GNOME: Universal Access - Larger mouse cursor is not supported by unity-greeter

[Till Kamppeter]

I have a vision problem and due to this I do not see very well the mouse pointer in its original size on my 14" HiDPI 2560x1440 QHD screen of my laptop. Therefore I go to "Universal Access" in the GNOME Settings and choose "Medium" for "Cursor Size".

Due to bug 1722988 I happened to temporarily use GDM instead of LightDM and so I observed that my cursor size change is only applied if I am running my system with GDM as the greeter. With LightDM the cursor stays in original size all the time. So I have currently switched to GDM again to be able to have the larger mouse cursor.

The commmands I have used (as of comment #9 of bug 1722988):

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sudo systemctl disable lightdm
sudo systemctl stop lightdm
sudo systemctl enable gdm #Seems to fail
sudo systemctl start gdm
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3 #Shows lightdm selected
select gdm3, push enter

Reboot
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But the large mouse cursor with GDM is also not perfect, as in some situations it stays in the small size.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I think most of this bug is about unity-greeter, except the last line mentions GDM.

Therefore, I'm reassigning to unity-greeter. Feel free to file a bug against GDM if you like.