Mouse cursor size is tiny in Chromium (Ubuntu 18.04)












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I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 with default gnome and I installed Tweaks to change my themes. I'm using theme DMZ White for my cursors.



Everything is OK except for Chromium (Version 69.0.3497.81 (Official Build) snap (64-bit)). The mouse cursor is tiny!



I have checked Slack, Postman, System Monitor and Calculator and the cursor is fine on those apps.



I've tried the instructions here to no avail:
Gnome 3: How do I get the same mouse cursors in Chrome?



How can I change my mouse cursor to a normal size in Chromium?










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    @DKBose I have Slack and Postman in my snap directory. The mouse cursor is fine in those applications.

    – rlay3
    Sep 17 '18 at 1:29











  • You may be interested in following community.ubuntu.com/t/… and community.ubuntu.com/t/…

    – DK Bose
    Sep 17 '18 at 1:46











  • @DKBose Both system monitor and calculator are also fine

    – rlay3
    Sep 17 '18 at 3:52











  • Maybe related to bug 1700085 of gnome-shell. Set there if the bug affect to you also. In my case happen with Chrome/Chromium and also with Atom.

    – Pablo Bianchi
    Oct 18 '18 at 23:33


















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I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 with default gnome and I installed Tweaks to change my themes. I'm using theme DMZ White for my cursors.



Everything is OK except for Chromium (Version 69.0.3497.81 (Official Build) snap (64-bit)). The mouse cursor is tiny!



I have checked Slack, Postman, System Monitor and Calculator and the cursor is fine on those apps.



I've tried the instructions here to no avail:
Gnome 3: How do I get the same mouse cursors in Chrome?



How can I change my mouse cursor to a normal size in Chromium?










share|improve this question




















  • 1





    @DKBose I have Slack and Postman in my snap directory. The mouse cursor is fine in those applications.

    – rlay3
    Sep 17 '18 at 1:29











  • You may be interested in following community.ubuntu.com/t/… and community.ubuntu.com/t/…

    – DK Bose
    Sep 17 '18 at 1:46











  • @DKBose Both system monitor and calculator are also fine

    – rlay3
    Sep 17 '18 at 3:52











  • Maybe related to bug 1700085 of gnome-shell. Set there if the bug affect to you also. In my case happen with Chrome/Chromium and also with Atom.

    – Pablo Bianchi
    Oct 18 '18 at 23:33
















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I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 with default gnome and I installed Tweaks to change my themes. I'm using theme DMZ White for my cursors.



Everything is OK except for Chromium (Version 69.0.3497.81 (Official Build) snap (64-bit)). The mouse cursor is tiny!



I have checked Slack, Postman, System Monitor and Calculator and the cursor is fine on those apps.



I've tried the instructions here to no avail:
Gnome 3: How do I get the same mouse cursors in Chrome?



How can I change my mouse cursor to a normal size in Chromium?










share|improve this question
















I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 with default gnome and I installed Tweaks to change my themes. I'm using theme DMZ White for my cursors.



Everything is OK except for Chromium (Version 69.0.3497.81 (Official Build) snap (64-bit)). The mouse cursor is tiny!



I have checked Slack, Postman, System Monitor and Calculator and the cursor is fine on those apps.



I've tried the instructions here to no avail:
Gnome 3: How do I get the same mouse cursors in Chrome?



How can I change my mouse cursor to a normal size in Chromium?







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    @DKBose I have Slack and Postman in my snap directory. The mouse cursor is fine in those applications.

    – rlay3
    Sep 17 '18 at 1:29











  • You may be interested in following community.ubuntu.com/t/… and community.ubuntu.com/t/…

    – DK Bose
    Sep 17 '18 at 1:46











  • @DKBose Both system monitor and calculator are also fine

    – rlay3
    Sep 17 '18 at 3:52











  • Maybe related to bug 1700085 of gnome-shell. Set there if the bug affect to you also. In my case happen with Chrome/Chromium and also with Atom.

