From: Alexander Asteroth <alexander.asteroth@soeven.de>
To: Gary Johnson <lambdatronic@disroot.org>
Cc: alex@soeven.de, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: X11 cursor size
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2022 10:18:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o7xp5use.fsf@soeven.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fsj2f2d4.fsf@disroot.org>
Dear Gary,
I tried this already an the effect is, that the default pointer (in X11
outside of any window) changes from a cross to a left_ptr but the size does
not change. If I understand correctly, I need to have type1 fonts for
that which I included in my config by adding `font-xfree86-type1` to my
systems package list (but the corresponding path doesn't show up in the
X11-fontpath).
Also I'm wondering how to set the cursor size because by just executing
`xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr` I set the cursor shape/type but how do
I specify the size? Recepies from the net suggest to do this via a
`fonts.alias` but that doesn't seem to have an effect either.
Cheers,
Alex
On Fri, Jul 15 2022, 18:13:06, Gary Johnson <lambdatronic@disroot.org> wrote:
> alex@soeven.de writes:
>>
>> My problem is the following: I use guix with X11 and EXWM as (only)
>> window manager. I have a 13" laptop with 4k screen and therefore the
>> X11-pointer/cursor is so small, that most of the time I don't even see
>> it. All solutions to increase the cursor size without using gnome or
>> similar tools involve the installation of a scalable font and then
>> incresing the size of the cursor. However I don't manage to make this
>> work on guix.
>>
>> Does anyone maybe have a working solution for this which they can share?
>>
>> Cheers, Alex
>
> Hi Alex,
>
> I also run EXWM as my window manager under Guix System. I manage my
> keyboard and cursor settings in my ~/.xsession file. For the cursor
> settings, I use xsetroot like so:
>
> ```
> # Change cursor to left arrow
> xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr
> ```
>
> Take a look at its man page for quite a few options related to setting
> the cursor file and size.
>
> Happy hacking!
> Gary
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-16 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-15 10:46 X11 cursor size alex
2022-07-15 12:08 ` alex
2022-07-15 22:13 ` Gary Johnson
2022-07-16 8:18 ` Alexander Asteroth [this message]
2022-07-16 8:44 ` alex
2022-07-17 23:45 ` Gary Johnson
2022-07-18 5:46 ` alex
2022-07-18 13:21 ` Gary Johnson
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