yeah, I have a 65" TV connected and it gets comically large. I wouldn't be nearly as productive without it.
I knew the cursor got bigger but I didn't know it would keep growing.
I've never even tried this, but now I'm gonna have to give it a whirl.
"He can't see us if we don't move."
Except that I usually AM moving it....just sometimes ADHD brain goes:
OMFG! WHAT'S THAT OVER THERE!
And then I have no idea where the cursor is even when I'm moving it. I had no idea about the cursor enlargement effect until one day my mouse ran out of battery and wasn't waking up fast enough, so I was clicking and moving it back and forth really fast...got a bit of a fright when it suddenly got several times larger.
Doesn't work for me in KDE anymore???
Edit:
It stopped working because I switched back to X11, it only works in Wayland, but I had to switch back, I think it was because some hot keys don't work and can't be configured under Wayland. Or at least couldn't when I configured my system about a year ago.
If Gnome ran a restaurant, the waiter chooses the meal for you, and tut & shake their head if you try to deviate from it.
If KDE ran a restaurant, if you shake the menu it'll grow exponentially in size until it fills the restaurant.
The gnome type of restaurant is called prix fixe, and it very much exists.
That type of restaurant tends to be among the best in the world.
Which makes sense. If each day you offer one choice you can make that one really good.
But for someone who doesn't like that specific food it doesn't work. They'd prefer having different options.
Kind of similar with gnome and KDE.
The difference is, most people go to a restaurant to eat food, so the restaurant can get really good at making food that humans eat.
People use a computer system to do all kinds of things. It is a lot harder to make one choice that will please everybody.
Yes, and 99.9% of the meals you eat in your life will not be there. Because it is either prohibitively expensive and elitist gourmet BS. Or it is trivially easy to offer some choice when it is not elitist gourmet BS.
Even at a more mundane restaurant, only having one meal for each course to worry about drastically simplifies life for the entire back line, plus it makes life easier for the chef or whoever does the ordering as well.
If Gnome ran a restaurant, the waiter chooses the meal for you, and tut & shake their head if you try to deviate from it.
And if you want to add salt and pepper to your meal, there's a convenient store across the street that sells salt and pepper shakers. No, the Gnome restaurant will not be providing them.
I'm a GNOME user and extensions are pretty easy to install. I use the wiggly extension for the mouse shake to grow thing, but unfortunately it has a maximum size of 256 which is plenty big enough to find it but you can't shake it forever until it grows bigger than the screen. GNOME 0 KDE 1 🥲
People hate on Gnome but I think it's actually great UI. Lots of hardcore Linux users shit on the windows UI but insist that Windows 7 UI clones are somehow peak UX. Gnome is more similar to Mac, but I find even easier to use. The super key is money on Gnome.
The Gnome waiter just stares in shock and confusion when you mention that you have nut allergy
Are you implying GNOME is the ableist desktop environment? It might be even though it has lots of accessibility features.
Implication or not. GNOME is hit or miss with accessibility features. They've done some stuff, but they could still do more at no particular greater cost to them other than a shift in attitude. Which…you know… GNOME.
I use burn my windows and desktop cube with Gnome extensions. Kwin still supports many of these effects too. It's fun to see people's reaction.
Some of the effects have become mainstream. But there is no comparison to the real Compiz feel.
For instance the original Emerald windows dresser was amazing, and zooming with the scroll wheel combined with for instance the left win key was extremely useful. The smoothness and configurability of the cube was crazy cool.
What is available today is hollow shells of what we had.
Yes I use wobbly windows in KDE, but Compiz is 100x > Plasma.
Thanks and yes I know.
But AFAIK it was mostly limited to Ubuntu Unity and XFCE for a long time, and support became shaky.
I actually looked it up just before, and it seems Mint has support for it, but looking at the emerald themes it looks nothing like it did back in the day where it was new and revolutionizing. Also I'm lazy, I don't care to fiddle so much with my computer anymore.
Unfortunately KDE still has serious shortcomings compared to what was possible with Compiz.