    – Pablo Bianchi
    Oct 18 '18 at 23:33
















  • 1





    @DKBose I have Slack and Postman in my snap directory. The mouse cursor is fine in those applications.

    – rlay3
    Sep 17 '18 at 1:29











  • You may be interested in following community.ubuntu.com/t/… and community.ubuntu.com/t/…

    – DK Bose
    Sep 17 '18 at 1:46











  • @DKBose Both system monitor and calculator are also fine

    – rlay3
    Sep 17 '18 at 3:52











  • Maybe related to bug 1700085 of gnome-shell. Set there if the bug affect to you also. In my case happen with Chrome/Chromium and also with Atom.

    – Pablo Bianchi
    Oct 18 '18 at 23:33










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@DKBose I have Slack and Postman in my snap directory. The mouse cursor is fine in those applications.

– rlay3
Sep 17 '18 at 1:29





@DKBose I have Slack and Postman in my snap directory. The mouse cursor is fine in those applications.

– rlay3
Sep 17 '18 at 1:29













You may be interested in following community.ubuntu.com/t/… and community.ubuntu.com/t/…

– DK Bose
Sep 17 '18 at 1:46





You may be interested in following community.ubuntu.com/t/… and community.ubuntu.com/t/…

– DK Bose
Sep 17 '18 at 1:46













@DKBose Both system monitor and calculator are also fine

– rlay3
Sep 17 '18 at 3:52





@DKBose Both system monitor and calculator are also fine

– rlay3
Sep 17 '18 at 3:52













Maybe related to bug 1700085 of gnome-shell. Set there if the bug affect to you also. In my case happen with Chrome/Chromium and also with Atom.

– Pablo Bianchi
Oct 18 '18 at 23:33







Maybe related to bug 1700085 of gnome-shell. Set there if the bug affect to you also. In my case happen with Chrome/Chromium and also with Atom.

– Pablo Bianchi
Oct 18 '18 at 23:33












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See my answer to Is there any way to make snap installed apps look more native?. Getting snaps to obey various aspects of the user's theme choices is a work in progress.



More recently, comment #24 related to Ubuntu 18.04 in Graphical snaps don't honour the desktop theme has this:




This is not a uniform bug. Chromium for instance on snap does find the titlebar theme, but not the mouse theme. Gnome Calculator as seen above finds only default theme, but keeps the user choice of mouse pointer just fine.




At this point, all I can advise is patience because the developers are aware of the issue.






share|improve this answer



















  • 2





    In case it helps anyone, I uninstalled the snap version and installed the debian version of Chromium from Ubuntu Software (it's the one with the star ratings). The mouse cursor size is fine in that one.

    – rlay3
    Sep 17 '18 at 23:09











  • @rlay3 Thanks - that worked for me (XPS 15 9570).

    – robocat
    Dec 4 '18 at 22:08



















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I had the same problem with various snap applications.
The following solution worked for me:



add the following line to your ~/.bashrc



export XCURSOR_PATH=$RUNTIME/usr/share/icons





share|improve this answer
























  • This didn't work for me - but following @rlay3's comment above did work.

    – robocat
    Dec 4 '18 at 22:09



















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Are you on a display scale other than 100%? I had mine at 3200x1800 with 200% scale, and my cursor was tiny just on Chrome. I changed to 1920x1080, 100% scale on my main display because I was using a second monitor that only supported that resolution (and apparently gnome or ubuntu doesn't support different scales per monitor?). That fixed the cursor issue for the time being. Maybe try going down to 100% scale and lowering your resolution.



Then, later I was using my laptop without the monitor, cursor was fine, and then I plug in the monitor again, and the cursor is huge on Chrome. This time, "quitting" Chrome and re-opening didn't help, but quitting and killing all the lingering "chrome" processes from ps -ef|grep chrom fixed it.



So there are two possible solutions for particular circumstances. I don't have a general solution, unfortunately.






