• wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      161·
      2 个月前

      KDE’s great, but cursor finding stuff isn’t a Linux specific selling point.

      Windows has had an option to highlight your mouse when pressing Ctrl since at least Windows XP, possibly as far back as 98. It’s an option through the old control panel all the way through 10, and I believe 11 as well (but I use the powertoys version on 11, it looks better than the built in one).

      Pretty sure Mac has/had the “wiggle to make the cursor big” thing for a while too.

      • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        14·
        2 个月前

        I have re-read OP several times, and I missed the part where a specific feature for a specific DE was touted as a “Linux specific selling point”

      • errer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 个月前

        Windows has the wiggle to make the cursor big feature if you use PowerToys, a Microsoft-created utility pack

      • redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        2 个月前

        KDE cursor shake is enabled by default. And an easy to find checkbox in the settings.
        I don’t think most Windows 10 or 11 users look through the old control panel anymore. I have honestly never seen anyone enable the ctrl cursor highlight before, but the cursor shake is enabled on most KDE systems I interact with.

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 个月前

      I know that Windows does this and the pointer grows a modest amount.

      This… this feature just reeks of typical coder shenanigans, and I’m here for it. It’s a green flag since someone thought enough about every contingency on a very niche feature.

      What I think happened here is: an ideal size couldn’t be agreed upon by the team, they just made the cursor grow forever until you’re done shaking. That and someone involved has an absolutely stupid number of pixels in front of them and needed that much more cursor to get the job done.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 个月前

    So long as your wireless mouse doesn’t need to wake up and the 2 second lag in waking, connecting, and moving is just enough time for you to look at the wrong monitor and wonder.

    . . . Dangit

  • Harvey656@lemmy.world
    81·
    2 个月前

    You only use two monitors? Also plasma fixes this. Sometimes I just shake my mouse to make the cursor massive for giggles

  • JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    3·
    2 个月前

    One of the first settings I change on any new system is to make the cursor green. Seems to help enormously with this.