It’s not big enough until the window manager crashes
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I've made it span my 2 monitors. It's funny. Best feature yet.
An interesting side effect for mouse jiggler attacks
The cursor used to appear pixelated at high magnifications until they switched to it a vector to fix it, so definitely intentional
time for those groups of right lower-arm muscles to get their well-deserved spot in the limelight, lads 😎
i hope someone working on KDE sees this and says "well this is unacceptable. we have to figure out why this is causing so much frame lag" and the ability to enhugen your cursor remains forever.
Note: Only on Plasma 6.0 (edit: and up)
Nope, still functional as of Plasma 6.2.3 :)
I thought they meant "Not if you are still on Plasma 5" but maybe I misinterpreted it.
Correct. 6.0 is when it was introduced.
I keep trying it on 5 and then remembering and being sad.
Ah sorry, I thought you meant that it was a bug introduced in 6.0 that was fixed or something
No worries. Updated for clarity.
This might get me to try KDE lol. I’ve used this feature on my Mac for years just when I get bored in meetings and I’ve always wanted it to grow to that size.
You just have to turn it off. It's an accessibility feature if you don't want it:
It has replaced idly making selection squares on the desktop.
Can confirm!
"Time for my favourite game, is there a limit?
--several hours later --
if there is I couldn't find it but check out my frame rate now"
Ahh another sophisticated LetsGameItOut enjoyer. Right on. :D
"Got it, got it, goooot it..." (DrKonqi coredump) "Perfect!" (Fanfare)
My kids love making the cursor fill the screen.
Feature moment
I hope it’s never changed, absolutely fabulous
Managed to get it to fill a whole 1200x1920 (not a typo, screen is sideways) screen without shrinking once. It is always fun to do.
I love this feature so much.
Ha I also noticed this in the last week and assumed it was a feature, not a bug
I do this for fun while waiting for things to load
No, I don't think it is an easter egg. Probably just a missing check in code that needed to be done.
It's by design as mentioned in this bug report.
There is a hidden config to cap the over magnification on shake
[Effect-shakecursor]
OverMagnification=0
Where do you set this option?
By default on recent KDE but search shake mouse in desktop settings
Ai says it goes in
~/.config/kwinrc
Those two lines normally go into a config file somewhere. That's what I want to know
This feature used to be in KDE 5 as well though, but with a size cap. I suspect the removal of the size cap is intentional rather than a bug.
That's my wife's default cursor size
so your wife likes bbc (big black cursor)
haha nah its teal actually
Thank you for doing the science for us. That was entertaining
thanks. I was trying to find this out but I'd constantly slip up and let it shrink.