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  • use the comment section to post the above matter, not as an answer

    – NIMISHAN
    Nov 29 '18 at 3:21











  • that was my thought but not enough reputation :(

    – sjlevin
    Nov 29 '18 at 3:28



















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I had the same problem, I googled for something like two hours without finding a solution. It seems like Chromium is not aware of custom cursor setting updates because it keeps the one in use during his installation. If you set up the cursor you want and then you uninstall and install Chromium again you will have the confirmation. Let's hope they will fix this bug soon.






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    See my answer to Is there any way to make snap installed apps look more native?. Getting snaps to obey various aspects of the user's theme choices is a work in progress.



    More recently, comment #24 related to Ubuntu 18.04 in Graphical snaps don't honour the desktop theme has this:




    This is not a uniform bug. Chromium for instance on snap does find the titlebar theme, but not the mouse theme. Gnome Calculator as seen above finds only default theme, but keeps the user choice of mouse pointer just fine.




    At this point, all I can advise is patience because the developers are aware of the issue.






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      In case it helps anyone, I uninstalled the snap version and installed the debian version of Chromium from Ubuntu Software (it's the one with the star ratings). The mouse cursor size is fine in that one.

      – rlay3
      Sep 17 '18 at 23:09











    • @rlay3 Thanks - that worked for me (XPS 15 9570).

      – robocat
      Dec 4 '18 at 22:08
















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    See my answer to Is there any way to make snap installed apps look more native?. Getting snaps to obey various aspects of the user's theme choices is a work in progress.



    More recently, comment #24 related to Ubuntu 18.04 in Graphical snaps don't honour the desktop theme has this:




    This is not a uniform bug. Chromium for instance on snap does find the titlebar theme, but not the mouse theme. Gnome Calculator as seen above finds only default theme, but keeps the user choice of mouse pointer just fine.




    At this point, all I can advise is patience because the developers are aware of the issue.






    share|improve this answer



















    • 2





      In case it helps anyone, I uninstalled the snap version and installed the debian version of Chromium from Ubuntu Software (it's the one with the star ratings). The mouse cursor size is fine in that one.

      – rlay3
      Sep 17 '18 at 23:09











    • @rlay3 Thanks - that worked for me (XPS 15 9570).

      – robocat
      Dec 4 '18 at 22:08














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    See my answer to Is there any way to make snap installed apps look more native?. Getting snaps to obey various aspects of the user's theme choices is a work in progress.



    More recently, comment #24 related to Ubuntu 18.04 in Graphical snaps don't honour the desktop theme has this:




    This is not a uniform bug. Chromium for instance on snap does find the titlebar theme, but not the mouse theme. Gnome Calculator as seen above finds only default theme, but keeps the user choice of mouse pointer just fine.




    At this point, all I can advise is patience because the developers are aware of the issue.






    share|improve this answer













    See my answer to Is there any way to make snap installed apps look more native?. Getting snaps to obey various aspects of the user's theme choices is a work in progress.



    More recently, comment #24 related to Ubuntu 18.04 in Graphical snaps don't honour the desktop theme has this:




    This is not a uniform bug. Chromium for instance on snap does find the titlebar theme, but not the mouse theme. Gnome Calculator as seen above finds only default theme, but keeps the user choice of mouse pointer just fine.




    At this point, all I can advise is patience because the developers are aware of the issue.







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      In case it helps anyone, I uninstalled the snap version and installed the debian version of Chromium from Ubuntu Software (it's the one with the star ratings). The mouse cursor size is fine in that one.

      – rlay3
      Sep 17 '18 at 23:09











    • @rlay3 Thanks - that worked for me (XPS 15 9570).

      – robocat
      Dec 4 '18 at 22:08














    • 2





      In case it helps anyone, I uninstalled the snap version and installed the debian version of Chromium from Ubuntu Software (it's the one with the star ratings). The mouse cursor size is fine in that one.

