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Large cursors setting not working
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System Information
Operating system: Linux-5.2.11-1-MANJARO-x86_64-with-arch-Manjaro-Linux 64 Bits
Graphics card: GeForce GTX 970/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 435.21

Blender Version
Broken: version: 2.81 (sub 12), branch: master, commit date: 2019-10-01 19:51, hash: rB3b23685c7dc1
Worked: 2.81 from 2019-09-25
Worked: 2.80 official release

Short description of error
Turning on large cursors in the interface preferences no longer changes the cursor when in edit mode (I'm not sure where else large cursors applies).

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error

  1. Load factory defaults
  2. In preferences in the Interface section, turn on Large cursors
  3. Select default cube
  4. Press tab to go into edit mode, and notice the mouse cursor

In previous versions it showed a crosshair that was bright white and the lines that make up the cross were about 2px thick. Very easy to see. In the Oct 1st version, the cursor is nearly the same color as the background, and 1px thick lines...similar to show it's shown when large cursors is disabled.

I'll attach two screenshots, one from 2.81 2019-10-01, and the other from 2.81 2019-09-25. In both screenshots, the cursor is in the bottom right, and large cursors is enabled. They should look the same with a bright white cursor, but they're not.

2.81 2019-10-01:

2.81 2019-09-25

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rBdfcda05242d3 Fix T70467: large cursors option on Linux not showing clear crosshair

Event Timeline

Val Acar (valacar) created this task.Oct 3 2019, 1:29 AM
Harley Acheson (harley) added a subscriber: Harley Acheson (harley).Oct 3 2019, 1:59 AM
Brecht Van Lommel (brecht) lowered the priority of this task from 90 to 30.Oct 3 2019, 12:20 PM
Brecht Van Lommel (brecht) added a subscriber: Brecht Van Lommel (brecht).

We now use the system cursors by default for this. It seems the cross cursor on your system is really subtle for some reason. Which desktop environment are you using? Are you using a specific cursor theme?

We could use Blender's own cursor here again, but for me the standard cursor looks better and I would like to understand why it's different here.

Val Acar (valacar) added a comment.Oct 3 2019, 6:18 PM

I'm using XFCE as my desktop environment on Manjaro . My cursor theme is called Breeze (from the package xcursor-breeze on Arch-based linux distros) and it was installed and enabled by default; I haven't installed any extra themes. Also, the size is set to 16px.

The Adwaita cursor theme is also installed, which I believe is the GTK default, and it does look much better since it has dark lines for the cross and a white outline for good contrast, so I'll switch to using that.

Anyway, there's still the problem of the Large Cursor setting not having any effect in recent Blender 2.81 builds. I'm not sure what you should do, although I think it would be nice for Blender to have its own (optional) cursor theme that fits well with the default Blender theme. I don't think you can always rely on the system default, like in my case with the Breeze cursor theme.

Brecht Van Lommel (brecht) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Resolved by committing rBdfcda05242d3: Fix T70467: large cursors option on Linux not showing clear crosshair.Oct 4 2019, 6:03 PM
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Brecht Van Lommel (brecht) added a commit: rBdfcda05242d3: Fix T70467: large cursors option on Linux not showing clear crosshair.