Public bug reported:
I am on Artful and have switched to GNOME as GNOME is the default
desktop now and Unity shows some instabilities.
I am using a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon (2nd gen.) notebook with 14-inch
QHD (2560x1440) display, so I am well over the good old 72-dpi CRT
resolution.
With some effort I have at least got a somewhat useful scaling of the
GUI elements (esp. text size), mainly by getting into Unity7, getting
into the Display Settings there, removing my ~1.5 scaling factor,
returning to GNOME, installing the advanced settings manager (gnome-
tweak-tool or so) and setting a scaling factor of ~2). Large text in
accessibilty does not work for me as it makes the text huge.
Now the mouse cursor does no bother on all these changes. It stays
always in its 72-dpi hard-coded size which is really tiny under GNOME on
my QHD screen. It gets easily totally invisible for me, especially on
text fields where it gets a skinny vertical bar.
Therefore there are two fixes needed:
1. Mouse cursor needs to scale with scale factor for the desktop, so
that it is in a good size relation with the rest of the desktop. Please
take this into account for fractional scaling efforts.
2. Even a standard-sized mouse cursor can be too small for people with
vision problems, so the accessibility options need a possibility to
apply a (fractional) adjustable scaling factor to the mouse cursor's
standard size.
Please take these changes into account ASAP, ideally on 17.10 at the
latest. Please consider backporting upstream fixes for achieving this
goal.
** Affects: gnome (Ubuntu)
Importance: Critical
Status: New
** Tags: a11y accessibility fractionalscaling
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Mouse cursor is tiny on HiDPI screens
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