      – rlay3
      Sep 17 '18 at 23:09











    • @rlay3 Thanks - that worked for me (XPS 15 9570).

      – robocat
      Dec 4 '18 at 22:08








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    In case it helps anyone, I uninstalled the snap version and installed the debian version of Chromium from Ubuntu Software (it's the one with the star ratings). The mouse cursor size is fine in that one.

    – rlay3
    Sep 17 '18 at 23:09





    In case it helps anyone, I uninstalled the snap version and installed the debian version of Chromium from Ubuntu Software (it's the one with the star ratings). The mouse cursor size is fine in that one.

    – rlay3
    Sep 17 '18 at 23:09













    @rlay3 Thanks - that worked for me (XPS 15 9570).

    – robocat
    Dec 4 '18 at 22:08





    @rlay3 Thanks - that worked for me (XPS 15 9570).

    – robocat
    Dec 4 '18 at 22:08













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    I had the same problem with various snap applications.
    The following solution worked for me:



    add the following line to your ~/.bashrc



    export XCURSOR_PATH=$RUNTIME/usr/share/icons





    share|improve this answer
























    • This didn't work for me - but following @rlay3's comment above did work.

      – robocat
      Dec 4 '18 at 22:09
















    2














    I had the same problem with various snap applications.
    The following solution worked for me:



    add the following line to your ~/.bashrc



    export XCURSOR_PATH=$RUNTIME/usr/share/icons





    share|improve this answer
























    • This didn't work for me - but following @rlay3's comment above did work.

      – robocat
      Dec 4 '18 at 22:09














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    I had the same problem with various snap applications.
    The following solution worked for me:



    add the following line to your ~/.bashrc



    export XCURSOR_PATH=$RUNTIME/usr/share/icons





    share|improve this answer













    I had the same problem with various snap applications.
    The following solution worked for me:



    add the following line to your ~/.bashrc



    export XCURSOR_PATH=$RUNTIME/usr/share/icons






    share|improve this answer












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    • This didn't work for me - but following @rlay3's comment above did work.

      – robocat
      Dec 4 '18 at 22:09



















    • This didn't work for me - but following @rlay3's comment above did work.

      – robocat
      Dec 4 '18 at 22:09

















    This didn't work for me - but following @rlay3's comment above did work.

    – robocat
    Dec 4 '18 at 22:09





    This didn't work for me - but following @rlay3's comment above did work.

    – robocat
    Dec 4 '18 at 22:09











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    Are you on a display scale other than 100%? I had mine at 3200x1800 with 200% scale, and my cursor was tiny just on Chrome. I changed to 1920x1080, 100% scale on my main display because I was using a second monitor that only supported that resolution (and apparently gnome or ubuntu doesn't support different scales per monitor?). That fixed the cursor issue for the time being. Maybe try going down to 100% scale and lowering your resolution.



    Then, later I was using my laptop without the monitor, cursor was fine, and then I plug in the monitor again, and the cursor is huge on Chrome. This time, "quitting" Chrome and re-opening didn't help, but quitting and killing all the lingering "chrome" processes from ps -ef|grep chrom fixed it.



    So there are two possible solutions for particular circumstances. I don't have a general solution, unfortunately.






    share|improve this answer
























    • use the comment section to post the above matter, not as an answer

      – NIMISHAN
      Nov 29 '18 at 3:21











    • that was my thought but not enough reputation :(

      – sjlevin
      Nov 29 '18 at 3:28
















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    Are you on a display scale other than 100%? I had mine at 3200x1800 with 200% scale, and my cursor was tiny just on Chrome. I changed to 1920x1080, 100% scale on my main display because I was using a second monitor that only supported that resolution (and apparently gnome or ubuntu doesn't support different scales per monitor?). That fixed the cursor issue for the time being. Maybe try going down to 100% scale and lowering your resolution.



    Then, later I was using my laptop without the monitor, cursor was fine, and then I plug in the monitor again, and the cursor is huge on Chrome. This time, "quitting" Chrome and re-opening didn't help, but quitting and killing all the lingering "chrome" processes from ps -ef|grep chrom fixed it.



