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Daily Challenge: How big can you get your KDE/Wiggle mouse cursor? (feddit.uk)
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[-] RustyNova@lemmy.world 88 points 1 month ago

I love this game. On multi screen it gets so big

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 73 points 1 month ago

lmao When they implemented it I first thought this was one of those obscure KDE bugs.

[-] ahornsirup@feddit.org 17 points 1 month ago

Yeah. It's one of those things where I'm sure it's genuinely useful to some people but why on Earth is it on by default?!

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 84 points 1 month ago

Because shaking your cursor to spot it is kind of universal?

[-] ahornsirup@feddit.org 12 points 1 month ago

Fair. It still should be communicated better though, because it really does feel like a bug when you first encounter it.

[-] Anivia@feddit.org 34 points 1 month ago

MacOS had that feature for a long time, it's pretty intuitive. I've never heard of someone thinking it's a bug despite MacOS being very mainstream nowadays

[-] ahornsirup@feddit.org 13 points 1 month ago

We clearly live in different bubbles because this is the first time I've seen someone refer to MacOS as "very mainstream". iOS, sure, but I haven't seen many Macs out in the wild. It's certainly not common to the point where people would expect MacOS behaviour as the default.

[-] Anivia@feddit.org 14 points 1 month ago

MacOS has 25% market share for desktop operating systems in the United States. That counts as mainstream to me

[-] ahornsirup@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago

Around 15% here in Germany. That's more than I expected, but it isn't mainstream. At least not in the sense that people will expect MacOS behaviour by default on their computers, or even to the point where you can expect familiarity with MacOS from most users.

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[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 17 points 1 month ago

It's a thing in macOS, however it doesn't infinitely grow lmao

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Re: on by default

IMHO, the problem isn’t that it’s on by default, it’s the fine tuning of the feature. The velocity and pattern needed to trigger it + the lack of a reasonable max scale.

MacOS has had this on by default for a decade, but it feels more intentional when it appears. Meanwhile, I litterally still see KDE threads from people trying to troubleshoot “bugs” about their cursor size.

The KDE cursor needs about 15 min of a motion designer sitting next to the engineer that coded this.

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

A bug with smooth af transition?

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[-] Hemi03@lemmy.blahaj.zone 67 points 1 month ago

I AM NOT ALONE

[-] fossphi@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

There's dozens of us!

[-] Cris16228@lemmy.today 47 points 1 month ago

I'm a normal human then! I thought I was the only one doing it, I'm glad to know I was wrong

[-] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 1 month ago

i got it to cover the whole screen once.

It just keeps growing

[-] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Ha! I got it to cover my two screens. After that i was pretty beat tho.

[-] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 weeks ago

challenge icsiepted! I just need to buy a 3rd monitor

[-] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 1 month ago

I discovered this by accident, and I'm happy to know others are doing it too.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 36 points 1 month ago

Sadly, as soon you hit printscreen (which opens spectacle) the mouse cursor unceremoniously returns to its original size. No shrinking, just plop.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago

I was going to suggest setting a delay in Spectacle, but seems like the enlarged mouse cursor does not show up in screenshots, even if you set "Include mouse pointer"...

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[-] lunachocken@lemm.ee 27 points 1 month ago

Hold sys/win+ + key

...big through zoom. Now keep going, you'll enter a different universe.

[-] fern@lemmy.autism.place 22 points 1 month ago

Got mine 2 4k monitors tall when I showed my wife.

[-] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

We're still talking about the mouse cursor, right?

[-] 8Bitz0@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 month ago

I’m sure she was super impressed.

[-] JetpackJackson@feddit.org 15 points 1 month ago

I don't use KDE, could someone explain? This looks fun

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 43 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

When you wiggle the mouse on KDE, the cursor gets bigger so you can find it on big or multiple monitors.

[-] JetpackJackson@feddit.org 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Oh wow that's neat! Thank you!

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 3 points 1 month ago

There is no upper limit so it keeps growing untill you stop shaking.

[-] Cris16228@lemmy.today 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~~They added this thing to find your mouse, by moving it the cursor gets bigger and bigger~~

Shake Cursor makes the cursor grow when you "shake" it. This helps you locate that tiny little arrow on your large, cluttered screens when you lose it among all those windows.

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.1.0/

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Both KDE and Mac OS do this. Out of curiosity, which one did it first?

[-] Spectrism@feddit.org 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Plasma's shake cursor plugin is a pretty recent addition, according to KDE's GitLab it originally got merged just 10 months ago. Enabled by default since 6.1 (June 2024), with high-resolution cursor coming shortly after that iirc. So it's basically the same as on macOS now, but only since a few months. I don't know exactly when macOS introduced it, I've read somewhere it was with El Capitan, so that would be 9 years ago. Either way, macOS definitely had it first.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks.

[-] ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

If I had to guess for Mac I’d say 5 years max. No idea about KDE

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Been in Mac OS since El Capitan (10.11.0) in 2015

[-] ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 weeks ago

This blows my mind, I remember when they announced the feature and it does not seem like nearly 10 years ago. Guess I’m older than I think!

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago

Is that what that is?! It just randomly started happening and I thought an update screwed up my compositor.

So with that question answered, how the hell do I turn it off, because it's annoying as hell.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

System Settings -> Input&Output -> Accessibility -> Shake Cursor

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[-] gregor@gregtech.eu 12 points 1 month ago

And here I am, thinking I was the only one doing this.

[-] blued_gear@fedia.io 11 points 1 month ago

image

Edit: trying to get the image to show on Lemmy

[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 8 points 4 weeks ago

[-] fossphi@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Wtf, why do we have the same wallpaper?

[-] Wooki@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Kirk steps through

What have I done

[-] EuCaue@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Now you have a new custom wallpaper :)

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I keep forgetting to turn that shit off lol

[-] babybus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

And here I can't find how to enable it.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

You need to be on Plasma 6.1+.

Then it's under System Settings → Accessibility → Shake Cursor, although I think it gets enabled by default.

[-] babybus@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

6.1.5, I don't have it. This post says that the feature is only available for wayland sessions, so that explains it.

[-] SpinItBetter@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yes, Wayland only.

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