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I did a do-release-upgrade in my WSL2 setup today to go to Ubuntu 24.04 and now my mouse cursor when I hover over graphical Linux applications is huge. It's probably 4 times as tall and 4 times as wide as it should be.

>wsl -l
Windows Subsystem for Linux Distributions:
Ubuntu-24.04 (Default)

>wsl --version
WSL version: 2.2.4.0
Kernel version: 5.15.153.1-2
WSLg version: 1.0.61
MSRDC version: 1.2.5326
Direct3D version: 1.611.1-81528511
DXCore version: 10.0.26091.1-240325-1447.ge-release
Windows version: 10.0.22621.3880

I don't really understand which piece of software is responsible for drawing these cursors, so I'm not sure which setting I should tweak. Interestingly as I move my mouse from the Windows desktop to the window decoration (containing minimize, maximize and close buttons), the cursor changes from the standard windows white with black outline to a more rounded grey cursor with a black outline and then when I get to the body of the window it changes into the huge cursor which is black with a white outline.

I have also opened a github issue against the microsoft/WSL repository

user12701
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Same issue after updating to 24.04. Adding gtk-cursor-theme-size=24 to these files helped me:

~/.gtkrc-2.0
~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
~/.config/gtk-4.0/settings.ini

Both github-desktop and gedit, I was checking with, use gtk-3.0 - so might be enough to modify only ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini.

RUDEBOY BADMAN
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