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Daily Challenge: How big can you get your KDE/Wiggle mouse cursor? (feddit.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 3 months ago

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

[+] [email protected] 74 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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?!

[–] [email protected] 86 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months 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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

As the other commenter said, when I first encountered it I whaybI though was that they put the Mac wiggle.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

A bug with smooth af transition?

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I AM NOT ALONE

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

There's dozens of us!

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago (1 children)

i got it to cover the whole screen once.

It just keeps growing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months 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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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago

Hold sys/win+ + key

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

I’m sure she was super impressed.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oh wow that's neat! Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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/

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Edit: trying to get the image to show on Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Wtf, why do we have the same wallpaper?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Kirk steps through

What have I done

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I keep forgetting to turn that shit off lol

[–] babybus 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yes, Wayland only.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

i bet you're wiggling right now dude don't act like you're above it 😎

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Now you have a new custom wallpaper :)

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