Except that I usually AM moving it....just sometimes ADHD brain goes:
OMFG! WHAT'S THAT OVER THERE!
And then I have no idea where the cursor is even when I'm moving it. I had no idea about the cursor enlargement effect until one day my mouse ran out of battery and wasn't waking up fast enough, so I was clicking and moving it back and forth really fast...got a bit of a fright when it suddenly got several times larger.
I’d honestly would expect to have a mouse locator. I think on Windows that was the alt key or something like that.
My setup doesn’t have anything like that, but I also see roughly where the mouse is since my tilingmanager gives focus to the window the cursor is over
Edit:
It stopped working because I switched back to X11, it only works in Wayland, but I had to switch back, I think it was because some hot keys don't work and can't be configured under Wayland. Or at least couldn't when I configured my system about a year ago.
If Gnome ran a restaurant, the waiter chooses the meal for you, and tut & shake their head if you try to deviate from it.
If KDE ran a restaurant, if you shake the menu it'll grow exponentially in size until it fills the restaurant.
Yes, and 99.9% of the meals you eat in your life will not be there. Because it is either prohibitively expensive and elitist gourmet BS. Or it is trivially easy to offer some choice when it is not elitist gourmet BS.
Even at a more mundane restaurant, only having one meal for each course to worry about drastically simplifies life for the entire back line, plus it makes life easier for the chef or whoever does the ordering as well.
If Gnome ran a restaurant, the waiter chooses the meal for you, and tut & shake their head if you try to deviate from it.
And if you want to add salt and pepper to your meal, there's a convenient store across the street that sells salt and pepper shakers. No, the Gnome restaurant will not be providing them.
I'm a GNOME user and extensions are pretty easy to install. I use the wiggly extension for the mouse shake to grow thing, but unfortunately it has a maximum size of 256 which is plenty big enough to find it but you can't shake it forever until it grows bigger than the screen. GNOME 0 KDE 1 🥲
People hate on Gnome but I think it's actually great UI. Lots of hardcore Linux users shit on the windows UI but insist that Windows 7 UI clones are somehow peak UX. Gnome is more similar to Mac, but I find even easier to use. The super key is money on Gnome.
Yeah I tried KDE for a while, people talked about how customisable it is that you can do anything. But I never found a way to recreate that super key experience.
The massive cursor during shake is literally what sold two of my friends on Garuda getting them off Windows 😂 idk why I guess the wimsy factor is difficult to account for.
Some of the effects have become mainstream. But there is no comparison to the real Compiz feel.
For instance the original Emerald windows dresser was amazing, and zooming with the scroll wheel combined with for instance the left win key was extremely useful. The smoothness and configurability of the cube was crazy cool.
What is available today is hollow shells of what we had.
Yes I use wobbly windows in KDE, but Compiz is 100x > Plasma.
Thanks and yes I know.
But AFAIK it was mostly limited to Ubuntu Unity and XFCE for a long time, and support became shaky.
I actually looked it up just before, and it seems Mint has support for it, but looking at the emerald themes it looks nothing like it did back in the day where it was new and revolutionizing. Also I'm lazy, I don't care to fiddle so much with my computer anymore.
How? Trust me bro! Users hate features, they get all confused and stuff. That's why nobody should ever choose anything, the OS should just be shit forever. We also get paid by Microsoft and IBM coincidentally.
We also get paid by Microsoft and IBM coincidentally.
Microsoft and IBM both donate to the Linux Foundation itself. They are both platinum members who regularly give them funds for all kinds of projects. This is really idiotic gotcha attempt.
Well who needs systrays anyways? While we're at it, let's remove theming support too! Surely nobody would miss that feature?
I really miss KDE. Sadly my experience with new major versions (5, 6) tends to be that plasma is unstable for daily use for at least a year or two. I'll be back once things settle down a bit.
Sadly my problems are with buggy applications, and hdr (more of a monitor issue than plasma itself). I'm hoping these get patched as more people yell at bad wayland support and poorly implemented hdr.
Somehow, under GNOME things "just work". Or at least it doesn't take down the entire session.
Oh my gosh finally! I can enjoy the vector experience! I’ve always felt this was missing from KDE. I would show my friends all the benefits of Linux, but when I showed them by wasting approximately 1-2 minutes, you could embiggen your mouse cursor to absurd proportions, their eyes lit up unlike anything before. They wanted it the moment they knew the potential of infinite cursor sizing.
But I often made the amateur mistake of embiggening a few pixels too far and their delight would rapidly plunge into disappointment as they came to the realization that it was simply scaling up a raster render of the cursor in a lazy post-processed Easter egg.
They all leave the room in a huff, sending my attempts to reach out directly to voicemail, unanswered. But this. This will change everything. Thank you KDE. This is what we had all been waiting for.
Yeah, I'm sure the KDE Foundation spent this year's entire budget on this, and it wasn't just a fun little side project for one of the many volunteers who keep open source going.
I think it’s more “I found a thing that’s technically wrong and fixed it” and that shit pays dividends down the road when technology changes and people forget this was ever an issue. They solved it now so they don’t have to solve it later.
You have to re-render vector graphics when you zoom in. Otherwise they have the same pixels stored in memory as when they were first opened.
You are always viewing a bitmap image because you have a bitmap display and it makes sense they don't load a full size cursor into memory to get rendered.
I'd be curious as to if they've rendered a full size image to sit in memory, or re-render the vector image directly as it grows.
Given the way games work re-rendering would be trivial for any computer running KDE so I'd take that bet.
Because it uses the XCursor format, which is a quite old standard. Getting apps to switch to a newer standard that has vector graphics is already hard enough. Getting them to do so without burning your GPU is basically impossible.
Previously it was using whatever cursor the theme had loaded and just scaled it up. Now it references the full set of resources for the theme and picks the appropriate one for the size.