For instance hot keys cannot be bound to mouse keys. Which is extremely annoying here 20 years later that it can't.
Until recently you couldn't even bind them to numpad keys! Because QT didn't support it. So it was the same for ALL QT programs.
I like KDE it is a decent desktop, but even today it is not as good as Compiz was 20 years ago.
Yeah, I love just shaking the mouse when I'm bored or waiting for something to finish downloading.
Sometimes I jiggle the mouse just to see how big I can make it
Wait until they find it you can make the windows wiggle when you shake them.
Always the first thing I enable.
Kdefile
"we've determined that nobody needs this feature"
How? Trust me bro! Users hate features, they get all confused and stuff. That's why nobody should ever choose anything, the OS should just be shit forever. We also get paid by Microsoft and IBM coincidentally.
We also get paid by Microsoft and IBM coincidentally.
Microsoft and IBM both donate to the Linux Foundation itself. They are both platinum members who regularly give them funds for all kinds of projects. This is really idiotic gotcha attempt.
Well who needs systrays anyways? While we're at it, let's remove theming support too! Surely nobody would miss that feature?
I really miss KDE. Sadly my experience with new major versions (5, 6) tends to be that plasma is unstable for daily use for at least a year or two. I'll be back once things settle down a bit.
Plasma 6 has been nothing but great for me! Not a single crash ever since it released. It's nothing like the beginning of Plasma 5
Sadly my problems are with buggy applications, and hdr (more of a monitor issue than plasma itself). I'm hoping these get patched as more people yell at bad wayland support and poorly implemented hdr.
Somehow, under GNOME things "just work". Or at least it doesn't take down the entire session.
I will update as soon as I have found my cursor on my 4k screen.
Kde’s mouse growing big is actually useful though.
Ever lose your mouse? Just a wiggle- which is an action I take anyway to find it- and it gets easier to find, for a moment.
Lets me make the mouse tiny.
Yes, and the low-resolution pointer when you do this excessively is just unacceptable. I'm glad they're finally addressing this pressing concern.
Because it uses the XCursor format, which is a quite old standard. Getting apps to switch to a newer standard that has vector graphics is already hard enough. Getting them to do so without burning your GPU is basically impossible.
You have to re-render vector graphics when you zoom in. Otherwise they have the same pixels stored in memory as when they were first opened.
You are always viewing a bitmap image because you have a bitmap display and it makes sense they don't load a full size cursor into memory to get rendered.
I'd be curious as to if they've rendered a full size image to sit in memory, or re-render the vector image directly as it grows.
Given the way games work re-rendering would be trivial for any computer running KDE so I'd take that bet.
I would assume they replaced it with an SVG that is rasterized on demand instead of a very high resolution rasterized image.
In terms of coding effort, just replacing a PNG is the easiest, but it's also the least correct solution, imo.
I turned it off. I never need it or want it. But I won't hate anyone else who uses it like gnome devs do.
It's also a nice time waster to try and see how big you can get it before whatever it is you're waiting for is done
I don't need this feature even a little bit.
In lieu of this, I have consistently used this feature at least twice a week ever since I found it by accident. It adds a little joy to my day.
I think it’s more “I found a thing that’s technically wrong and fixed it” and that shit pays dividends down the road when technology changes and people forget this was ever an issue. They solved it now so they don’t have to solve it later.
Oh my gosh finally! I can enjoy the vector experience! I’ve always felt this was missing from KDE. I would show my friends all the benefits of Linux, but when I showed them by wasting approximately 1-2 minutes, you could embiggen your mouse cursor to absurd proportions, their eyes lit up unlike anything before. They wanted it the moment they knew the potential of infinite cursor sizing.
But I often made the amateur mistake of embiggening a few pixels too far and their delight would rapidly plunge into disappointment as they came to the realization that it was simply scaling up a raster render of the cursor in a lazy post-processed Easter egg.
They all leave the room in a huff, sending my attempts to reach out directly to voicemail, unanswered. But this. This will change everything. Thank you KDE. This is what we had all been waiting for.
