found out that it was caused by selecting lightdm from the display managers when I installed lxde on my computer.

I removed lightdm and reinstalled it, this time selecting GTK3 from the list.

Back to normal mouse pointer sizes.

James Dedon
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