So they went with the most correct third option: defer to the standard set by a more authoritative source. :)
Often times when there was a big new update for GNOME, I'd try it out, decide I still don't like the concept and go back to plasma.
I don't get the appeal of that desktop. Even the tiniest changes need gnome-tweaks? Why isn't that stuff part of the base settings? But ok. You can't ungimp GNOME. The usage concept is baked into it. Fine. But why?
I mean there must be people who want this and nothing else, otherwise people wouldn't use it.
I don't really like to talk about it on here because people are very hostile towards GNOME and its users, but I used it (extensionless, tweakless) for about 4 years up until recently. Very comfy and efficient workflow in my opinion. I think a lot of people don't take the time to understand how it works, they get frustrated and want their alt-tabbing and minimizing back. Either way I don't really care. No emotional attachment to any DE, and I use neither GNOME nor Plasma right now.
Currently using niri. It's not easy to explain, but you could say it takes GNOME's concept of infinite horizontal workspaces and applies it to individual windows.
Because putting QoL improvements and having an effective workflow behind a bunch of plugins that break on the tiniest Gnome update is all part of the user experience I guess. I've given it several tries over the past 20 years or so, but each attempt eventually ended in utter disappointment.
I don't believe you. Gnome 2 was pretty much universally loved (hence the existence of Cinnamon, which is a direct descendant), and people were pissed about the tablet-oriented Gnome 3. You'd know this if you used Gnome 20 years ago.
I used gnome then, when Ubuntu would send you free CDs and GNOME was poo-flavoured. It was harder to set things up then, and I kind of see why people gave up and used some hack of the windowing kit from GIMP. Much has happened it 20 years though. KDE got worse (imho, but we have Trinity), GNOME stayed worse, and Linux became easy and mainstream.
I guess I'm one of the few people who matches gnome pretty well. I actually appreciate that the default is 90% of what I need, and don't mind if the last 10% is maintained outside of the core project. Scope creep and all that.
You don't even have a reliable way to keep track of your disk usage anymore. That was the final drop for me when they removed "Other locations" where I could see how much space was left. The Disk Usage Analyzer app is a complete mess and don't give an easy "you got 10 gigs left mate." I had to resort to the terminal to get good accurate measures. Now I have a percentage in my taskbar in Plasma.
GNOME used to be good until version 2. Then the developers went insane and all subsequent versions of GNOME feel like they've been designed by someone who has never worked in his life.
My conspiracy theory is that it is pushed so much by Red Hat because they have optimized it to be as boring and distraction free as possible to increase productivity in an enterprise context. It is useless outside of that.
Not that I don't understand this in general, I just find it harder to actually do normal computer stuff I do. No dock, very little info in the top taskbar. That's why I said an enterprise context specifically. You'll usually open an app or two and leave it at that, maybe occasionally switch desktops to go to your second of 2 apps. Anything more than that is actively a pain. And why not ALLOW changes that don't rely on plugins? That's what really gets me. Maybe the devs believe in the maximizing of space, but then just auto hide the dock by default like macOS or even just turn it off by default instead of not even including it? That's the part that gets to me. And it is sure not using that lack of features to optimize responsiveness or lower storage size. It's the most thicc DE out there.
For me the info I want is behind the Super key. Show open apps? Super. Show the dock? Super. Search? Super. Mostly I use the dock for occasionally opening the Apps menu or the System Menu to connect something Bluetooth or change network settings. I agree it could go, but then any casual users might get lost looking at an entirely blank screen.
GNOME is very opinionated about the desktop design, which maybe explains the plugin situation, why they were the first(?) to drop X11 etc. And there's always KDE, XFCE and others.
I didnt try KDE and only used GNOME and XFCE, but i guess it's easy and clean side. I immediately get a hold of most applications, and everything feels polished without touching anything. And when i want to get something specific, i'm generally fine with complex tweakings, so the weird ways of finetuning it don't really bother me.
Back when I used Windows, many years ago, I used to have the setting that drew a ring around the cursor when you pressed ctrl. It was annoying when you used ctrl for anything else, and it was also visually ugly. You also had to remember about it when you lost the mouse, which is more difficult than it sounds like.
Needless to say, I love this feature from KDE. Not only is it way more intuitive to use and more unlikely to accidentally happen, but it also looks way better. And the fact that it keeps growing indefinitely is such a nice and fun addition.
I'm not sure what fancy zones is, some kind of manual tiling as far as 10 seconds of search shown?
That is available in kde by default, you can change layout by pressing win+t, then when pressing shift and dragging a window it will highlite nearest tile and tile automatically.
Both kwin built-in tiling and most tiling wms include ability to make a window floating while other windows are tiled. Difference is in how window manager behaves by default, most popular environments float by default with ability to tile when needed. Tiling wms tile by default with ability to float when needed.
As I've said in previous post you can try kwin tiling without any long configurations, there is a default layout so you can just drag a window with shift pressed and there would be highlighted area where it would tile.
You might be able to do all the stuff you use fancy zones for using a tiling plugin or wm. I prefer Niri but the downside is all the tiling wms I've tried require you to setup zones in text files which can be a bit confusing and intimidating the first time.
yeah, I mean, I only have 2 monitors, but since I use the sway window manager, I have it configured to automatically highlight the window that my cursor is under, so it kind of supersedes the need for a cursor locator. And all but my active window are set to dim as well, makes finding where I'm at much easier.
I feel like it could easily be explained in a tutorial or something I completely ignored, found out about it by sitting a mouse on corner of glass desk.
On Mac it gets a bit larger, then goes back to regular size after a bit even if you keep shaking. It doesn't keep getting bigger for eternity like KDE does.
A lot of software packages have existed across multiple OSes and graphical environments to provide some way to make the mouse cursor more visible, whether via creating trails or a screen-spanning crosshair or various other forms of functionality.
