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all, I'm seeing this huge cursor in all my chrome windows this morning: enter image description here

For context, tried to install Chromium (via snap, unlike Chrome, which is using .deb) to test and I see the cursor size there is correct: enter image description here

Again, for context, all default GTK theme here, Ubuntu 22.04 (still running x11, if I am to trust echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE), and a scaling factor of 125% on the two 4K screens I have. Another key detail: cursor is still huge on the one old 1024p screen I have scaled at 100%. I haven't changed anything theme-wise that I believe could trigger this -- or for the past 6 months or so.

How do I restore the cursor size in Chrome browser to what it was yesterday / what it is in all other apps?

I've seen various posts from around 3-8 years ago when people seem to have experienced similar problems: https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=4901 https://www.reddit.com/r/Crostini/comments/ute16y/anyone_knows_how_to_fix_the_giant_cursor_on_some/ Mouse cursor size is tiny in Chromium (Ubuntu 18.04)

None of the solutions seemed to help (sans maybe adding imperfectly-working browser extensions -- tried -- or changing cursor themes system-wide -- haven't tried, all of which I'd rather avoid here).

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[EDIT 05/05/25] Issue appears to be fixed with google-chrome-stable deb package 136.0.7103.59 release.

If you have previously put the package on hold, you can clear the hold and update/upgrade like so:

sudo apt-mark unhold google-chrome-stable
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

[ORIGINAL ANSWER]

It looks like there's a bug in the new version of the google-chrome-stable apt package (135.0.7049.52-1). Downgrading to 134.0.6998.88-1 is a viable work-around, until (hopefully) that issue is solved.

Commnads for the work-around:

wget https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/google-chrome-stable_134.0.6998.88-1_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_134.0.6998.88-1_amd64.deb

And, to prevent auto-upgrade:

sudo apt-mark hold google-chrome-stable

Older Chrome version with correct cursor size

Greg Kramida
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