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Asked: 2018-05-09 18:29:52 +0800 CST

Mouse cursor does not honor night light

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I just installed 18.04.

Night Light is active, but the mouse cursor is not "red-shifting". I am using the default 'DMZ-Black' cursor theme.

But the pointer outline is a glaring bright white color, the same as when Night Light is turned off.

Is there a way to get the mouse cursor to honor the Gnome Night Light setting? (I do not want to install a different cursor theme).

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1 Answers

  1. After spending 4+ hours I found the only solution:

    • For now, it's not possible to change cursor color. Use custom cursors for night mode.

    I didn't find good looking night cursors so tried to create myself. I used https://github.com/charakterziffer/cursor-toolbox and spent about 1h to change colors in svgs/template.svg to make ok looking cursors for day/night mode.

    My example commit: https://github.com/fedotxxl/cursor-toolbox/commit/1ef4faa717fefb2d144871ad0fd4a060c6bf3877

    Replace style="fill:#000;fill-opacity:1;stroke:#fff;stroke-opacity:1" with your custom color, compile and try.

    Hope it will help someone

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