Hold sys/win+ + key
…big through zoom. Now keep going, you’ll enter a different universe.
I discovered this by accident, and I’m happy to know others are doing it too.
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.
System Settings -> Input&Output -> Accessibility -> Shake Cursor
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Both KDE and Mac OS do this. Out of curiosity, which one did it first?
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.
Thanks.
If I had to guess for Mac I’d say 5 years max. No idea about KDE
Got mine 2 4k monitors tall when I showed my wife.
We’re still talking about the mouse cursor, right?
I’m sure she was super impressed.
Now you have a new custom wallpaper :)
i got it to cover the whole screen once.
It just keeps growing
Ha! I got it to cover my two screens. After that i was pretty beat tho.
And here I am, thinking I was the only one doing this.
Sadly, as soon you hit printscreen (which opens spectacle) the mouse cursor unceremoniously returns to its original size. No shrinking, just plop.
Interesting. Ubuntu/PopOS screenshot tool freezes the screen upon hitting the button. Unfortunately it doesn’t have the cursor feature
I was going to suggest setting a delay in Spectacle, but seems like the enlarged mouse cursor does not show up in screenshots, even if you set “Include mouse pointer”…
lmao When they implemented it I first thought this was one of those obscure KDE bugs.
A bug with smooth af transition?
Yeah. It’s one of those things where I’m sure it’s genuinely useful to some people but why on Earth is it on by default?!
It’s a thing in macOS, however it doesn’t infinitely grow lmao
Because shaking your cursor to spot it is kind of universal?
Fair. It still should be communicated better though, because it really does feel like a bug when you first encounter it.
MacOS had that feature for a long time, it’s pretty intuitive. I’ve never heard of someone thinking it’s a bug despite MacOS being very mainstream nowadays
Personally I’m going to have to agree with them as well I installed Kde recently and this exact feature I thought was a bug. When digging around on Google for about 15 minutes before realizing it was a feature I had to turn off.
We clearly live in different bubbles because this is the first time I’ve seen someone refer to MacOS as “very mainstream”. iOS, sure, but I haven’t seen many Macs out in the wild. It’s certainly not common to the point where people would expect MacOS behaviour as the default.
MacOS has 25% market share for desktop operating systems in the United States. That counts as mainstream to me
Around 15% here in Germany. That’s more than I expected, but it isn’t mainstream. At least not in the sense that people will expect MacOS behaviour by default on their computers, or even to the point where you can expect familiarity with MacOS from most users.
As the other commenter said, when I first encountered it I whaybI though was that they put the Mac wiggle.
I love this game. On multi screen it gets so big
I don’t use KDE, could someone explain? This looks fun
When you wiggle the mouse on KDE, the cursor gets bigger so you can find it on big or multiple monitors.
There is no upper limit so it keeps growing untill you stop shaking.
They added this thing to find your mouse, by moving it the cursor gets bigger and biggerShake 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.
I AM NOT ALONE
There’s dozens of us!
Wtf, why do we have the same wallpaper?
I’m a normal human then! I thought I was the only one doing it, I’m glad to know I was wrong