I don't know if that functionality is necessary, but I think that as a lot of people have moved to higher-and-higher resolution screens, that the mouse pointer defaults have not really kept pace. Like, the default mouse pointer size should maybe be larger. On my desktop system, I recently started using a monitor at a higher resolution of 165 ppi, and by default, sway didn't increase the mouse pointer size; I lost track of the pointer multiple times. I wound up resolving that with:
# Larger cursor
seat * xcursor_theme Adwaita 48
in my ~/.config/sway/config file to get a 48 pixel pointer.
I'm pretty sure that most desktop environments have some mechanism to increase pointer size, and my thinking is that the default should perhaps be to try to cover a larger portion of the user's visual arc than is currently the case.
The ideal would be to base it on visual arc...but that requires knowing how far the user is sitting from the monitor. We do have the ability to get physical monitor dimensions from the monitor, which gives ppi, which is part of the problem, but not how far the user is located from the monitor.
Laptops often have integrated webcams, and if their field of view were queryable (which, AFAIK, is not currently the case) that could let one compute that distance to the user's face using a webcam image, as long as they're using the integrated monitor. With desktops or external monitors, though...we don't generally have that monitor-surface-aligned webcam.
That leaving trails feature was more designed for very old school LCDs with extremely slow refresh time, but yeah indeed it was a feature to help visibility.
That leaving trails feature was more designed for very old school LCDs with extremely slow refresh time,
It's true that there was an type of early LCDs that had very slow response rates and that that produced a visual artifact, a visible trail behind the pointer (as well as ghosting behind anything moving). I've used those displays. But that's not what I'm talking about. There was also software that explicitly drew pointer trails to make the pointer more visible.
No shit Watson, that's exactly what I'm talking about.
My first laptop was a Toshiba 1950CT from 1994, upgraded from Windows 3.1 to 95. The screen refresh time (not to be confused with vertical refresh rate), was about a half a second.
Move the mouse pointer, it would take about half a second before the old cursor faded out and the new position cursor appeared.
I had my cursor trails set to either 2 or 3 on that thing, because moving the cursor at all made it otherwise totally disappear while the screen faded in and out between frames.
The first patch of big cursor put a cap on the size as it was a bug for it to keep getting larger. But due to popular demand the cap was removed and set as a toggle.
I love that the devs respond to feedback. Take notes gnome devs.
If I read bad news I start shaking the mouse angrily. The big cursor then hides the news I am reading and I can calm down again. Please reenable ridiculously big cursor, ty.
Very happy they worked on this feature. I done my fair share of shaking when waiting to start meetings and it looks blurry. Will look forward for this update.
I remember when this feature was added to MacOS, it must be like a decade ago now. It had the same thing where if you really put some elbow grease into the saking the cursor just got bigger and bigger but it was vector based so it never became pixilated. It was weirdly fun to do, and I often told friends to try it and all of them found it as fun as I did.
Good news: The feature you want has been a part of KDE since forever. Cursors are fully customizable with different cursor packs being available. Installing a cursor pack is very simple, just look through the different packs, select the one you want and click install. There's so many different kinds available, one is probably to your liking. And if it isn't you can probably find an artist easily enough and commission your own set.
I'm talking about a windows feature that activity changes the cursor to be the inverse of the content underneath it. If content = black, then curosr = white. If content = white, then cursor = black.
It's not so simple as downloading a curosr pack with different colored icons.
I searched the web and results are all just various forms with the feature requested, but no feature. One rumor floating around is Windows might have a patent on it or something, but I didn't go digging for that info.
I feel like a patent would've run out by now. From what I'm finding online, US patents generally only last 15-20 years. They might've filed it in a different country, and yesterday I read of a media codec patent lasting 25 years in Brazil.
But yeah, I believe that feature was in there before 2000 already, and they didn't innovate on it since, which might've allowed for a new or renewed patent.
gnome was horrible to use, even simplest things that make life easier were missing. fucking TRAY ICONS so you can more easily access some running programs?!
made me feel like its system for bunch of elitist that can act snooty when scrubs like me cant handle their minimalist perfection.
As far as I have gathered, gnome customisation is "fuck you, go patch our code. Besides, we're gonna change it whenever we want". So kudos for everyone behind extensions, but that's a shitty policy to have for gnome devs
Still though, if you ever setup 3 or more monitors, you'll find out that feature is quite useful to answer the question "What fucking screen is the mouse pointer on?!"
It's very useful in a lot of cases, when display resolution is high, when you are in a page full of text, when you have multiple monitors, when your eyesight isn 100%, when your spatial awareness or attention slips.
177 Comments
TheMightyCat@ani.social · 364 pts · 23h
Every KDE user has shaken the mouse once just to see how big it gets, this is a critical feature!
eager_eagle@lemmy.world · 88 pts · 22h
yeah, I have a 65" TV connected and it gets comically large. I wouldn't be nearly as productive without it.
UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca · 50 pts · 21h
I knew the cursor got bigger but I didn't know it would keep growing.
devfuuu@lemmy.world · 62 pts · 21h
It all depends on the stimulation.
decolo@piefed.social · 59 pts · 20h
if your cursor enlarges for over 4 hours please see a doctor
Gormadt@slrpnk.net · 17 pts · 13h
That way they can admire it too
Damage@feddit.it · 14 pts · 18h
It jumps up quickly to a bigger size and then keeps increasing more slowly if you keep shaking it.
spicytuna62@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 22h
I've never even tried this, but now I'm gonna have to give it a whirl.
Sturgist@lemmy.ca · 35 pts · 22h
Super useful for if, like myself, you lose track of your cursor quite often.
iknewitwhenisawit@fedinsfw.app · 19 pts · 18h
"He can't see us if we don't move."
Sturgist@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 17h
Except that I usually AM moving it....just sometimes ADHD brain goes:
And then I have no idea where the cursor is even when I'm moving it. I had no idea about the cursor enlargement effect until one day my mouse ran out of battery and wasn't waking up fast enough, so I was clicking and moving it back and forth really fast...got a bit of a fright when it suddenly got several times larger.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 9h
I’d honestly would expect to have a mouse locator. I think on Windows that was the alt key or something like that.
