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  • mouse pointer and screen brightness horrible in sddm logon

    From William Unruh@2:250/1 to All on Sat Nov 12 15:59:50 2022
    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.


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  • From Doug Laidlaw@2:250/1 to All on Sun Nov 13 09:57:47 2022
    On 13/11/22 02:59, William Unruh wrote:
    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.

    SDDM is known to be buggy. I had a different problem, and updating SDDM
    fixed it. My installed version is sddm-0.19.0-15.1.mga8.

    HTH,

    Doug.

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  • From Doug Laidlaw@2:250/1 to All on Sun Nov 13 10:00:45 2022
    On 13/11/22 20:57, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
    SDDM is known to be buggy.  I had a different problem, and updating SDDM fixed it.  My installed version is sddm-0.19.0-15.1.mga8.

    BTW, if this doesn't work, try deleting old config files in your home directory.

    HTH,

    Doug.


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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Sun Nov 13 14:56:04 2022
    On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 05:00:45 -0500, Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> wrote:

    On 13/11/22 20:57, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
    SDDM is known to be buggy. I had a different problem, and updating SDDM
    fixed it. My installed version is sddm-0.19.0-15.1.mga8.

    BTW, if this doesn't work, try deleting old config files in your home directory.

    The question was also asked in a bug report https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31113

    The answer by Sturmvogel was ...
    Edit your /etc/environment and add
    XCURSOR_SIZE=64

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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  • From William Unruh@2:250/1 to All on Mon Nov 14 11:30:52 2022
    On 2022-11-13, Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> wrote:
    On 13/11/22 02:59, William Unruh wrote:
    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.

    SDDM is known to be buggy. I had a different problem, and updating SDDM fixed it. My installed version is sddm-0.19.0-15.1.mga8.

    That is also my version.

    HTH,

    Doug.

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