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saul7

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Registered: 2024-10-17

Posts: 10

Need help enlarging mouse cursor size

Hi all,
I posted about this a long time ago and never received a solution to this.
I am using Q4OS with the Q4XP Desktop Environment. And there's no place to enlarge
the mouse cursor size. There's a place in the control panel to choose a cursor style but nothing
there to resize it. The cursor is really tiny dinky and very difficult to see for me. One person a long time ago
showed me how to increase it in the terminal to 48 but even though it made it slightly bigger it's still not big enough.
I tried to edit the number bigger but it now isn't allowing me to edit it. I've tried adding big cursor from synaptic and it doesn't
even show as an installed program so no way to make the cursor bigger with that. So can someone please respond with a step
by step way to increase the mouse cursor size? or am I stuck with a dinky cursor? I love this OS in every other way. I just want a bigger mouse cursor. Someone please tell me how to do it. Thank you very much in advance

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

Posts: 6,107

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Re: Need help enlarging mouse cursor size

Force cursor size via X resources. This works even when the Control Panel doesn’t offer a size slider.

- Log in TDE session
- Create or edit your personal X resources file "~/.Xresources"
If the file is empty, that’s normal.
- Add these two lines (you can go big):
Xcursor.size: 64
Xcursor.theme: Adwaita
You can try 32, 48, 64, 72, or even 96 if your eyesight needs it.
- Save and exit
- Load the settings
Run:
$ xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
- Log out completely and log back in

You may need to install Adwaita theme:
$ sudo apt install adwaita-icon-theme

saul7

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Registered: 2024-10-17

Posts: 10

Re: Need help enlarging mouse cursor size

Hi I tried the command ~/.Xresources and it told me permission denied. I tried it in Konsole for super user and told me the same thing. How do I gain access? this is what I get
prois@q4ospc:~$ ~/.Xresources
bash: /home/prois/.Xresources: Permission denied
prois@q4ospc:~$

Last edited by saul7 (2026-02-01 23:01)

q4osteam

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Re: Need help enlarging mouse cursor size

Run in terminal:
$ kwrite $HOME/.Xresources

saul7

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Registered: 2024-10-17

Posts: 10

Re: Need help enlarging mouse cursor size

Here's my result how do I edit this from 48 to 64?
! -- Xft settings --
! Xft.dpi: 96
! Xft.autohint: 0
! Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault
! Xft.hintstyle: hintfull
! Xft.hinting: 1
! Xft.antialias: 1
Xft.rgba: none
Xcursor.size: 48

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

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Re: Need help enlarging mouse cursor size

Change line:
"Xcursor.size: 48"
to:
"Xcursor.size: 64"
save and reboot.

saul7

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Registered: 2024-10-17

Posts: 10

Re: Need help enlarging mouse cursor size

Holy Crap! You did it! It worked. I now have a normal sized cursor thanks to you. Thank you thank you so much for your help I really appreciate it more then you know.

Last edited by saul7 (2026-02-02 18:36)

q4osteam

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Re: Need help enlarging mouse cursor size

We are glad it work for you