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    [–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    god i wish people would stop calling it just "wiggle"

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

    Think of the gnome people!

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago
    [–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

    Hold sys/win+ + key

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

    [–] [email protected] 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.

    [–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

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

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

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

    [–] [email protected] 24 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.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Been in Mac OS since El Capitan (10.11.0) in 2015

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

    This blows my mind, I remember when they announced the feature and it does not seem like nearly 10 years ago. Guess I’m older than I think!

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

    Now you have a new custom wallpaper :)

    [–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago

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

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

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

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

    I’m sure she was super impressed.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

    Wtf, why do we have the same wallpaper?

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

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

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

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

    [–] [email protected] 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/

    [–] [email protected] 43 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.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Oh wow that's neat! Thank you!

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

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

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

    Kirk steps through

    What have I done

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