Yeah, and this only gets worse with bigger monitors. Want to use that 43" TV as Monitor #3? Wigglin' isn't going to help.
Real users give up and start using keyboard shortcuts to move crap around until they find it again.
Or just get a wireless gaming mouse with adjustable DPI, crank it up to 11 billion, and try to catch it doing near lightspeed as it goes through all four monitors at once. The only drawback is that, according to physics, it will likely have experienced time dilation, which means your mouse cursor has aged significantly in the short time it was in flight.
74 0 ReplyOn macOS if you wiggle the mouse quickly the cursor gets bigger.
11 0 ReplyWindows lets you optionally use CTrL to highlight the cursor for a moment
5 0 ReplyOh you mean the mini game has a practical purpose too?
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5 0 ReplyYES, I'm using one of the ones they made right now.
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One of us needs a review on relativistic physics (but it's probably me). Shouldn't the cursor experience less time than you?
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In Windows you can add a pulse effect to the mouse that's triggered by pressing Control. It's under the visibility settings.
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-add-a-highlighter-to-your-mouse-pointer-in-windows-10/
50 0 ReplyFor Apple people, there’s a setting in Mac OS to make the cursor giant if you shake it.
19 0 ReplyFor Linux people, it depends on your distro/DE/WM
11 0 ReplyActually I'm pretty sure that's enabled by default now
5 0 ReplyYep. It’s enabled by default, actually
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Or even easier: right click
15 0 ReplyI have accidentally deleted my operating system.
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KDE can do that as well
5 0 ReplyAnd make it bright yellow while you're messing with the settings.
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My coworkers make fun of me when I share my zoom screen and my cursor is big and bright green. I never lose my mouse cursor though.
30 0 ReplyI enabled the feature that shows you where the cursor is with a big circle when you press Ctrl. Works like a charm.
16 0 ReplyPowertoys!
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This was driving me crazy so I made the cursor big and inverted colors, no problems finding it now.
12 0 ReplyAt the beginning I also inverted it, but I have changed it to red, it also looks very good and also good if you want to indicate something in a Screenshot
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Big cursor gang
10 0 ReplyHow much time are you people losing to this? It takes me less than a second to find my cursor again.
4 0 ReplyI have 3 high res monitors and the middle is an ultra wide, so there's quite a bit of area to scan for what is normally a tiny cursor.
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I do this as well. Really helps when you share your screen and want to show where your cursor is.
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The Ctrl key shows where the cursor is, easy.
28 0 ReplyIf you enable it in mouse settings
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TIL
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I just wiggle my mouse like an idiot until the cursor hits my vision, because you know...i'm in control of the input device.
17 0 ReplyAlso helps if you make it a bright green or yellow to make it stand out.
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And now you know why it’s called a curser.
14 0 ReplyKeyboard Focused Tiling Window Manager Users: 🤷
13 0 ReplyYeah, this is me. With
unclutter
installed to hide the cursor anyway. My cursor just follows the middle of whatever window I have focused at the time in i3wm1 0 Reply
I use powertoys and have the mouse highlighting tool enable when I shake the cursor back and forth.
Before this tool I also moved it around so I could see it, now it becomes highlighted when I do.
12 0 ReplySaving this to come back to it. Seems very handy
1 0 ReplyPowerToys is awesome
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Didn't know about this Powertoys feature, neat - think Windows actually has a built-in option you can toggle where if you hold down shift (or possibly ctrl? Haven't had cause to use it for ages) it'll highlight the cursor with a bright circle.
1 0 ReplyIsn't that a Windows 11 thing?
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12 0 ReplyApple’s shake to find is plenty effective.
2 0 ReplyMaybe, but it's not serious enough.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Xeyes.png
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Too bad this becomes less effective as time goes on, this wont affect wyaland windows, only xwayland/X
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my pc has a glitch right now where the cursor ACTUALLY goes invisible until I move it to the other monitor and back...
11 0 ReplyI switched to a custom black cursor a few years ago (Posy's cursor mono block if anyone's curious) and it's so much easier to find. I also added the ping when I hit control, but that's less useful and a bit distracting in games.
10 0 ReplyYou can natively change the color and size of your courser in windows 10 and 11. No need for thirdparty tools.
Did that. Never looked back. I never lost my courser on a white background again.
Size: 2 or 3
Color: orange.
Impossible to miss.
5 0 ReplySure, but the downside there is you've got a big orange cursor.
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I use the windows built in large inverted color cursor. Easier to find and I like how it reacts to whatever color it's on currently
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A coworker showed me how to add the comet tail.
9 0 ReplyIt's hiding in the white space of documents! It's invisible!
9 0 ReplyAnd it's waiting to strike.
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It's on the TV that you use as a third monitor that is usually turned off
8 0 ReplyI've always appreciated the Mac OS feature that makes the cursor really huge if you wiggle it back and forth for this very reason...
8 0 ReplyMicrosoft's Powertoys includes a feature where if you press Ctrl repeatedly your cursor becomes highlighted. Very handy!
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me everytime in bloonstg6 after round 40 or so
7 0 ReplyBloons TD6 aka The Mysterious Case of the Missing Cursor
3 0 ReplyWhen are they gonna allow us to change the cursor to glow or something, it would be soo helpful, especially with fleets of airplanes in the sky
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There's always xeyes of course.
6 0 ReplyAll 3 monitors slightly off brightness, exactly like my monitors regardless of how many times I fiddle with them!
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jus wiggle that shit
4 0 Replyngl, best feature in macos
7 0 ReplyYes! I remember when they first introduced it and I had to make sure I wasn't hallucinating that the cursor was blowing up.
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that's why I use dual monitor tools. I click the home key ony keyboard and the cursor is right in the middle of my main monitor
2 0 ReplyI just use the built in windows feature that lets me hit ctrl and it puts a big shrinking circle on my cursor for a couple seconds.
4 0 ReplyI use that AND the mouse trails thing. No end of people laughing at me about the mouse trails but hey, I rarely lose sight of my cursor.
2 0 ReplyI hate this because whenever I’m copying and pasting shit, I get stupid circles on my screen
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Does nobody just increase their cursor size…? 😂
1 0 ReplyThere is a setting on Windows that lets you press a button (Ctrl by default) that will circle your mouse and get closer to door where your mouse is.
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