There doesn't appear to be a limit to the maximum size the KDE cursor can get when you shake it.

2 years ago by moonpiedumplings to c/linux

I find this hilarious. Is this an easter egg? When shaking my mouse cursor, I can get it to take up the whole screens height.

This is KDE Plasma 6.

jared 28 points 2 years ago

I just turned it on the other day out of curiosity, now I'm jigglin' my mouse to see how big I can get it.

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KillerTofu 17 points 2 years ago

Nah baby, I swear! You just gotta jiggle it.

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onlinepersona -3 points 2 years ago

It's PNG? I was hoping it would be a vector image to have unpixelated monster mouse pointer goodness.

Anti Commercial-AI license

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ElectroLisa 7 points 2 years ago

Newer Plasma versions use Vector pointers when available

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notprogrammer 18 points 2 years ago

There doesn't appear to be a limit to the maximum size the KDE cursor can get when you shake it.

And that's a good thing!

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JackGreenEarth 14 points 2 years ago

Why would shaking the cursor make it bigger in the first place? Is this an accessibility feature to find the cursor?

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schizo 19 points 2 years ago

Yeah, and Windows and OS X both do it as well.

Though there being no upper limit to the size is amusing.

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Rhaedas 5 points 2 years ago

Can't tell if lazy programming or just figuring it will fix itself. In theory there would be a point of overflow maybe? Well, I guess that also fixes itself.

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TimeWalker 13 points 2 years ago

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

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schizo 4 points 2 years ago

I assume the KDE implementation resizes to default when you stop shaking it.

I could totally see someone coding a function that increases the mouse pointer by x% every y mouse shakes, and then neglecting to put in a size cap.

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moonpiedumplings 4 points 2 years ago

I could totally see someone coding a function that increases the mouse pointer by x% every y mouse shakes, and then neglecting to put in a size cap.

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.

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Rhaedas 1 point 2 years ago

Yes, it resets once motion is stopped. It's one of those things where without comments in the code or something you could also assume forgetting to check one of the bounds just happened to work fine.

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sukhmel 1 point 2 years ago

MacOS does this, but on screen recording it never shows it. Feels good to see Linux records what user actually saw

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CMDR_Horn 8 points 2 years ago

Yes. It was enhanced and enabled by default in KDE6

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HorreC 8 points 2 years ago

Dude I love that feature soooo much, I found it like 2 months ago and I shake it all the time. Its like a normal thinking thing for me now, spin it while I use my thinking meat on things.

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fmstrat 4 points 2 years ago

I always just slide my mouse to the top left, and eventually I see it.

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