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In the past dconf-editor could be used to change the cursor size.

I installed Ubuntu 20.04. I changed the value to 64 rebooted, and still the size of the cursor is unchanged.

How to increase the cursor size on Ubuntu 20.04?

guettli
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Go to the Settings panel... choose Universal Access, then Cursor Size... or in newer systems Accessibility, Seeing, then Cursor Size...

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heynnema
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  • Great! This is much easier than dconf-editor. Thank you! – guettli Aug 13 '20 at 19:06
  • @guettli Glad it worked for you. Thanks for the feedback. – heynnema Aug 13 '20 at 20:21
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    I have a weird behavior: basically the mouse has increased on apps, like firefox, but it shows still the original (small) size, when I focus back on desktop...any idea? – jjrr Nov 18 '20 at 15:36
  • @jjrr What version Ubuntu? Running Wayland? GNOME? – heynnema Nov 18 '20 at 16:31
  • sorry: I am also on U 20.04. The issue holds on both Cinnamon 4.4.8 and GNOME 3.36. I have increased the related values in dconf for all the related sections, such as /org/cinnamon/desktop/interface/cursor-size or /org/gnome/desktop/interface/cursor-size – jjrr Nov 20 '20 at 09:12
  • ok, I upgraded to U 20.10 and it seems to be working - I think the issue is related with the graphical card, as libnvidia-compute-440 was preventing do-release-upgrade (I fixed it downgrading it). During the upgrade the nvidia server crashed (fortunately, it did not prevent the upgrade) – jjrr Nov 20 '20 at 18:00
  • @jjrr You may have to select the nouveau video driver, and then sudo apt-get purge *nvidia* to remove all Nvidia software, and reinstall the proper version for your model Nvidia card and 20.xx. – heynnema Nov 20 '20 at 18:20
  • yeah, thanks @heynnema -- I have just installed nvidia-driver-455 ... for now it seems all fine – jjrr Nov 21 '20 at 12:41
  • What can I do if the cursor theme does not have other sizes in it? My cursor theme only has one really small size. – Aaron Franke Dec 28 '21 at 19:48
  • @AaronFranke What version Ubuntu? Have you tried all of the answers shown here? – heynnema Dec 28 '21 at 21:25
  • I'm on 22.04 in Hyper-V. Most of the time it is large but I can't see the whole arrow: lower part is missing. Before PyCharm it is small. UPDATE: Now I restarted PyCharm. I have large arrow there too. :-) – Arpad Horvath Aug 03 '23 at 11:15
  • Great, but it's now under "Accessibility -> Seeing". – Joe Corneli Oct 02 '24 at 10:32
  • @JoeCorneli Thanks. I updated my answer. – heynnema Oct 02 '24 at 12:42
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dconf-editor still works for me in Ubuntu 20.04.01...

dconf-editor set mouse cursor to 60

Are you sure you clicked "Apply" (or changed the view) before exiting?

dconf-editor "Apply" bar

Mark Smith
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Setting-->Accessibility-->Cursor Size Now you can choose from small to the largest.

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