Bug 31113

Summary:	sddm has absurdly small mouse pointer and is very dim.
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	w unruh <unruh>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	UPSTREAM ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	geiger.david68210
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Source RPM:	sddm	CVE:
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Description w unruh 2022-11-12 16:53:35 CET

Description of problem:
When I boot up and try to log in via sddm, the mouse cursor is very small and the screen by default is very dim. This makes it impossible to log in bright light.

It seems impossible to have the default brightness be high, or to change the size of the pointer. Fn F7 does not work in sddm (that is the screen brightness key which does work once I have logged in) and I have not figured out how to change the size of the mouse pointer in sddm (I have a large pointer in plasma, but again that only works once I have logged on. Part of the problem is that I have a Dell xps13 the a 2000x1000 screen, so the pointer (about 10 pixels in size) is almost invisible.

Note that scren tapping also does not work in sddm. I have to press the buttons.


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Comment 1 sturmvogel 2022-11-12 17:34:09 CET

Edit your /etc/environment and add

XCURSOR_SIZE=64

Comment 2 sturmvogel 2022-11-12 17:49:41 CET

Regarding the brightness: This won't be fixed as sddm devs think this is a minor annoyance which only affects laptop users...
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/1189

Status: NEW => UPSTREAM

Comment 3 David GEIGER 2023-07-13 05:58:06 CEST

This should be fixed in new sddm 0.20.0 released about 3 weeks:

Dylan Lees (1):

    Set XCURSOR_SIZE in XorgDisplayServer::start


https://github.com/sddm/sddm/releases/tag/v0.20.0

CC: (none) => geiger.david68210

David GEIGER 2023-07-13 05:59:10 CEST

Version: 8 => Cauldron