Yeah, I'm sure the KDE Foundation spent this year's entire budget on this, and it wasn't just a fun little side project for one of the many volunteers who keep open source going.
I really love this feature, it gives me something to do while waiting for pages to load in Firefox.
When I connect to my living room TV, I can have a cursor over three feet tall.
My daughter holds the current household record by getting the cursor size so big that the whole screen is blank.
Often times when there was a big new update for GNOME, I'd try it out, decide I still don't like the concept and go back to plasma.
I don't get the appeal of that desktop. Even the tiniest changes need gnome-tweaks? Why isn't that stuff part of the base settings? But ok. You can't ungimp GNOME. The usage concept is baked into it. Fine. But why?
I mean there must be people who want this and nothing else, otherwise people wouldn't use it.
For me it kinda always went something like this:
"Hey can I have window labels on my taskbar? And maybe quicklaunch. Also can I type in paths in the file manager?"
KDE: "Sure no prob."
GNOME: "You are an enemy of Christ."
I don't really like to talk about it on here because people are very hostile towards GNOME and its users, but I used it (extensionless, tweakless) for about 4 years up until recently. Very comfy and efficient workflow in my opinion. I think a lot of people don't take the time to understand how it works, they get frustrated and want their alt-tabbing and minimizing back. Either way I don't really care. No emotional attachment to any DE, and I use neither GNOME nor Plasma right now.
Because putting QoL improvements and having an effective workflow behind a bunch of plugins that break on the tiniest Gnome update is all part of the user experience I guess. I've given it several tries over the past 20 years or so, but each attempt eventually ended in utter disappointment.
I don't believe you. Gnome 2 was pretty much universally loved (hence the existence of Cinnamon, which is a direct descendant), and people were pissed about the tablet-oriented Gnome 3. You'd know this if you used Gnome 20 years ago.
As KDE user, Gnome 2 was the best Gnome has ever been, (Cinnamon is a good offspring of it though). I used the carp out of it. I cried and drank myself to sleep for days after Gnome 3 replaced it.
I have even bigger hopes for COSMIC. If DE any can run a black sword through Gnome 3, it will be COSMIC.
I used gnome then, when Ubuntu would send you free CDs and GNOME was poo-flavoured. It was harder to set things up then, and I kind of see why people gave up and used some hack of the windowing kit from GIMP. Much has happened it 20 years though. KDE got worse (imho, but we have Trinity), GNOME stayed worse, and Linux became easy and mainstream.
I guess I'm one of the few people who matches gnome pretty well. I actually appreciate that the default is 90% of what I need, and don't mind if the last 10% is maintained outside of the core project. Scope creep and all that.
You don't even have a reliable way to keep track of your disk usage anymore. That was the final drop for me when they removed "Other locations" where I could see how much space was left. The Disk Usage Analyzer app is a complete mess and don't give an easy "you got 10 gigs left mate." I had to resort to the terminal to get good accurate measures. Now I have a percentage in my taskbar in Plasma.
My conspiracy theory is that it is pushed so much by Red Hat because they have optimized it to be as boring and distraction free as possible to increase productivity in an enterprise context. It is useless outside of that.
That's what I like about it. I use my computer to use applications and it gets out of the way.
Not that I don't understand this in general, I just find it harder to actually do normal computer stuff I do. No dock, very little info in the top taskbar. That's why I said an enterprise context specifically. You'll usually open an app or two and leave it at that, maybe occasionally switch desktops to go to your second of 2 apps. Anything more than that is actively a pain. And why not ALLOW changes that don't rely on plugins? That's what really gets me. Maybe the devs believe in the maximizing of space, but then just auto hide the dock by default like macOS or even just turn it off by default instead of not even including it? That's the part that gets to me. And it is sure not using that lack of features to optimize responsiveness or lower storage size. It's the most thicc DE out there.
Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
For me the info I want is behind the Super key. Show open apps? Super. Show the dock? Super. Search? Super. Mostly I use the dock for occasionally opening the Apps menu or the System Menu to connect something Bluetooth or change network settings. I agree it could go, but then any casual users might get lost looking at an entirely blank screen.
GNOME is very opinionated about the desktop design, which maybe explains the plugin situation, why they were the first(?) to drop X11 etc. And there's always KDE, XFCE and others.
I didnt try KDE and only used GNOME and XFCE, but i guess it's easy and clean side. I immediately get a hold of most applications, and everything feels polished without touching anything. And when i want to get something specific, i'm generally fine with complex tweakings, so the weird ways of finetuning it don't really bother me.
I mean there must be people who want this and nothing else,
Honestly I am on gnome, because I do not know shit about linux. I did not even know what gnome or plasma were, when I started, barely still understand the difference even now. I just picked some distros that were recommended for a total noob coming from windows, and stuck with the one I liked the best.
I like GNOME's workflow, more importantly it breaks less often than KDE does for me. My fiance's computer uses KDE because it has a more Windows-like UI, it's also the one that runs into weird graphical glitches and issues.
Examples, we plugged the new TV into it to watch something recently, since then the lock screen started glitching the fuck out having two different clocks flickering overtop of each other, even back on the original monitors.
New headphones didn't work right away because it had defaulted to an incompatible audio stream, changing it was buried under three different menus... we knew it wasn't the headphones because they worked fine with my computer, using GNOME. I've never had to dig through settings like that to use headphones with any other OS or desktop environment, but I did with KDE.
From the sheer amount of people that recommend KDE I have to assume that for most people it works, and that's great. My experience is that it's buggy and fiddly to use, GNOME for me is not. It's what I use on my main computer so that I don't have to troubleshoot stupid shit when I get off work. I like the less cluttered UI and the multi-desktop focused layout, plus it feels WAY more polished than KDE which has always felt jank to me.
Back when I used Windows, many years ago, I used to have the setting that drew a ring around the cursor when you pressed ctrl. It was annoying when you used ctrl for anything else, and it was also visually ugly. You also had to remember about it when you lost the mouse, which is more difficult than it sounds like.
Needless to say, I love this feature from KDE. Not only is it way more intuitive to use and more unlikely to accidentally happen, but it also looks way better. And the fact that it keeps growing indefinitely is such a nice and fun addition.
Dang you know what I miss? Mouse trails. I used to enable that on every machine I touched and it would annoy my dad. 😂
Windows PowerToys still offers this feature, and the shortcut can be remapped and disabled.
I think I’ve got it set to triple Ctrl on my work laptop? Really helps reduce the accidental triggers.
As an aside - I’m still trying to find a similar solution to FancyZones for CachyOS, don’t suppose you have any suggestions?
I'm not sure what fancy zones is, some kind of manual tiling as far as 10 seconds of search shown? That is available in kde by default, you can change layout by pressing win+t, then when pressing shift and dragging a window it will highlite nearest tile and tile automatically.
You might be able to do all the stuff you use fancy zones for using a tiling plugin or wm. I prefer Niri but the downside is all the tiling wms I've tried require you to setup zones in text files which can be a bit confusing and intimidating the first time.
yeah, I mean, I only have 2 monitors, but since I use the sway window manager, I have it configured to automatically highlight the window that my cursor is under, so it kind of supersedes the need for a cursor locator. And all but my active window are set to dim as well, makes finding where I'm at much easier.
But ar least it's without features that few people are going to use, so there's that.
KDE remains the superior choice.
This is genuinely a useful feature for people who easily lose their cursor.
JFC, lol
JFC, lol
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Hahahahahaahaha almost broke my wrist shaking the mouse to see how big I could get the cursor go grow. Does it ever stop?
No, it does not.
only one inch?
KDE wins again
Finally, I was having issues with the blurriness of the big pointer
I love the big cursor feature. Its great for when I lose track of it.
MacOS does this too, so its not exactly a super whacky plasma exclusive feature
On Mac it gets a bit larger, then goes back to regular size after a bit even if you keep shaking. It doesn't keep getting bigger for eternity like KDE does.
