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		zokier on March 15, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Improving cursor rendering on Wayland > A max 96x96 Bibata cursor, a single cursor, is about 2MB. Umm this does not pass smell test.. 96x96x4=36864 bytes of raw pixel data. How does that become 2MB?!

aquova on March 15, 2024 | [–]

I have that exact icon theme installed, so I went and checked, and you're right. Most of the cursors look to be in the 160 KiB range (which includes all the sizes together), with only the ones that include animations getting into the MiBs

dist-epoch on March 15, 2024 | [–]

I'm pretty sure that by "single cursor" they mean "cursor pack". Yeah...

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