My setup doesn’t have anything like that, but I also see roughly where the mouse is since my tilingmanager gives focus to the window the cursor is over
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 22h
Doesn't work for me in KDE anymore???
Edit:
It stopped working because I switched back to X11, it only works in Wayland, but I had to switch back, I think it was because some hot keys don't work and can't be configured under Wayland. Or at least couldn't when I configured my system about a year ago.
RQG@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 19h
The secret reason Wayland is superior.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 19h
Unfortunately I had to switch back to X11 because Plasma on Wayland lacked a feature I need.
elvith@feddit.org · 12 pts · 14h
Well, now X11 lacks a feature you want…
Ertain@feddit.online · 9 pts · 20h
Now that I think about it, I should shake the cursor in KDE more.
iknewitwhenisawit@fedinsfw.app · 24 pts · 18h
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 5 pts · 18h
Beeeg
eestileib@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 18h
That was the thing I texted my friends about when I started using KDE. 😄 I loved it, perfect self-affording feature.
snowe@programming.dev · 9 pts · 19h
I use it probably ten times a day!
tauonite@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 19h
I sometimes do it at work out of boredom
Mac@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 19h
I did it often until i learned it crashes some games :(
BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world · 194 pts · 22h
If Gnome ran a restaurant, the waiter chooses the meal for you, and tut & shake their head if you try to deviate from it.
If KDE ran a restaurant, if you shake the menu it'll grow exponentially in size until it fills the restaurant.
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social · 30 pts · 20h
The gnome type of restaurant is called prix fixe, and it very much exists.
confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 20h
That type of restaurant tends to be among the best in the world.
RQG@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 19h
Which makes sense. If each day you offer one choice you can make that one really good.
But for someone who doesn't like that specific food it doesn't work. They'd prefer having different options.
Kind of similar with gnome and KDE.
dustyData@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 4h
Yes, and 99.9% of the meals you eat in your life will not be there. Because it is either prohibitively expensive and elitist gourmet BS. Or it is trivially easy to offer some choice when it is not elitist gourmet BS.
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social · 1 pts · 22m
Even at a more mundane restaurant, only having one meal for each course to worry about drastically simplifies life for the entire back line, plus it makes life easier for the chef or whoever does the ordering as well.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 24 pts · 21h
And if you want to add salt and pepper to your meal, there's a convenient store across the street that sells salt and pepper shakers. No, the Gnome restaurant will not be providing them.
Dave@lemmy.nz · 12 pts · 18h
I'm a GNOME user and extensions are pretty easy to install. I use the wiggly extension for the mouse shake to grow thing, but unfortunately it has a maximum size of 256 which is plenty big enough to find it but you can't shake it forever until it grows bigger than the screen. GNOME 0 KDE 1 🥲
dreamkeeper@literature.cafe · 4 pts · 4h
People hate on Gnome but I think it's actually great UI. Lots of hardcore Linux users shit on the windows UI but insist that Windows 7 UI clones are somehow peak UX. Gnome is more similar to Mac, but I find even easier to use. The super key is money on Gnome.
Dave@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 4h
Yeah I tried KDE for a while, people talked about how customisable it is that you can do anything. But I never found a way to recreate that super key experience.
red_tomato@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 9h
The Gnome waiter just stares in shock and confusion when you mention that you have nut allergy
Ptsf@lemmy.world · 122 pts · 23h
The massive cursor during shake is literally what sold two of my friends on Garuda getting them off Windows 😂 idk why I guess the wimsy factor is difficult to account for.
lemmyng@piefed.ca · 56 pts · 22h
The cube thing from compiz had a similar effect back in the earlier years of Ubuntu.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 22h
Compiz was insanely cool, it was better than anything we have today.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 21h
I use burn my windows and desktop cube with Gnome extensions. Kwin still supports many of these effects too. It's fun to see people's reaction.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 21h
Some of the effects have become mainstream. But there is no comparison to the real Compiz feel.
For instance the original Emerald windows dresser was amazing, and zooming with the scroll wheel combined with for instance the left win key was extremely useful. The smoothness and configurability of the cube was crazy cool.
What is available today is hollow shells of what we had.
Yes I use wobbly windows in KDE, but Compiz is 100x > Plasma.
Maiq@piefed.zip · 7 pts · 19h
Writing fire on the desktop and window animations like burn up on exit were also awesome.
KDE cube always feels like watching a b-movie version starwars. Nailed the wobbly windows though.
Compiz and cairo-dock is peak nostalgic linux for me. Tux surfing around the dock and all.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 19h
Oh boy I'm getting all nostalgic, it's 20 years ago it came out now!
MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 20h
Yeah, Compiz and Emerald were the goat!
jdr@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 20h
We still have Compiz today, you can still run it.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 19h
Thanks and yes I know.
But AFAIK it was mostly limited to Ubuntu Unity and XFCE for a long time, and support became shaky.
I actually looked it up just before, and it seems Mint has support for it, but looking at the emerald themes it looks nothing like it did back in the day where it was new and revolutionizing. Also I'm lazy, I don't care to fiddle so much with my computer anymore.
BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world · 15 pts · 22h
Yeah, I love just shaking the mouse when I'm bored or waiting for something to finish downloading.
Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 20h
Sometimes I jiggle the mouse just to see how big I can make it
Beth@piefed.social · 5 pts · 22h
Well, my first thought was also “I need to try it” so they are not alone
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 3 pts · 10h
I have the pipes screensaver and space cadet pinball (I use Arch btw)
rtxn@lemmy.world · 107 pts · 22h
GNOME's design philosophy is "we've determined that nobody needs this feature".
KDE's is "we've determined that nobody needs this feature... but it would be really cool, fuck it, we
ballcube".copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 61 pts · 21h
This is KDE we're talking about, so it would definitely be "fuck it, we kube".