A lot of software packages have existed across multiple OSes and graphical environments to provide some way to make the mouse cursor more visible, whether via creating trails or a screen-spanning crosshair or various other forms of functionality.
I don't know if that functionality is necessary, but I think that as a lot of people have moved to higher-and-higher resolution screens, that the mouse pointer defaults have not really kept pace. Like, the default mouse pointer size should maybe be larger. On my desktop system, I recently started using a monitor at a higher resolution of 165 ppi, and by default, sway didn't increase the mouse pointer size; I lost track of the pointer multiple times. I wound up resolving that with:
# Larger cursor
seat * xcursor_theme Adwaita 48
in my ~/.config/sway/config file to get a 48 pixel pointer.
I'm pretty sure that most desktop environments have some mechanism to increase pointer size, and my thinking is that the default should perhaps be to try to cover a larger portion of the user's visual arc than is currently the case.
The ideal would be to base it on visual arc...but that requires knowing how far the user is sitting from the monitor. We do have the ability to get physical monitor dimensions from the monitor, which gives ppi, which is part of the problem, but not how far the user is located from the monitor.
Laptops often have integrated webcams, and if their field of view were queryable (which, AFAIK, is not currently the case) that could let one compute that distance to the user's face using a webcam image, as long as they're using the integrated monitor. With desktops or external monitors, though...we don't generally have that monitor-surface-aligned webcam.
That leaving trails feature was more designed for very old school LCDs with extremely slow refresh time,
It's true that there was an type of early LCDs that had very slow response rates and that that produced a visual artifact, a visible trail behind the pointer (as well as ghosting behind anything moving). I've used those displays. But that's not what I'm talking about. There was also software that explicitly drew pointer trails to make the pointer more visible.
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No shit Watson, that's exactly what I'm talking about.
My first laptop was a Toshiba 1950CT from 1994, upgraded from Windows 3.1 to 95. The screen refresh time (not to be confused with vertical refresh rate), was about a half a second.
Move the mouse pointer, it would take about half a second before the old cursor faded out and the new position cursor appeared.
I had my cursor trails set to either 2 or 3 on that thing, because moving the cursor at all made it otherwise totally disappear while the screen faded in and out between frames.
As monitor tech improved to reduce ghosting it also became harder to follow where the cursor moved.
I have fun with that cursor. Win for KDE
The first patch of big cursor put a cap on the size as it was a bug for it to keep getting larger. But due to popular demand the cap was removed and set as a toggle.
I love that the devs respond to feedback. Take notes gnome devs.
gnome was horrible to use, even simplest things that make life easier were missing. fucking TRAY ICONS so you can more easily access some running programs?!
made me feel like its system for bunch of elitist that can act snooty when scrubs like me cant handle their minimalist perfection.
Tray icons? You had to use Gnome Tweaks for the most basic things, like adjusting fonts.
It's somewhat decent on touch screens. I use it on an old convertible Lenovo. But on my main system i still prefer KDE.
Ehh, I loved Gnome with the bottom panel hidden and tiling manager installed via gnome shell extensions. KDE just feels like it hasn't substantially changed in ~15 years and just feels dated and like a halfway attempt at recreating Aero. I've moved over to Cosmic and I yearn for my gnome days but it's getting better with each release.
why change something if it works though?
i took a look at cosmic and it looks nice, maybe i'll try it too at some point. How much do i need to think about stuff not working on it? I can play and run what I want on mint with steam and wine, is it the same with distros that use cosmic?
I remember when this feature was added to MacOS, it must be like a decade ago now. It had the same thing where if you really put some elbow grease into the saking the cursor just got bigger and bigger but it was vector based so it never became pixilated. It was weirdly fun to do, and I often told friends to try it and all of them found it as fun as I did.
When i discovered it on my Hackintosh,i thought it was some GPU related Bug,and spent ages trying to fix it...
