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The cursor is very small when installed via snap

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me45
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The cursor (mouse pointer) is very small when I install Firefox as a snap. The deb works fine. I'm assuming this has something to do with snap theming, but is there any workaround?

The cursor (mouse pointer) is very small when I install Firefox as a snap. The deb works fine. I'm assuming this has something to do with snap theming, but is there any workaround?

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cor-el
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I think that the size of the mouse pointer would be taken from the operating system (Linux in your case).

Does it has effect if you modify layout.css.devPixelsPerPx on the about:config page?

You can set layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to 1.0 (default is -1) on the about:config page. Adjust its value in 0.1 or 0.05 steps (1.1 or 0.9) until icons or text looks right. Modifying layout.css.devPixelsPerPx affects user interface and web pages (global zoom).

me45
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Yes normally the mouse pointer would be taken from the OS, but for some reason it's not respected when Firefox is installed as a snap. The deb works fine. I know there are theming issues with snaps, so I'm assuming this is related to that.

I tried changing the devPixelsPerPx but it doesn't seem to have an affect. The text and icons are the correct size. It's just the mouse pointer that is small.