Daily Challenge: How big can you get your KDE/Wiggle mouse cursor?
Daily Challenge: How big can you get your KDE/Wiggle mouse cursor?
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lmao When they implemented it I first thought this was one of those obscure KDE bugs.
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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?!
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Because shaking your cursor to spot it is kind of universal?
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It's a thing in macOS, however it doesn't infinitely grow lmao
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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.
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A bug with smooth af transition?
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I thought I'm high
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I AM NOT ALONE
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There's dozens of us!
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i got it to cover the whole screen once.
It just keeps growing
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Ha! I got it to cover my two screens. After that i was pretty beat tho.
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challenge icsiepted! I just need to buy a 3rd monitor
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Sadly, as soon you hit printscreen (which opens spectacle) the mouse cursor unceremoniously returns to its original size. No shrinking, just plop.
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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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Interesting. Ubuntu/PopOS screenshot tool freezes the screen upon hitting the button. Unfortunately it doesn't have the cursor feature
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Hold sys/win+ + key
...big through zoom. Now keep going, you'll enter a different universe.
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Got mine 2 4k monitors tall when I showed my wife.
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I’m sure she was super impressed.
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We're still talking about the mouse cursor, right?
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Both KDE and Mac OS do this. Out of curiosity, which one did it first?
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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.
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Thanks.
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I don't use KDE, could someone explain? This looks fun
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When you wiggle the mouse on KDE, the cursor gets bigger so you can find it on big or multiple monitors.
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Oh wow that's neat! Thank you!
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There is no upper limit so it keeps growing untill you stop shaking.
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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.
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System Settings -> Input&Output -> Accessibility -> Shake Cursor
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Edit: trying to get the image to show on Lemmy
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Wtf, why do we have the same wallpaper?
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Kirk steps through
What have I done
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Now you have a new custom wallpaper :)
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god i wish people would stop calling it just "wiggle"
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Think of the gnome people!
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I love this game. On multi screen it gets so big