Just a little reminder of gnome and gtk https://stopthemingmy.app/
Not like everyone else doesn't do it, like qt. The only platform that doesn't do it is Windows. And we know how that turned out.
Gnome tries to be Apple but even worse
Didn't notice this before literally this made me test it.
I'll be happy when the cursor can be inverted color like windows.
Good news: The feature you want has been a part of KDE since forever. Cursors are fully customizable with different cursor packs being available. Installing a cursor pack is very simple, just look through the different packs, select the one you want and click install. There's so many different kinds available, one is probably to your liking. And if it isn't you can probably find an artist easily enough and commission your own set.
I'm talking about a windows feature that activity changes the cursor to be the inverse of the content underneath it. If content = black, then curosr = white. If content = white, then cursor = black.
It's not so simple as downloading a curosr pack with different colored icons.
I searched the web and results are all just various forms with the feature requested, but no feature. One rumor floating around is Windows might have a patent on it or something, but I didn't go digging for that info.
This is the only cursor setting ive never used for very long because its so easy to lose. May i ask why you use it?
I feel like a patent would've run out by now. From what I'm finding online, US patents generally only last 15-20 years. They might've filed it in a different country, and yesterday I read of a media codec patent lasting 25 years in Brazil.
But yeah, I believe that feature was in there before 2000 already, and they didn't innovate on it since, which might've allowed for a new or renewed patent.
It might also just be a pain to implement...
It's useful for finding the mouse when you have multiple screens (more than 3)
Oh thank god they fixed this! Now I can actually use KDE now!
/j
It just broke my workflow that relies on large blurry cursor!!
Just tested it - can confirm, does look sharp.
Thanks KDE!
Thats why "easy to use" is very subjective.
Gnome is sure easy but if things mess up and i need to reinstall? I had to hunt and reinstall my extensions and enable the right settings. That could take like 30 mins or more, after reinstalling the distro.
In minimal setup like sway? I can literally git clone and then stow all my dot files. No more than 5 mins. I could do it with 10 beers at 3am in.
I just have a bash with all my extensions , takes like 2 seconds to run
Honestly I really love KDE, but I’m stuck on Mint, so I have no choice but to settle for Cinnamon.
Why stuck ?
It just works and I don’t want to jumble around anymore.
I use KDE, but Cinnamon is what Gnome should have been. Cinnamon has just enough customization to make a person happy but it's not so overwhelming a KDE can be for beginners.
I do have high hopes for COSMIC after a few more iterations. They have something good cookin' there.
i agree kde is awesome
Guys chillax, there is only one respecting winner here; Thumbs down, XFCE.
Customising (not gonna say the racist word)?...............XFCE.
Lightweight?......................................................................XFCE.
Can look like the other two?.............................................XFCE.
Can be debloated even in the settings?...........................XFCE.
Supports both X11 and wayland (if that matters)?.........XFCE.
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written by: (hopefully) fellow XFCE glazer.
P.S. Yes I mean that sarcastic/non-sarcastic. Yes I'm in my own bubble. Yes I use systemd free systems (and waiting for a good glibc-free one too!). Yes I'm autistic.
You could be more right than I thought. Usually it can go one of two ways: underdeveloped or respectively efficient
But while yes, XFCE may look like the left behind friend in highschool, who still lives in the cellar of their mom, I'd expect that it is left that way on purpose. It has many adaptable features and can be debloated to near any extent.
(skip this part if you don't need a life story) I personally fell in love with it 'cause I was on multiple MASSIVE hysteria-hypetrains of Tiling WMs and diy distros (etc.) but never completed my journey due to my failed efforts and patience running out.
Now after many rabbitholes of "systemd-free", "glibc-free", "debloated", (list goes on) I learned to accept that I don't get everything and made compromises with myself to settle with a not-half-bad (or not-half-good) distro with XFCE.
Yes you need a bit of good knowledge of Linux and especially file systems to use this to the fullest and not just as a nearly pre-given and pre-customised DE (like swapping cursors or fiddling with lightdm (basically sddm)), but when that's the best you get, take it.