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 6 pts · 9h
Klitoris
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 6h
Kdefile
jdr@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 20h
How? Trust me bro! Users hate features, they get all confused and stuff. That's why nobody should ever choose anything, the OS should just be shit forever. We also get paid by Microsoft and IBM coincidentally.
mirshafie@europe.pub · 4 pts · 11h
Is GNOME Microsoft's controlled opposition?
dreamkeeper@literature.cafe · 3 pts · 4h
Microsoft and IBM both donate to the Linux Foundation itself. They are both platinum members who regularly give them funds for all kinds of projects. This is really idiotic gotcha attempt.
jdr@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3h
A donation isn't quite the same as pay (as in salary)! I'm thinking of Miguel de Icaza and Lennart Poettering, for example.
stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 19h
Well who needs systrays anyways? While we're at it, let's remove theming support too! Surely nobody would miss that feature?
I really miss KDE. Sadly my experience with new major versions (5, 6) tends to be that plasma is unstable for daily use for at least a year or two. I'll be back once things settle down a bit.
uniquethrowagay@feddit.org · 16 pts · 18h
Plasma 6 has been nothing but great for me! Not a single crash ever since it released. It's nothing like the beginning of Plasma 5
stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 18h
Sadly my problems are with buggy applications, and hdr (more of a monitor issue than plasma itself). I'm hoping these get patched as more people yell at bad wayland support and poorly implemented hdr.
Somehow, under GNOME things "just work". Or at least it doesn't take down the entire session.
rtxn@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2h
"It implements client-side decorations, or it gets the hose again!"
antianarchist@sopuli.xyz · 76 pts · 21h
I will update as soon as I have found my cursor on my 4k screen.
Gormadt@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 13h
Don't quote me on this but I think it's somewhere to the right side of the screen. Somewhere in the chat window I think.
otacon239@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 22h
Oh my gosh finally! I can enjoy the vector experience! I’ve always felt this was missing from KDE. I would show my friends all the benefits of Linux, but when I showed them by wasting approximately 1-2 minutes, you could embiggen your mouse cursor to absurd proportions, their eyes lit up unlike anything before. They wanted it the moment they knew the potential of infinite cursor sizing.
But I often made the amateur mistake of embiggening a few pixels too far and their delight would rapidly plunge into disappointment as they came to the realization that it was simply scaling up a raster render of the cursor in a lazy post-processed Easter egg.
They all leave the room in a huff, sending my attempts to reach out directly to voicemail, unanswered. But this. This will change everything. Thank you KDE. This is what we had all been waiting for.
BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world · 21 pts · 22h
Yeah, I'm sure the KDE Foundation spent this year's entire budget on this, and it wasn't just a fun little side project for one of the many volunteers who keep open source going.
otacon239@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 22h
Oh, I love KDE. It’s my daily and I have used about a dozen DEs over the past. I just wanted to have some fun with creative writing.
DrunkVulcan@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 18h
I really love this feature, it gives me something to do while waiting for pages to load in Firefox.
When I connect to my living room TV, I can have a cursor over three feet tall.
My daughter holds the current household record by getting the cursor size so big that the whole screen is blank.
mirshafie@europe.pub · 8 pts · 11h
Blank screen from cursor shake goes hard.
McGuirk808@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 10h
I don't need this feature even a little bit.
In lieu of this, I have consistently used this feature at least twice a week ever since I found it by accident. It adds a little joy to my day.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 10h
I think it’s more “I found a thing that’s technically wrong and fixed it” and that shit pays dividends down the road when technology changes and people forget this was ever an issue. They solved it now so they don’t have to solve it later.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 9h
Kde’s mouse growing big is actually useful though.
Ever lose your mouse? Just a wiggle- which is an action I take anyway to find it- and it gets easier to find, for a moment.
Lets me make the mouse tiny.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social · 39 pts · 7h
Yes, and the low-resolution pointer when you do this excessively is just unacceptable. I'm glad they're finally addressing this pressing concern.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 7h
The just added a high res image or whatever rather than scaling it up. Someone probably fixed it in their spare time.
Shayeta@feddit.org · 13 pts · 7h
What? Why isn't it just a vector graphic?
Ross_audio@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 7h
You have to re-render vector graphics when you zoom in. Otherwise they have the same pixels stored in memory as when they were first opened.
You are always viewing a bitmap image because you have a bitmap display and it makes sense they don't load a full size cursor into memory to get rendered.
I'd be curious as to if they've rendered a full size image to sit in memory, or re-render the vector image directly as it grows.
Given the way games work re-rendering would be trivial for any computer running KDE so I'd take that bet.
programmerlexi@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 6h
Because it uses the XCursor format, which is a quite old standard. Getting apps to switch to a newer standard that has vector graphics is already hard enough. Getting them to do so without burning your GPU is basically impossible.
SystemDisc@feddit.org · 3 pts · 7h
I would assume they replaced it with an SVG that is rasterized on demand instead of a very high resolution rasterized image.
In terms of coding effort, just replacing a PNG is the easiest, but it's also the least correct solution, imo.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2h
I went and read the commit descriptions.
Previously it was using whatever cursor the theme had loaded and just scaled it up. Now it references the full set of resources for the theme and picks the appropriate one for the size.
So they went with the most correct third option: defer to the standard set by a more authoritative source. :)
avocado@programming.dev · 7 pts · 4h
That's coincidentally also what I do when I can't find my dick
Laser@feddit.org · 45 pts · 23h
Often times when there was a big new update for GNOME, I'd try it out, decide I still don't like the concept and go back to plasma.
I don't get the appeal of that desktop. Even the tiniest changes need gnome-tweaks? Why isn't that stuff part of the base settings? But ok. You can't ungimp GNOME. The usage concept is baked into it. Fine. But why?
