So, one of the things I’ve wanted to have when doing presentations in person or online is for the mouse pointer of my GNOME desktop to be large enough that it is obvious. My current system running Fedora Linux 41 which comes with GNOME 47 does not have a GUI button to change the size of the mouse pointer.

Well, here’s the trivial way to do that in the terminal and all’s well.

First, know what the size of the current mouse pointer is via:

% gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-size

That will return the current size, which on my system is 24.

Then, you can run the following:

% gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-size 80

The line above sets the size to 80.

Go ahead and experiment with different sizes to suit your needs. For me, 80 works just fine. And once my presentation/conf call is over, I reset it to 24.