Comment on Most mouse pointers designs assume right-handed users

ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• homes@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, there was like, a 15 year period. Where nobody ran standard cursor on their desktops. People would have these crazy animated things that would just drive you crazy.

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  • Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The mouse cursor should be almost invisible, not draw attention to itself.

    Linux solved a problem I didn’t really know I was having. getting old, lose the cursor because old. Wiggle the mouse around and the cursor grows like the grinches heart long enough for me to see it, then it goes back to normal.

    ms… they put a white circle which you can’t see if you press some weird ass keyboard combo that may or may not also open edge and attempt to create a ms account (I dunno if this is true, they just suck)

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    • homes@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      macOS does the mouse-wiggle thing, too. super-useful!

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    • moody@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Keep wigling the mouse and eventually there’s nowhere the pointer can possibly hide from you.

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Which distro/desktop environment? I have only seen that on macOS.

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      • charizardcharz@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        KDE has it, I believe it was added in either Plasma 6 or 6.1.

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      • Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        this was specificLly on bazzite. I am changing from it since it’s kinda restrictive but works good overall

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      • GiveOver@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Does it on KDE for me, not sure about OP

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      • fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        As others told you, it’s a KDE thing, and it’s imitating MacOS’s feature.

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    • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can set a tap of ctrl to make a circle around the cursor

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      • Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        ya that’s what I was saying.

        microslops idea of finding it is bad…I lose the circle too. Image

        Linux is easily findable. Image

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  • bluGill@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I need the mouse cursor to be better at drawing attention to itself at times though. When you have a couple big monitors often finding where that cursor is hiding becomes a problem.

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    • homes@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      fortunately, on macOS, all you have to do is wiggle the mouse a bit, and it’ll get really big for a moment so you can find it, lol… it’s super-helpful!

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      • grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        KDE does that too.

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    • hayalci@fstab.sh ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I do increase the size of the cursor permanently, and colour them brightly. It works wonders, a bright pink or cyan or orange cursor always makes me smile a bit when I stop to appreciate it.

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  • klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Honestly mouse cursor customization is the one thing I miss from KDE, I love having goofy animations as my cursor

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    • SuDmit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wdym? I run Ubuntu with KDE and there certainly is cursor customization. You can choose one of defaults or download any cursor you want externally.

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      • klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I switched off of KDE, and now I miss being able to do it

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  • Naz@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

    Says the person who was jealous of their cool custom cursors 😎

    Look at that man, operating a nuclear powerplant terminal with a Starcraft cursor

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  • WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    On Linux I still use a pretty non standard cursor it is an animated cat

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just like ringtones

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• WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I still use a customized mouse on my work computer.

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