lmao When they implemented it I first thought this was one of those obscure KDE bugs.
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?!
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
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.
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.
As the other commenter said, when I first encountered it I whaybI though was that they put the Mac wiggle.
I don’t think it’s a thing on windows?
I didn’t mean that the feature is universally available. I meant that lots of people will intuitively start moving their mouse to find the cursor, because our eyes are good at spotting motion and because it might be placed somewhere which matches its color.
Maybe not everyone starts shaking rapidly enough to trigger the feature, but well, you don’t want it activating all the time either…
It’s a thing in macOS, however it doesn’t infinitely grow lmao
Re: on by default
IMHO, the problem isn’t that it’s on by default, it’s the fine tuning of the feature. The velocity and pattern needed to trigger it + the lack of a reasonable max scale.
MacOS has had this on by default for a decade, but it feels more intentional when it appears. Meanwhile, I litterally still see KDE threads from people trying to troubleshoot “bugs” about their cursor size.
The KDE cursor needs about 15 min of a motion designer sitting next to the engineer that coded this.
A bug with smooth af transition?
I love this game. On multi screen it gets so big
I AM NOT ALONE
There’s dozens of us!
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
I’m a normal human then! I thought I was the only one doing it, I’m glad to know I was wrong
I don’t use KDE, could someone explain? This looks fun
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.
When you wiggle the mouse on KDE, the cursor gets bigger so you can find it on big or multiple monitors.
Oh wow that’s neat! Thank you!
There is no upper limit so it keeps growing untill you stop shaking.
Hold sys/win+ + key
…big through zoom. Now keep going, you’ll enter a different universe.
Both KDE and Mac OS do this. Out of curiosity, which one did it first?
If I had to guess for Mac I’d say 5 years max. No idea about KDE
Been in Mac OS since El Capitan (10.11.0) in 2015
This blows my mind, I remember when they announced the feature and it does not seem like nearly 10 years ago. Guess I’m older than I think!
Plasma’s shake cursor plugin is a pretty recent addition, according to KDE’s GitLab it originally got merged just 10 months ago. I don’t know when macOS introduced it, I’ve read somewhere it was with El Capitan, so that would be 9 years ago. Either way, macOS was definitely first.
Thanks.
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.
challenge icsiepted! I just need to buy a 3rd monitor
Kirk steps through
What have I done
god i wish people would stop calling it just “wiggle”
Think of the gnome people!
Wtf, why do we have the same wallpaper?
I keep forgetting to turn that shit off lol
And here I can’t find how to enable it.
You need to be on Plasma 6.1+.
Then it’s under System Settings → Accessibility → Shake Cursor, although I think it gets enabled by default.
6.1.5, I don’t have it. This post says that the feature is only available for wayland sessions, so that explains it.
Yes, Wayland only.
i bet you’re wiggling right now dude don’t act like you’re above it 😎