I mean there must be people who want this and nothing else, otherwise people wouldn't use it.
MoffKalast@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 20h
For me it kinda always went something like this:
"Hey can I have window labels on my taskbar? And maybe quicklaunch. Also can I type in paths in the file manager?"
KDE: "Sure no prob."
GNOME: "You are an enemy of Christ."
memphis@sopuli.xyz · 17 pts · 21h
I don't really like to talk about it on here because people are very hostile towards GNOME and its users, but I used it (extensionless, tweakless) for about 4 years up until recently. Very comfy and efficient workflow in my opinion. I think a lot of people don't take the time to understand how it works, they get frustrated and want their alt-tabbing and minimizing back. Either way I don't really care. No emotional attachment to any DE, and I use neither GNOME nor Plasma right now.
Bhaelfur@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 20h
What do you use currently? I've been using GNOME for a few years now, but I like to try new things (then switch back to GNOME, naturally.)
memphis@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 19h
Currently using niri. It's not easy to explain, but you could say it takes GNOME's concept of infinite horizontal workspaces and applies it to individual windows.
Aganim@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 22h
Because putting QoL improvements and having an effective workflow behind a bunch of plugins that break on the tiniest Gnome update is all part of the user experience I guess. I've given it several tries over the past 20 years or so, but each attempt eventually ended in utter disappointment.
disorderly@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 21h
I don't believe you. Gnome 2 was pretty much universally loved (hence the existence of Cinnamon, which is a direct descendant), and people were pissed about the tablet-oriented Gnome 3. You'd know this if you used Gnome 20 years ago.
Aganim@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 21h
Well, my apologies for misremembering the exact Gnome 3 launch date. Turns out that was 15 years ago instead of 20. You caught me red-handed sir.
jdr@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 19h
I used gnome then, when Ubuntu would send you free CDs and GNOME was poo-flavoured. It was harder to set things up then, and I kind of see why people gave up and used some hack of the windowing kit from GIMP. Much has happened it 20 years though. KDE got worse (imho, but we have Trinity), GNOME stayed worse, and Linux became easy and mainstream.
cadekat@pawb.social · 12 pts · 22h
I guess I'm one of the few people who matches gnome pretty well. I actually appreciate that the default is 90% of what I need, and don't mind if the last 10% is maintained outside of the core project. Scope creep and all that.
VonReposti@feddit.dk · 11 pts · 22h
You don't even have a reliable way to keep track of your disk usage anymore. That was the final drop for me when they removed "Other locations" where I could see how much space was left. The Disk Usage Analyzer app is a complete mess and don't give an easy "you got 10 gigs left mate." I had to resort to the terminal to get good accurate measures. Now I have a percentage in my taskbar in Plasma.
Scrollone@feddit.it · 5 pts · 18h
GNOME used to be good until version 2. Then the developers went insane and all subsequent versions of GNOME feel like they've been designed by someone who has never worked in his life.
BladeFederation@piefed.social · 4 pts · 22h
My conspiracy theory is that it is pushed so much by Red Hat because they have optimized it to be as boring and distraction free as possible to increase productivity in an enterprise context. It is useless outside of that.
harmbugler@piefed.social · 4 pts · 13h
That's what I like about it. I use my computer to use applications and it gets out of the way.
BladeFederation@piefed.social · 4 pts · 11h
Not that I don't understand this in general, I just find it harder to actually do normal computer stuff I do. No dock, very little info in the top taskbar. That's why I said an enterprise context specifically. You'll usually open an app or two and leave it at that, maybe occasionally switch desktops to go to your second of 2 apps. Anything more than that is actively a pain. And why not ALLOW changes that don't rely on plugins? That's what really gets me. Maybe the devs believe in the maximizing of space, but then just auto hide the dock by default like macOS or even just turn it off by default instead of not even including it? That's the part that gets to me. And it is sure not using that lack of features to optimize responsiveness or lower storage size. It's the most thicc DE out there.
harmbugler@piefed.social · 3 pts · 10h
Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
For me the info I want is behind the Super key. Show open apps? Super. Show the dock? Super. Search? Super. Mostly I use the dock for occasionally opening the Apps menu or the System Menu to connect something Bluetooth or change network settings. I agree it could go, but then any casual users might get lost looking at an entirely blank screen.
GNOME is very opinionated about the desktop design, which maybe explains the plugin situation, why they were the first(?) to drop X11 etc. And there's always KDE, XFCE and others.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 4h
kde plasma does not get in your way, though
Takapapatapaka@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 3 pts · 21h
I didnt try KDE and only used GNOME and XFCE, but i guess it's easy and clean side. I immediately get a hold of most applications, and everything feels polished without touching anything. And when i want to get something specific, i'm generally fine with complex tweakings, so the weird ways of finetuning it don't really bother me.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 16h
As someone who's eye sight is getting worse, I really love this KDE Plasma feature.
The_v@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 15h
Dude, everyone I show this too loves this feature. It's such a simple solution to an ongoing issue.
black0ut@pawb.social · 18 pts · 15h
Back when I used Windows, many years ago, I used to have the setting that drew a ring around the cursor when you pressed ctrl. It was annoying when you used ctrl for anything else, and it was also visually ugly. You also had to remember about it when you lost the mouse, which is more difficult than it sounds like.
Needless to say, I love this feature from KDE. Not only is it way more intuitive to use and more unlikely to accidentally happen, but it also looks way better. And the fact that it keeps growing indefinitely is such a nice and fun addition.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 10h
Dang you know what I miss? Mouse trails. I used to enable that on every machine I touched and it would annoy my dad. 😂
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 13h
Windows PowerToys still offers this feature, and the shortcut can be remapped and disabled.
I think I’ve got it set to triple Ctrl on my work laptop? Really helps reduce the accidental triggers.
