Re: High Resolution Gnome

[Jason Simanek <jsimanek gmail com>]

Hello again,

On 09/05/2012 06:54 PM, Jason Simanek wrote:
> My primary objective – for now: I would like to have (or create if
> needed) a mouse cursor theme that is either scalable or larger.

So I actually took a look at the DMZ cursor theme and the artwork is 
already at 64 pixels and is scaled to whatever desired size, which 
should be plenty large even for screens of greater resolution than my 
own 15" 1920x1080 screen.

Once I figured out that the artwork for a larger mouse cursor was 
already available I went about trying to change my cursor's size. 
Unfortunately, this is proving to be quite a mess. Apparently the 
default 16px size for the cursor is buried in several places in the system.

Here is what I have done so far which has given me the desired cursor 
size (32px) on some of my system's GUI:

1  Dconf editor: org/gnome/desktop/interface > cursor-size: 32

2  sudo gedit /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/index.theme > CursorSize=32

3  sudo gedit /usr/share/icons/DMZ-Black/index.theme > CursorSize=32

4  gedit ~/.Xresources > Xcursor.size: 32

5  sudo gedit /root/.Xresources > Xcursor.size: 32

Even with all of these changes I still see the 16px cursor on the Gnome 
Shell Overlay, over my desktop, using Nautilus... probably some other 
places.

I know I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and that Ubuntu has a reputation for 
making a mess of things like this, but can anybody explain how to change 
my mouse cursor size and if there's anything we can do to untangle this 
mess?

Jason Simanek