    So there are two possible solutions for particular circumstances. I don't have a general solution, unfortunately.






    share|improve this answer
























    • use the comment section to post the above matter, not as an answer

      – NIMISHAN
      Nov 29 '18 at 3:21











    • that was my thought but not enough reputation :(

      – sjlevin
      Nov 29 '18 at 3:28














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    Are you on a display scale other than 100%? I had mine at 3200x1800 with 200% scale, and my cursor was tiny just on Chrome. I changed to 1920x1080, 100% scale on my main display because I was using a second monitor that only supported that resolution (and apparently gnome or ubuntu doesn't support different scales per monitor?). That fixed the cursor issue for the time being. Maybe try going down to 100% scale and lowering your resolution.



    Then, later I was using my laptop without the monitor, cursor was fine, and then I plug in the monitor again, and the cursor is huge on Chrome. This time, "quitting" Chrome and re-opening didn't help, but quitting and killing all the lingering "chrome" processes from ps -ef|grep chrom fixed it.



    So there are two possible solutions for particular circumstances. I don't have a general solution, unfortunately.






    share|improve this answer













    Are you on a display scale other than 100%? I had mine at 3200x1800 with 200% scale, and my cursor was tiny just on Chrome. I changed to 1920x1080, 100% scale on my main display because I was using a second monitor that only supported that resolution (and apparently gnome or ubuntu doesn't support different scales per monitor?). That fixed the cursor issue for the time being. Maybe try going down to 100% scale and lowering your resolution.



    Then, later I was using my laptop without the monitor, cursor was fine, and then I plug in the monitor again, and the cursor is huge on Chrome. This time, "quitting" Chrome and re-opening didn't help, but quitting and killing all the lingering "chrome" processes from ps -ef|grep chrom fixed it.



    So there are two possible solutions for particular circumstances. I don't have a general solution, unfortunately.







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    • use the comment section to post the above matter, not as an answer

      – NIMISHAN
      Nov 29 '18 at 3:21











    • that was my thought but not enough reputation :(

      – sjlevin
      Nov 29 '18 at 3:28



















    • use the comment section to post the above matter, not as an answer

      – NIMISHAN
      Nov 29 '18 at 3:21











    • that was my thought but not enough reputation :(

      – sjlevin
      Nov 29 '18 at 3:28

















    use the comment section to post the above matter, not as an answer

    – NIMISHAN
    Nov 29 '18 at 3:21





    use the comment section to post the above matter, not as an answer

    – NIMISHAN
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    that was my thought but not enough reputation :(

    – sjlevin
    Nov 29 '18 at 3:28





    that was my thought but not enough reputation :(

    – sjlevin
    Nov 29 '18 at 3:28











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    I had the same problem, I googled for something like two hours without finding a solution. It seems like Chromium is not aware of custom cursor setting updates because it keeps the one in use during his installation. If you set up the cursor you want and then you uninstall and install Chromium again you will have the confirmation. Let's hope they will fix this bug soon.






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      I had the same problem, I googled for something like two hours without finding a solution. It seems like Chromium is not aware of custom cursor setting updates because it keeps the one in use during his installation. If you set up the cursor you want and then you uninstall and install Chromium again you will have the confirmation. Let's hope they will fix this bug soon.






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        I had the same problem, I googled for something like two hours without finding a solution. It seems like Chromium is not aware of custom cursor setting updates because it keeps the one in use during his installation. If you set up the cursor you want and then you uninstall and install Chromium again you will have the confirmation. Let's hope they will fix this bug soon.






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        I had the same problem, I googled for something like two hours without finding a solution. It seems like Chromium is not aware of custom cursor setting updates because it keeps the one in use during his installation. If you set up the cursor you want and then you uninstall and install Chromium again you will have the confirmation. Let's hope they will fix this bug soon.







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