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I have fun with that cursor. Win for KDE
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.
Yes, and the low-resolution pointer when you do this excessively is just unacceptable. I’m glad they’re finally addressing this pressing concern.
The just added a high res image or whatever rather than scaling it up. Someone probably fixed it in their spare time.
What? Why isn’t it just a vector graphic?
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.
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.
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.
KDE remains the superior choice.
Just a little reminder of gnome and gtk https://stopthemingmy.app/
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.
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.
Hahahahahaahaha almost broke my wrist shaking the mouse to see how big I could get the cursor go grow. Does it ever stop?
No, it does not.
It stopped for me, when I discovered functionality. At about an inch big.
You know what doesn’t get bigger when you shake it?
Babies.
JFC, lol
JFC, lol
Unknown file formats
Finally, I was having issues with the blurriness of the big pointer
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.
common KDE w
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.
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.
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.
When i discovered it on my Hackintosh,i thought it was some GPU related Bug,and spent ages trying to fix it…
As someone who’s eye sight is getting worse, I really love this KDE Plasma feature.
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.
Dude, everyone I show this too loves this feature. It’s such a simple solution to an ongoing issue.
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.
Dang you know what I miss? Mouse trails. I used to enable that on every machine I touched and it would annoy my dad. 😂
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Blank screen from cursor shake goes hard.
This is genuinely a useful feature for people who easily lose their cursor.
without features that few people are going to use
Every KDE user has shaken the mouse once just to see how big it gets, this is a critical feature!
yeah, I have a 65" TV connected and it gets comically large. I wouldn’t be nearly as productive without it.
I knew the cursor got bigger but I didn’t know it would keep growing.
It all depends on the stimulation.
if your cursor enlarges for over 4 hours please see a doctor
That way they can admire it too
It jumps up quickly to a bigger size and then keeps increasing more slowly if you keep shaking it.
That was the thing I texted my friends about when I started using KDE. 😄 I loved it, perfect self-affording feature.
I’ve never even tried this, but now I’m gonna have to give it a whirl.
Super useful for if, like myself, you lose track of your cursor quite often.
“He can’t see us if we don’t move.”
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
I use it probably ten times a day!
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.The secret reason Wayland is superior.
Unfortunately I had to switch back to X11 because Plasma on Wayland lacked a feature I need.
Well, now X11 lacks a feature you want…
Now that I think about it, I should shake the cursor in KDE more.
Beeeg
I sometimes do it at work out of boredom
I did it often until i learned it crashes some games :(
