Howto: prevent mouse cursor size from changing (MX-17/18)

[JayM]

Problem: Your mouse cursor reverts to its original size after you reboot or log out and in. The cursor size setting in Settings/Mouse and Touchpad/Theme tab doesn't seem to "stick".
Solution: Edit the file ~/.gtkrc-2.0 (or create it if it doesn't already exist) and add

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gtk-cursor-theme-name=YourCursorTheme
gtk-cursor-theme-size=40

replacing "YourCursorTheme" with the actual name of your mouse cursor's theme, i.e. DMZ-Black, and changing size 40 to whatever size you want.

Note that this only works for MX-18.3 and earlier as MX-19 will use GTK3, not GTK2. MX-19 doesn't have this issue.

(I found this solution for someone who was having this issue and now I find myself having it as well, every time I have to install MX, so I'm putting it here so I don't have to keep searching through my own posts to find it again.)

(Multiple edits to correct typos.)