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Cursors too big on Windows, 1920x1080, 100% scaling

Open ericQronaveter opened this issue 7 months ago • 6 comments

1920x1080p monitor, 100% scaling on Windows

I love all of your cursors man, I really do, but they are too big on Windows due to the HiDpi multi resolution nature of the .cur files. Since there are multiple images at different canvas sizes, Windows has too choose which one to use and it always uses the largest cursors for some reason. Multiple people have complained about this already. I exclusively use your cursors but can really only use your notwaita cursors because they're the only ones that scale correctly, well except the busy aka. loading icons which still get scaled up really big for some reason.

I hope somebody can address this issue since your cursors are some of the best if not the best out there. Or at least release a 32x32 version for your cursors for people with non HiDPI displays.

Thanks

ericQronaveter avatar May 09 '25 11:05 ericQronaveter

Regular Cursors are appeared quite big on Windows 1536x960 200% scaling.

You may use Screen Simulator to mimic others' screen on your screen.

fuweichin avatar May 21 '25 20:05 fuweichin

if someone can point to the right resources or documentation, I'd love to fix this. I'm also facing the same problem.

AnirudhMemani avatar Jun 14 '25 11:06 AnirudhMemani

if someone can point to the right resources or documentation, I'd love to fix this. I'm also facing the same problem.

I have fixed this pretty much the same day I posted it. The way these cursors are packed is one .cur file actually has multiple cursor sizes in it. So if you were to open a .cur in GIMP you would see like 8 cursors stacked on top of eachother each one with their seperate layer. Windows then determines which one is the best, this is done for different monitor scaling and resolutions, but for some reason Windows chooses the wrong ones. I opened all the .cur files in GIMP and removed all layers but the smallest cursor for all the 21 cursors, saved them in a folder and manually selected each one in the Windows cursor menu. Maybe like 15min of work, hope this helps.

ericQronaveter avatar Jun 14 '25 11:06 ericQronaveter

if someone can point to the right resources or documentation, I'd love to fix this. I'm also facing the same problem.

I have fixed this pretty much the same day I posted it. The way these cursors are packed is one .cur file actually has multiple cursor sizes in it. So if you were to open a .cur in GIMP you would see like 8 cursors stacked on top of eachother each one with their seperate layer. Windows then determines which one is the best, this is done for different monitor scaling and resolutions, but for some reason Windows chooses the wrong ones. I opened all the .cur files in GIMP and removed all layers but the smallest cursor for all the 21 cursors, saved them in a folder and manually selected each one in the Windows cursor menu. Maybe like 15min of work, hope this helps.

can you share the folder?

AnirudhMemani avatar Jun 14 '25 12:06 AnirudhMemani

if someone can point to the right resources or documentation, I'd love to fix this. I'm also facing the same problem.

I have fixed this pretty much the same day I posted it. The way these cursors are packed is one .cur file actually has multiple cursor sizes in it. So if you were to open a .cur in GIMP you would see like 8 cursors stacked on top of eachother each one with their seperate layer. Windows then determines which one is the best, this is done for different monitor scaling and resolutions, but for some reason Windows chooses the wrong ones. I opened all the .cur files in GIMP and removed all layers but the smallest cursor for all the 21 cursors, saved them in a folder and manually selected each one in the Windows cursor menu. Maybe like 15min of work, hope this helps.

can you share the folder?

Here you go MacOS Cursors edited.zip

ericQronaveter avatar Jun 14 '25 13:06 ericQronaveter

if someone can point to the right resources or documentation, I'd love to fix this. I'm also facing the same problem.

I have fixed this pretty much the same day I posted it. The way these cursors are packed is one .cur file actually has multiple cursor sizes in it. So if you were to open a .cur in GIMP you would see like 8 cursors stacked on top of eachother each one with their seperate layer. Windows then determines which one is the best, this is done for different monitor scaling and resolutions, but for some reason Windows chooses the wrong ones. I opened all the .cur files in GIMP and removed all layers but the smallest cursor for all the 21 cursors, saved them in a folder and manually selected each one in the Windows cursor menu. Maybe like 15min of work, hope this helps.

can you share the folder?

Here you go MacOS Cursors edited.zip

Thanks a lot. This is a little blurry though on my machine.

Same specs. 1920x1080p monitor, 100% scaling on Windows.

AnirudhMemani avatar Jun 14 '25 14:06 AnirudhMemani