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For about a week, I had my coworker's face as my cursor. Just because I could. I wanted to see how long it would take people to notice. I share my screen a lot. I was surprised it took that long.
In my early edgy metal phase I used the Sign of the horns as a custom cursor.
Fun fact, in Germany this hand sign is often called Pommesgabel (fries fork)
Pommesgabel (fries fork)
I was stationed in [the former West] Germany from 1985-1988. Upon arrival we had a week-long quickstart intro to German culture. One of the lessons taught was srsly, don't pick up your fries with your fingers!!! I forgot about that until reading your comment. :-)
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https://github.com/supermariofps/hatsune-miku-linux-cursors/
When my laptop is in presentation mode, I use this instead:
I'd love to implement my own cursor so I have things like cursor trail, but it's a lot harder than I thought. Something about hardware cursor.
Oh, thats so cute. Got a kasane teto one?
default breeze, the black one
EDIT : Downloaded a win 3.1 dark version just for the hell of it , since you prompted me https://store.kde.org/p/999998
Quite fond of it. To the point where I kind of have to use these cursors on any PC I seriously use. Ordinary cursors just look out of place. At the very least, I always want tailless cursors. Seeing a tail on my cursor just feels old-fashioned, vestigial, and cringe to me.
That's interesting, i guess i'm the old fashioned type then cause i'm the reverse of that. Cursors without a tail always look off to me. It's why i never liked things like bibata eventhough it seems to be pretty popular.
That actually looks okay
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People downvoting because now they have to customize their cursor and never considered it before lol
Loving just the stock KDE Breeze theme
Polarnight:
Looks pretty; I might try that one out myself.
Call me weird, but the cursors are just about the only visual element of my desktop that I don't customize. Boring default X cursors all the way!
I'm actually on Windows (please don't murder me), but I use KDE's Oxygen cursors, and have for about 12 years.
I use Posy's
Eyyyy there are dozens of us! I used to manage IT for a school trust - about 2000 endpoints - and I actually pushed it out to every single one of them. They're more pleasing to my eye, they scale perfectly and are easier to track. I got compliments from art teachers and SEND workers which is about as high a praise as you can imagine.
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After downloading tons of them, and trying them out on various computers over a range of screen sizes and resolutions, and also considering what fits with the vibe of my theming, I have ended up with Breeze. Pretty basic, but I love it. I have to use Windows at work, and got Breeze on there as well.
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Phinger Cursors, was using Capitaine Cursors before that but i didn't like that the pre-built binaries were hosted on pling, or atleast i couldn't figure out how to get the actual download url from there for the sake of packaging, and building from source takes so long, so i ended up looking for something that had pre-builts hosted elsewhere.
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Default.
Elementary os cursor
The one with the blinking white block. Except when I'm in insert mode of vim then blinking white line
I was looking for the obligatory 'I use a tiling WM btw' comment but it seems that everyone is touching grass here
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i use bibata modern classic
Bibata Modern Ice here!
Standard breeze, but I use light cursors on a dark background. I think that makes more sense.
Bibata Original Ice at day & Bibata Original Classic at Night
On windows 11 you can turn your regular cursor various colors, including green and pink, and I wish KDE could do that. I could edit cursor vectors myself, but I don't wanna. Too lazy. I like colorful cursors because they're easier to find and track, but I don't want those big bloated cutesy cursors.
page through these.. you should find a few different cursor themes that would work for you:
Not yet mentioned:
Polar cursors - long time classic. The download seems to have a wrong extension, correct is .tar.bz2.
I also just noticed Oreo cursors - not sure if I like them yet:
I use Beat Cursor Pack by HeroOfYore https://github.com/HeroOfYore/Yore-Cursorpacks/releases/tag/v1.1.0-beat
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