P.S. I may be a glazer of all of these things but I can assure you I'll be at a slightly different point of things in about half a year again ('cause've another rabbithole ofc).
P.P.S. For reference I use PeppermintOS (devuan based) which, hates me, I hate it (...sometimes), but it fixes itself if you do the groundwork (don't ask me how, it just does).
(sry for the monologue)
No it isn't. Unless KDE has had a major debloat since KDE4. XFCE is lightning fast.
Honestly I really like both.
Or Wayfire. I confess to having wobbled windows as fast as possible until my graphics driver crashed.
Honestly I always disabled all animations. I don't want eyecandy. Preferably I want to control the computer with a neural link that integrates my thoughts as a control surface. Or Sway, in lieu of that.
Or rescue terminal. I also feel safe and loved in the grub rescue environment.
I first learnt about this feature when playing Scritchy Scratchy and shaking my mouse around like a loon to get money faster
Then you either haven't used GNOME or haven't used KDE. It's uh, it's not something that's hard to miss as far as differences go.
As far as I have gathered, gnome customisation is "fuck you, go patch our code. Besides, we're gonna change it whenever we want". So kudos for everyone behind extensions, but that's a shitty policy to have for gnome devs
GNOME just works for me. Installed the blur the shell extension or whatever it's called, and that's it! In 5 years, never felt the need for anything more!
KDE forever. I don't understand anyone who still uses Gnome.
I have an old box running Gnome on Ubuntu. I did a massive update hoping they finally fixed some of my gripes with it.
still no right click -> create text file in the file browser
Welp, I'll update again in two years
I see someone doesn't use multiple monitors.
But hey, that's okay, you do you 👍
Still though, if you ever setup 3 or more monitors, you'll find out that feature is quite useful to answer the question "What fucking screen is the mouse pointer on?!"
It's very useful in a lot of cases, when display resolution is high, when you are in a page full of text, when you have multiple monitors, when your eyesight isn 100%, when your spatial awareness or attention slips.
Cinnamon looks like Windows. That's it.
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Community rules (click to expand)
1. Follow the site-wide rules
- Instance-wide TOS: https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
- Lemmy code of conduct: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/code_of_conduct.html
2. Be civil
- Understand the difference between a joke and an insult.
- Do not harrass or attack users for any reason. This includes using blanket terms, like "every user of thing".
- Don't get baited into back-and-forth insults. We are not animals.
- Leave remarks of "peasantry" to the PCMR community. If you dislike an OS/service/application, attack the thing you dislike, not the individuals who use it. Some people may not have a choice.
- Bigotry of any kind will not be tolerated. This is an LGBTQ+-friendly community -- if that is a problem for you, you should leave.
3. Post Linux-related content
- Including Unix and BSD.
- Non-Linux content is acceptable as long as it makes a reference to Linux. For example, the poorly made mockery of
sudoin Windows. - No porn, no politics, no trolling or ragebaiting.
- Don't come looking for advice, this is not the right community.
4. No recent reposts
- Everybody uses Arch btw, can't quit Vim, <loves / tolerates / hates> systemd, and wants to interject for a moment. You can stop now.
5. 🇬🇧 Language/язык/Sprache
- This is primarily an English-speaking community. 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇺🇸
- Comments written in other languages are allowed.
- The substance of a post should be comprehensible for people who only speak English.
- Titles and post bodies written in other languages will be allowed, but only as long as the above rule is observed.
6. (NEW!) Regarding public figures
We all have our opinions, and certain public figures can be divisive. Keep in mind that this is a community for memes and light-hearted fun, not for airing grievances or leveling accusations.
- Keep discussions polite and free of disparagement.
- We are never in possession of all of the facts. Defamatory comments will not be tolerated.
- Discussions that get too heated will be locked and offending comments removed.
Please report posts and comments that break these rules!
Important: never execute code or follow advice that you don't understand or can't verify, especially here. The word of the day is credibility. This is a meme community -- even the most helpful comments might just be shitposts that can damage your system. Be aware, be smart, don't remove France.
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