Re: Mouse cursor size in chromium

On Sun, Jul 04, 2021 at 08:06:38PM -0700, Greg Steuck wrote:
> Hi Charlene,
>
> Charlene Wendling <julianaito@posteo.jp> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I had a similar problem since i wanted a bigger cursor, and use
> > iridium.
>
> Sadly the recipe below doesn't seem to work for chromium. I even created
> a new user with just the settings you sent and they do work in other
> places, just not in chromium :(
>
> > I dropped .Xdefaults/.Xresources Xcursor.* properties and put
> > this in my .xsession (see `pkg_info xcursor-themes`)
> >
> > --8<--
> > export XCURSOR_THEME=Adwaita
> > export XCURSOR_PATH="/usr/local/share/icons/"
> > export XCURSOR_SIZE=32
> > -->8--
>
> This is good hint, I like it better to manage things in env instead of
> magic X resources I don't quite understand.
>

I managed to get a large Adwaita cursor in chrome by creating a
${HOME}/.icons/default/index.theme file containing

[Icon Theme]
Inherits=Adwaita

and then

export XCURSOR_PATH=${HOME}/.icons:/usr/local/share/icons
export XCURSOR_SIZE=128

(the last version is huge for debugging purposes)

Apparently there's something broken in the index.theme provided by
Adwaita or in the way chrome is parsing it...

$HOME/.icons is properly unveiled in chrome.main.
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Matthieu Herrb