Also, are malware-free cursor applications still a thing? Or does it make me an old man to want to do it in 2023?
Who uses a mouse? I function all applications with just a keyboard, my custom arch based distribution doesn’t even support mice because I removed all drivers from the kernel. /s
You use a keyboard? Cringe. I just pull up a virtual keyboard on screen and click every button that I need to type.
It's 2023, gramps.
Ahhh, the steam deck experience, I relate.
You mean double touchpad typing superiority?
Uh, excuse me, but the steam controller was actually the first Valve hardware to do this.
Oh, look at Ms Fancy over here. I use a morse code telegraph to make all my inputs. Ones and zeros, that's all a computer needs. Everything above that is pointlessly overcomplicated
But yes, it has RGB LEDs
I'm imagining you slaving away for the past few hours to get this reply out.
signature look of superiority
Do you use a keyboard? All the cool kids use punch cards
neck beard intensifies
Who uses a keyboard all I need is a saxaphone
You feel a tingle in the back of your mind. You want to change your mouse cursor. Authority.
Without any prompting, I read it in the narrators voice. Praise the Absolute.
Anything for a True Soul! Changing it now, boss.
Change the OS cursor, i don't know about mac but you can do that on windows and linux
Am I misremembering, but did Baldur's Gate, Warcraft 2, or something ship with a cursor package for windows?
I didn't have Internet back then, but I recall finding out that you could change the cursor to a gauntlet from one of those games, much to the chagrin of my parents.
It is possible, some games like to have some extras like wallpapers, custom icons, etc, specially back them. I would love to see more of that, the last time i've seem was with yakuza kiwami with some avatars, wallpapers and animated arts to use on steam.
I think I might actually do this
On windows it's Settings > Themes, then click the "Mouse pointers" item. That should bring up the Pointers tab of the Mouse Properties window. Then it's just a matter of getting .ani or .cur versions of the pointers you want.
You would've loved black and white 2 then. The basic concept of the game was you are a god and you can choose to be evil or benevolent. Like if roller-coaster tycoon and Age of empire had a baby. The pointer was a hand that moved depending on what you were doing in your world. AND it changed the more evil or good you were.
Of all the games I wish got a proper remake, it's B&W and Dungeon Keeper.
This is going a long way back but I'm pretty sure you could use it to just slap the shit out of your giant monster guy. That might be a different "play as god" game though...
You're thinking of the right game. You had a pet that was pretty much a massive bipedal animal monster that you could train. Depending on what you do with them, when you reward them with food and petting and when you punish them by slapping them, they'd change their behaviour. You could teach them to either farm food off of fields or eat villagers when they were hungry, whatever you wanted. It was a really fun feature, at least for six year old me.
You can find some on deviant art, that's where I got mine. https://www.deviantart.com/tag/cursors
https://www.deviantart.com/topic/customization
I think this is the one I settled on? It just looks better than default windows lol https://www.deviantart.com/spysees/art/Mac-Os-X-El-Capitan-Cursor-Pack-For-Win-By-SeeS-573756719
This seems legit? I haven't tried it but the firefox extension for it has a lot of users https://custom-cursor.com/products/custom-cursor-for-windows
https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/custom-cursor/XPFF8Q4ZP7Q321
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/the-custom-cursor/
Whoa, I didn't know deviant art also had useful stuff like this on it. Thanks!
i'm not very sure about Windows aside from DeviantArt, RealWorld and similar galleries, but for KDE you can get a catalogue built into the cursor settings
No problems in Windows, you can download and use a ton of cursors from Deviantart and a lot of other sitees, there are even some Cursor Manager, with which you can change the cursor set with one clic, also some editors to make your own sets. The cursor image format is the same for Linux and Windows.
It's next when you click and the printer finger moves. Serotonin please
Don’t install cursor applications, just add cursor packs for your respective operating system.
On Linux you can install whatever cursor pack you want and then select it… all in the terminal!
And also out of the terminal if you'd prefer graphical settings on desktops like Plasma and XFCE, for example.
theres malware on cursor applications? isnt it possible to just change the cursor with the .cur files if youre on windows?
Depends on the platform i guess? Windows cursors vs. Linux cursors.
It takes a lot of willpower for me not to make my ubuntu desktop look like a virus riddled win7/xp desktop
You know a game is good when it does this.
Ooh, the top left ones are from Ultima Online. Haven't seen those cursors in a long while.
Switch to Linux and you can change your mouse cursor to always be a gauntlet.
I might not switch on my current daily driver, but I'm seriously thinking of converting an extra PC I have lying around and seeing what all the fuss (foss) is about.
It's beautiful
I have been chosen by the big metal hand in the sky!
Hand of a lil guy :)
Brings me back to the MapleStory days. That little white glove brings back such happy memories.