Re: FVWM: Changing mouse cursor size
On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 09:23:45AM +0100, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Anno domini 2020 Sun, 16 Feb 00:18:54 + > Thomas Adam scripsit: > > > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 12:57:20AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > > Debian based distros seem to have some kind of scalable "cursor > > > themes". Has anybody (i) tried to use them with fvwm and (ii) > > > managed to actually define a custom scaling factor without using > > > some config dialog from the distro? > > > > however on my > > laptop(s) which have 4K screens (which X11 hates until you mess about with > > all > > manner of DPI settings, and even then the various X widget libraries have no > > clue about scaling), I set the following in my ~/.Xdefaults file: > > > > Xcursor.theme: cursor-theme > > Xcursor.size: 90 > > And you'll need to add these for GTK2 to ~/.gtkrc-2.0: > > gtk-cursor-theme-name="cursor-theme" > gtk-cursor-theme-size=90 Ah, great, thanks! No chance to find this simple solution by duckduckgoing. Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt
Re: FVWM: Changing mouse cursor size
Anno domini 2020 Sun, 16 Feb 00:18:54 + Thomas Adam scripsit: > Hi Dominik, > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 12:57:20AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > Debian based distros seem to have some kind of scalable "cursor > > themes". Has anybody (i) tried to use them with fvwm and (ii) > > managed to actually define a custom scaling factor without using > > some config dialog from the distro? > > I'm not too sure what sort of themes you're referring to, however on my > laptop(s) which have 4K screens (which X11 hates until you mess about with all > manner of DPI settings, and even then the various X widget libraries have no > clue about scaling), I set the following in my ~/.Xdefaults file: > > Xcursor.theme: cursor-theme > Xcursor.size: 90 And you'll need to add these for GTK2 to ~/.gtkrc-2.0: gtk-cursor-theme-name="cursor-theme" gtk-cursor-theme-size=90 > > Presumably, the 'Xcursor.size' is what you're after? > > Kindly, > Thomas > > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...
