cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/17545984

UPDATE IN COMMENTS!!

Hey there, I don’t know if any of you noticed something similar recently, but I have noticed my cursors have gone HUGE, like 2x what it should be at least. I think this is related to the affected apps using a beta version of Libadwaita 1.6, but I just wanted to confirm here before I create an issue in the repo. I use 200% scaling, GNOME 45, Fedora 39. Does anybody else have this problem? Thanks!!

How it should look (in Pods, firefox and most other apps)

How it looks in Ptyxis

How it looks in Adwaita Demo (latest update, which bumped the libadwaita version to 1.6)

  • @[email protected]English
    81•6 months ago

    Try the following:

    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-size 12

    Or if that’s too small, then a different value instead of 12.

    Source

    • SpectranoxEnglish
      10•6 months ago

      I will never see mouse cursors the same. Thanks random internet person!

    • Pasta DentalOP
      4•6 months ago

      I didn’t really expect this thread to turn into this, but I have to say I am glad it did XD

      For the cursor-size setting, it does not seem to be the issue here, it simply makes it smaller on the normal windows, but about the normal size on the affected apps. Like the person on the GNOME community on here suggested, downgrading the GNOME platform runtime seems to be the issue, and since this only happens on nightly/bleeding edge GNOME apps, I think the issue is there. Thx though!

  • LoudWaterHombre
    17•6 months ago

    I swear to god I have such a massive cursor I had to get surgery so I can wear short pants in summer.

  • RiskableEnglish
    15•6 months ago

    With big freedom come big cursors. Every click is a boom of libration!

  • @[email protected]
    9•6 months ago

    I’ve seen this happen after switching to wayland. Changing the cursor size and then changing it back solved the issue for me.

    • Pasta DentalOP
      1•6 months ago

      What’s weird is I’ve been using Wayland since I got this computer 1.5 years ago and it started doing this out of nowhere

  • SpectranoxEnglish
    4•6 months ago

    I had similar behaviour when testing KDE 6, so it’s not just a Gnome/GTK/Libadwaita/I hate that entire project issue.

    I solved it by downloading a custom cursor theme, putting it in ~/.local/share/icons and then giving each Flatpak app access to that directory (for some reason, on KDE, they didn’t by default).

    You may need to log-out log-in to see the changes.

  • LalSalaamComradeEnglish
    3•6 months ago

    Could it be because you’re on Xwayland? I’m running Icecat, and I have weird cursor.

  • @KISSmyOSFeddit
    2•6 months ago

    I noticed this too. Cursor suddenly twice as big, with 200% scaling. But I use Hyprland, not Gnome.

    • Pasta DentalOP
      1•6 months ago

      Somebody on the GNOME community version of this post suggested downgrading GNOME platform runtime

  • @taanegl
    2•6 months ago

    I’m assuming this may be a Flatpak issue. Have you turned on fractional scaling?