Any fellow Linux users on here?

[UFO]

Ok. I got OneDrive and Steam working.

Now I try to use Epic Games with Heroic Games Launcher, which seems to work fine except that the mouse cursor is ridiculously small.

I don't think it is a game related issue, as it is that size also for the Wine Configuration window, which I open from the game's Wine-tab by clicking Winecfg-button. I can scale "screen resolution" from Graphics-tab (in Wine Configuration) to get a text and the configuration window to a readable size, but this doesn't seem to change the mouse cursor size.

I found out that I could use Gamescope-option with "enables upscaling" and "enable force grab cursor" ticked on, with additional option "--cursor-scale-height", but then the frame rate drops and the mouse turns to sluggish and the game don't always even react to mouse clicks.

Any tips?

 

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Go into System Settings in your Programs menu and check the mouse settings in there. You can change the size or even the style of your mouse along with a whole host of other settings.

 

[UFO]

Mouse cursor is fine in Linux, it is Wine that creates too small Windows-style cursor for Windows-programs run with the Wine.

I have tried few tricks that ChatGPT suggested from environment variables to Wine's Windows-registry entries but they didn't work. I am not entirely sure if I even used correct registry keys.

The games that override Windows cursor with their own seem to work. I could notice same problem in Steam-games that does not use a cursor graphics of their own.

I'll think I go and read the Wine documentation...

 

[Outdated]

I haven't witnessed the problem myself but I don't use Steam or any other platform of that type because I never play online. So I've just got the Gog versions of games installed directly in wine, and so far all of those have their own cursors.

 

[Judge]

Mouse cursor is fine in Linux, it is Wine that creates too small Windows-style cursor for Windows-programs run with the Wine.

I have tried few tricks that ChatGPT suggested from environment variables to Wine's Windows-registry entries but they didn't work. I am not entirely sure if I even used correct registry keys.

The games that override Windows cursor with their own seem to work. I could notice same problem in Steam-games that does not use a cursor graphics of their own.

I'll think I go and read the Wine documentation...

You might use the terminal to go into winecfg and adjust the resolution like so:

To fix the small cursor issue in Wine, try adjusting the cursor size by accessing the "graphics" tab and changing the screen resolution to 120 DPI.

 

[UFO]

Already tried the "screen resolution".

But it seems that the Heroic Games Launcher uses some customized Wine-GE. I tried to run the game with Wine of my own installation (using command line WINEPREFIX=~/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/xxxx wine xxxx.exe) and suddenly mouse cursor was the right size

I am just going to spend some time researching if I can force Heroic Games Launcher to use my Wine instead of its own. If that fails, I just create a start script of my own to run every game I install from Epic Games Store.

 

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But it seems that the Heroic Games Launcher uses....

You seem to be making sense of it very well for a first time user. Congratulations on a job well done.

 

[UFO]

Problem solved: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=443925

It wasn't Wine (or Proton, which uses Wine and which should be used as Heroic Games Launcher has deprecated use of Wine-GE). It was Flatpak, that didn't inherit themes correctly. Quote from the linked page:

To get the cursor theme to match I did this:

1. create a directory named default inside $HOME/.local/share/icons/; you can do this with the file manager or you can run mkdir -p $HOME/.local/share/icons/default in the terminal
2. create a text file named index.theme inside the $HOME/.local/share/icons/default directory
3. and write inside the file the following lines:
   Code:
   [icon theme]<br>Inherits=Bibata-Modern-Classic
   (of course if you are using another theme just write the name of that theme instead of Bibata-Modern-Classic)

I noticed, that standard-Wine used same cursor graphics as Linux did, so I suspected that perhaps it was an access rights problem (Wine, launched from Heroic, couldn't load resources from the Linux-system for some reason). However, using Flatseal to give an access to cursor icons folders (for Flatpak-installed programs) didn't help. Then I found above mentioned webpage...

You seem to be making sense of it very well for a first time user. Congratulations on a job well done.

Thank you. Now my eyes hurt, and I feel exhausted of all this googling and reading.

 

[tkcartoonist]

Thank you. Now my eyes hurt, and I feel exhausted of all this googling and reading.

Welcome to the world of Linux (and BSD, I might add).

 

[Judge]

Thank you. Now my eyes hurt, and I feel exhausted of all this googling and reading.

"Problem solved".

In the end, that's all that really matters when it comes to Linux. Well done.

 

[UFO]

Aaand after that Epic Game Train Valley 2 began hanging. But that I solved by unchecking "Enable Fsync". According to ChatGPT, Unity-engine has this quirk. Now I have managed to run the game several hours without glitches. Yay!

Next, I'm going to test Steam by playing Cities Skylines, but before that The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit run just fine.

I have to admit: thirty years ago fiddling with command line and assigning drivers to memory areas was fun, but now it is... not fun but somehow intriguing.

If I don't encounter any problems during my summer's gaming streak, I suppose I can abandon bloatware-Windows for good. My last straw was that I began to be fed with commercial notifications, and found after last updates several programs that I don't remember been installing (I am retired, I don't need LinkedIn).

 

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If I don't encounter any problems during my summer's gaming streak, I suppose I can abandon bloatware-Windows for good. My last straw was that I began to be fed with commercial notifications, and found after last updates several programs that I don't remember been installing (I am retired, I don't need LinkedIn).

Linux does take a little bit of getting used to and you're bound to come across a few niggly little issues here and there but I think overall you'll be happy with your new system.

And when it comes to issues with particular games the Linux community in the Steam Forums is also a valuable resource.

 

[Judge]

If I don't encounter any problems during my summer's gaming streak, I suppose I can abandon bloatware-Windows for good. My last straw was that I began to be fed with commercial notifications, and found after last updates several programs that I don't remember been installing (I am retired, I don't need LinkedIn).

For what it's worth, I think you easily passed the most critical test one can take in transitioning from Windows to Linux. You persevered in finding an answer to your Linux-related problem.

The bad news? While problems may not arise from general usage of a Linux distro, odds are that at some point a user must seek an answer from the Internet. In fact it's inevitable.

The good news? You will find the answer you are looking for, but it may take a few sources to ultimately get the results you are looking for.

If one is inquisitive about such things, it's more than likely to help them to become proficient with Linux faster than they may realize.