As an aside - I’m still trying to find a similar solution to FancyZones for CachyOS, don’t suppose you have any suggestions?
esc@piefed.social · 3 pts · 6h
I'm not sure what fancy zones is, some kind of manual tiling as far as 10 seconds of search shown? That is available in kde by default, you can change layout by pressing win+t, then when pressing shift and dragging a window it will highlite nearest tile and tile automatically.
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 6h
My understanding was that tiling doesn’t allow overlapping windows, is that not the case?
I am a complete novice at this, to be honest.
esc@piefed.social · 2 pts · 6h
Both kwin built-in tiling and most tiling wms include ability to make a window floating while other windows are tiled. Difference is in how window manager behaves by default, most popular environments float by default with ability to tile when needed. Tiling wms tile by default with ability to float when needed.
As I've said in previous post you can try kwin tiling without any long configurations, there is a default layout so you can just drag a window with shift pressed and there would be highlighted area where it would tile.
lfox02@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 5h
KZones?
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 4h
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This looks very promising, will check it out when I get home tomorrow night!
ProfessorHoover@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 9h
You might be able to do all the stuff you use fancy zones for using a tiling plugin or wm. I prefer Niri but the downside is all the tiling wms I've tried require you to setup zones in text files which can be a bit confusing and intimidating the first time.
yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 12h
yeah, I mean, I only have 2 monitors, but since I use the sway window manager, I have it configured to automatically highlight the window that my cursor is under, so it kind of supersedes the need for a cursor locator. And all but my active window are set to dim as well, makes finding where I'm at much easier.
MML@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 13h
I feel like it could easily be explained in a tutorial or something I completely ignored, found out about it by sitting a mouse on corner of glass desk.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · 36 pts · 18h
This is genuinely a useful feature for people who easily lose their cursor.
Sivecano@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 29 pts · 13h
common KDE w
iuseasahibtw@ani.social · 28 pts · 9h
KDE remains the superior choice.
Nalivai@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 5h
Calling Gnome simple and straightforward is quite a funny joke actually
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 5h
But ar least it's without features that
fewpeople are going to use, so there's that.Egonallanon@feddit.uk · 27 pts · 22h
I love the big cursor feature. Its great for when I lose track of it.
turbowafflz@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 21h
MacOS does this too, so its not exactly a super whacky plasma exclusive feature
Scrollone@feddit.it · 4 pts · 18h
And to be honest, I think KDE just copied it from macOS
Pucker8736@piefed.social · 1 pts · 9h
On Mac it gets a bit larger, then goes back to regular size after a bit even if you keep shaking. It doesn't keep getting bigger for eternity like KDE does.
tal@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 21h
A lot of software packages have existed across multiple OSes and graphical environments to provide some way to make the mouse cursor more visible, whether via creating trails or a screen-spanning crosshair or various other forms of functionality.
I don't know if that functionality is necessary, but I think that as a lot of people have moved to higher-and-higher resolution screens, that the mouse pointer defaults have not really kept pace. Like, the default mouse pointer size should maybe be larger. On my desktop system, I recently started using a monitor at a higher resolution of 165 ppi, and by default, sway didn't increase the mouse pointer size; I lost track of the pointer multiple times. I wound up resolving that with:
in my ~/.config/sway/config file to get a 48 pixel pointer.
I'm pretty sure that most desktop environments have some mechanism to increase pointer size, and my thinking is that the default should perhaps be to try to cover a larger portion of the user's visual arc than is currently the case.
The ideal would be to base it on visual arc...but that requires knowing how far the user is sitting from the monitor. We do have the ability to get physical monitor dimensions from the monitor, which gives ppi, which is part of the problem, but not how far the user is located from the monitor.
Laptops often have integrated webcams, and if their field of view were queryable (which, AFAIK, is not currently the case) that could let one compute that distance to the user's face using a webcam image, as long as they're using the integrated monitor. With desktops or external monitors, though...we don't generally have that monitor-surface-aligned webcam.
over_clox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21h
That leaving trails feature was more designed for very old school LCDs with extremely slow refresh time, but yeah indeed it was a feature to help visibility.
tal@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 19h
It's true that there was an type of early LCDs that had very slow response rates and that that produced a visual artifact, a visible trail behind the pointer (as well as ghosting behind anything moving). I've used those displays. But that's not what I'm talking about. There was also software that explicitly drew pointer trails to make the pointer more visible.
searches
This kind of stuff.
over_clox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17h
No shit Watson, that's exactly what I'm talking about.
My first laptop was a Toshiba 1950CT from 1994, upgraded from Windows 3.1 to 95. The screen refresh time (not to be confused with vertical refresh rate), was about a half a second.
Move the mouse pointer, it would take about half a second before the old cursor faded out and the new position cursor appeared.
I had my cursor trails set to either 2 or 3 on that thing, because moving the cursor at all made it otherwise totally disappear while the screen faded in and out between frames.
pivot_root@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 16h
As monitor tech improved to reduce ghosting it also became harder to follow where the cursor moved.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 27 pts · 12h
Finally, I was having issues with the blurriness of the big pointer
mirshafie@europe.pub · 15 pts · 11h
The new update broke my login screen but god damn the big pointer is crisp.
I shake it 4 times a day for health and meditation purposes.
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca · 27 pts · 10h
Hahahahahaahaha almost broke my wrist shaking the mouse to see how big I could get the cursor go grow. Does it ever stop?
programmerlexi@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 6h
No, it does not.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 9h
It stopped for me, when I discovered functionality. At about an inch big.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 10h
You know what doesn't get bigger when you shake it?
Babies.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 10h
JFC, lol
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 6h
Unknown file formats
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 6h
I have fun with that cursor. Win for KDE
farvascw@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 13h
So even though I have been using KDE for months now, I had no idea that the cursor would continue to get bigger if you keep shaking it, thats amazing.
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 19 pts · 10h
The first patch of big cursor put a cap on the size as it was a bug for it to keep getting larger. But due to popular demand the cap was removed and set as a toggle.
