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    [–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 91 points 2 months ago

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

    [–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 73 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

    [–] ahornsirup@feddit.org 17 points 2 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?!

    [–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 86 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

    [–] ahornsirup@feddit.org 13 points 2 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.

    [–] Anivia@feddit.org 35 points 2 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

    [–] ahornsirup@feddit.org 13 points 2 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.

    [–] Anivia@feddit.org 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] ahornsirup@feddit.org 7 points 2 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.

    [–] Pandasdontfly@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago

    Personally I'm going to have to agree with them as well I installed Kde recently and this exact feature I thought was a bug. When digging around on Google for about 15 minutes before realizing it was a feature I had to turn off.

    [–] fushuan@lemm.ee 2 points 2 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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    [–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 19 points 2 months ago

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

    [–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 3 points 2 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.

    [–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

    A bug with smooth af transition?

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    [–] Hemi03@lemmy.blahaj.zone 68 points 2 months ago (1 children)
    [–] fossphi@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

    There's dozens of us!

    [–] Cris16228@lemmy.today 47 points 2 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

    [–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    i got it to cover the whole screen once.

    It just keeps growing

    [–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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    [–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 2 months ago

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

    [–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 36 points 2 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.

    [–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 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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    [–] lunachocken@lemm.ee 27 points 2 months ago

    Hold sys/win+ + key

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

    [–] fern@lemmy.autism.place 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

    [–] 8Bitz0@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 2 months ago

    I’m sure she was super impressed.

    [–] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

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

    [–] JetpackJackson@feddit.org 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

    [–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 44 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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.

    [–] JetpackJackson@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Oh wow that's neat! Thank you!

    [–] Sabata11792@ani.social 3 points 2 months ago

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

    [–] Cris16228@lemmy.today 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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/

    [–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

    [–] Spectrism@feddit.org 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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.

    [–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago
    [–] ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 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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    [–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 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.

    [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

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

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    [–] gregor@gregtech.eu 12 points 2 months ago

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

    [–] blued_gear@fedia.io 11 points 2 months ago

    image

    Edit: trying to get the image to show on Lemmy

    [–] Mwa@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago
    [–] fossphi@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

    Wtf, why do we have the same wallpaper?

    [–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I keep forgetting to turn that shit off lol

    [–] babybus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 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@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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.

    [–] SpinItBetter@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

    Yes, Wayland only.

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    [–] Wooki@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

    Kirk steps through

    What have I done

    [–] EuCaue@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

    Now you have a new custom wallpaper :)

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