In KDE the more you shake the mouse the bigger the cursor gets till it takes up one whole screen
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I learned recently it comes from MacOS (at least MacOS does it too)
I guess we need to extend this chart somewhat...
The most important is at the bottom of that curve, right?
Well, yes, but also the lowest-paid.
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On KDE Plasma when you shake the cursor it gets bigger, with no size limit.
On macOS it also does but there is a limit.
I don't know whether Windows does because I've never used it, but I'd assume so.
Neither do I know about other DEs.
I saw a bug report when KDE Plasma 6 was released that the cursor keeps growing indefinitely. A dev responded like "yeah I noticed that but decided it's actually a great feature"
I think you can enable something where you can press control and it will put a big circle around your cursor but it's not enabled by default which is stupid and it's not obvious because it's a random keyboard key.
It's a utility under PowerToys called Find My Mouse.
You can set it to either double pressing the left or right Control key, shake the cursor or a custom shortcut.
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For those interested, there is a gnome extension called Wiggly that does this a similar thing.
Used to be called Wiggle, but development and bug fixing seems to have stopped on that one.
Windows doesn't. I lose my cursor all the time even though I made it neon green.
Doesn't Windows have the option to configure a hotkey to indicate cursor location? Maybe in the accessibility settings or something? It's been a while since I've used Windows.
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Shake till it gets big
😐 What gets big exactly?
It's a feature in KDE that if you shake or move the mouse fast the cursor gets bigger so you can find it.
Debian 13 + KDE Plasma - Why does the mouse get so huge? HAAAAHAHAHAHA
My favorite part is that it keeps getting bigger as you continue shaking it, eventually resulting in a big-ass cursor that can't be contained in one display lol
...What? I was bored...
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macOS also has this feature under the name "Shake mouse pointer to locate".
Yeah I think it been a Mac feature since like 2018, but more newly adopted in KDE. But either way it’s just a helpful UX idea, and potentially aligns with someone’s behavior of just like moving the mouse fast to verify it’s still working
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KDE's is different (and better) in that it seemingly has no cap on the size you can make the cursor. You can get your cursor bigger than your display.
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This is it. This is the threshold of where a VR headset and a virtual desktop manager makes more sense.
I can't believe no one's posted this yet
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I refuse to believe that this setup is actually efficient. You cannot possibly actually need that much information on screen at the same time. I think Houston mission control has less going on than this.
This is just having a lot of screens for the sake of it.
keeps him warm ?
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I work at a stock brokerage and I can confirm this is exactly the screen layouts these people have. By these people I'm talking about day traders I don't actually know what this person is doing.
And yes they do look across all of those screens. I sat next to a guy who had six screens arranged in 3x2, the way he explained it he has all sorts of programs mostly in the domains of communication and news and he doesn't even look at the other screens but when something moves it triggers his peripheral vision and he acts on it. Another day trader I know has nine screens in 3x3 but he only uses the bottom half of his screen real estate because he can't read the top, he just likes having a big rectangular-like screen.
It's all about peripheral vision to these kinds of professionals. They are 100% not looking at all of those screens, they just need to set up things to react to.
This guy is a meme though nobody is reacting to something happening right above your head.
Wtf is this ? What the hell are they doing that requires 18 screens ?
Reminds me of the workstation from ~~"Halle Berry's Breasts: The Movie"~~ Swordfish.
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What aren’t they doing?
IDK but I've seen pics of 911 operator setups with some absurd number of screens and I bet there's a lot of stuff that would be useful for them to have open.
Makes sense yeah. I guess at this point it's a monitoring station more than a computer, i.e the operator is not gonna have many interactions with it other than looking at the screens
My parents were 911 dispatchers for decades. It's how they met. They had 7 monitors last time I visited them at work 20 years ago. Their applications seemed to be built on the idea they had multiple monitors worth of space that they'd be stretched across.
If I remember accurately, there were 2 computers (and thus 2 mice and 2 keyboards). The first computer had 5 monitors and was the Google Maps equivalent for where all the active ambulances in the city were. The main application stretched across multiple monitors and had sub-windows with different operations in them. I think it also managed the radio between dispatcher and ambulance. The second computer was dedicated to the phone, the caller, any history attached to the phone number, and all the data 911 gets about your location. It took up the remaining few monitors. By now it's probably 1 computer and even more monitors.
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I have a friend who works for Transpower (company in charge of NZ electric grid) and occasionally goes into their control rooms. Apparently they have set ups like this. It gets worse, because there are several computers hooked up to the different monitors, so not only do they have a wall of monitors, they have a bunch of different keyboards and mice (mouses?) that they have to hunt through if they want to actually interact with something
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Maybe that would be a better screen setup?
A least he's getting enough light. Maybe not the right wavelength though.
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I have had friends and coworkers send this meme to me repeatedly because my WFH setup is closer to this than I'd like to admit. Fuck it though, I find it helpful.
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This is why I like KDE Plasma. Just shake the mouse and watch the cursor get bigger.
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