I love that the devs respond to feedback. Take notes gnome devs.
kossa@feddit.org · 18 pts · 10h
If I read bad news I start shaking the mouse angrily. The big cursor then hides the news I am reading and I can calm down again. Please reenable ridiculously big cursor, ty.
olafurp@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 22h
Very happy they worked on this feature. I done my fair share of shaking when waiting to start meetings and it looks blurry. Will look forward for this update.
M137@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 14h
I remember when this feature was added to MacOS, it must be like a decade ago now. It had the same thing where if you really put some elbow grease into the saking the cursor just got bigger and bigger but it was vector based so it never became pixilated. It was weirdly fun to do, and I often told friends to try it and all of them found it as fun as I did.
Berlinblades@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 10h
When i discovered it on my Hackintosh,i thought it was some GPU related Bug,and spent ages trying to fix it...
esc@piefed.social · 12 pts · 22h
That's an accessibility feature, why gnome doesn't have it? Another idiosyncrasy where they know better probably.
Scrollone@feddit.it · 2 pts · 18h
Because GNOME used to be good (version 2) and then they decided to fuck it up forever.
Magnus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 3h
Haha I'm so glad I'm not the only one who fucks up his hand doing this for no reason, one of the best things about transitioning to Linux
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 18h
Didn't notice this before literally this made me test it.
mat@jlai.lu · 9 pts · 7h
Just a little reminder of gnome and gtk https://stopthemingmy.app/
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 19h
I'll be happy when the cursor can be inverted color like windows.
Thorry@feddit.org · 22 pts · 19h
Good news: The feature you want has been a part of KDE since forever. Cursors are fully customizable with different cursor packs being available. Installing a cursor pack is very simple, just look through the different packs, select the one you want and click install. There's so many different kinds available, one is probably to your liking. And if it isn't you can probably find an artist easily enough and commission your own set.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 18h
I'm talking about a windows feature that activity changes the cursor to be the inverse of the content underneath it. If content = black, then curosr = white. If content = white, then cursor = black.
It's not so simple as downloading a curosr pack with different colored icons.
I searched the web and results are all just various forms with the feature requested, but no feature. One rumor floating around is Windows might have a patent on it or something, but I didn't go digging for that info.
Amir@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 18h
I did not know this existed, this is amazing
Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 16h
This is the only cursor setting ive never used for very long because its so easy to lose. May i ask why you use it?
Gormadt@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 13h
So much this
White cursor with a bold black outline is king IMO
It's visible on everything!
mofongo@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 13h
I just changed my cursor color to gold.
trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 14h
I feel like a patent would've run out by now. From what I'm finding online, US patents generally only last 15-20 years. They might've filed it in a different country, and yesterday I read of a media codec patent lasting 25 years in Brazil.
But yeah, I believe that feature was in there before 2000 already, and they didn't innovate on it since, which might've allowed for a new or renewed patent.
It might also just be a pain to implement...
AstroLightz@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 23h
Oh thank god they fixed this! Now I can actually use KDE now!
/j
harmbugler@piefed.social · 3 pts · 13h
It just broke my workflow that relies on large blurry cursor!!
wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafe · 8 pts · 21h
It's useful for finding the mouse when you have multiple screens (more than 3)
fork@feddit.online · 4 pts · 21h
I was gonna say the same thing, lol. It's very helpful.
UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 22h
Just tested it - can confirm, does look sharp.
Thanks KDE!
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 15h
Gnome is awesome but KDE is just the goat for people likeme who enjoy redesigning more than using it.
Avicenna@programming.dev · 5 pts · 19h
wait what this is a thing? brb
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 5h
Honestly I really like both.
Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 19h
I put my finger under the mouse and it jitters automatically, makes it easy to get the mouse huge so I'm glad they're thinking of users like me.
reksas@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 1h
gnome was horrible to use, even simplest things that make life easier were missing. fucking TRAY ICONS so you can more easily access some running programs?!
made me feel like its system for bunch of elitist that can act snooty when scrubs like me cant handle their minimalist perfection.
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 20h
I really don’t understand these comments about gnome not being customizable
MoffKalast@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 20h
Then you either haven't used GNOME or haven't used KDE. It's uh, it's not something that's hard to miss as far as differences go.
esc@piefed.social · 5 pts · 19h
Because it isn't? Can you even move elements in the top panel?
Shanmugha@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 18h
As far as I have gathered, gnome customisation is "fuck you, go patch our code. Besides, we're gonna change it whenever we want". So kudos for everyone behind extensions, but that's a shitty policy to have for gnome devs
Zarobi@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 21h
I first learnt about this feature when playing Scritchy Scratchy and shaking my mouse around like a loon to get money faster
Dagnet@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 22h
I hate that that feature is enabled by default, wish it asked about accessibility features on first boot instead
Danitos@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 20h
In my case I love that it's enabled by default. Would have never ocurred to me to turn it on, but love the sillynes of it.
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1h
Honestly I really love KDE, but I’m stuck on Mint, so I have no choice but to settle for Cinnamon.
jaypatelani@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 5m
Why stuck ?
Evotech@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 21h
Turned that shot off right away
over_clox@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 21h
I see someone doesn't use multiple monitors.
But hey, that's okay, you do you 👍
Still though, if you ever setup 3 or more monitors, you'll find out that feature is quite useful to answer the question "What fucking screen is the mouse pointer on?!"
esc@piefed.social · 3 pts · 19h
It's very useful in a lot of cases, when display resolution is high, when you are in a page full of text, when you have multiple monitors, when your eyesight isn 100%, when your spatial awareness or attention slips.
Evotech@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 20h
I have multiple. Just know where my mouse is
tal@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 21h
Me, using terminal emacs: The mouse pointer is generally unnecessary overhead that the user probably shouldn't be using anyway.
PillowD@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 31m
Someone discovered shake cursor...
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 0 pts · 22h
Cinnamon looks like Windows. That's it.