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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.

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[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 65 points 1 month ago

"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"

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ahh another sophisticated LetsGameItOut enjoyer. Right on. :D

"Got it, got it, goooot it..." (DrKonqi coredump) "Perfect!" (Fanfare)

[-] ProtonBadger@lemmy.ca 55 points 1 month ago

It has replaced idly making selection squares on the desktop.

[-] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 46 points 1 month ago

I hope it’s never changed, absolutely fabulous

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 month ago

I love this feature so much.

[-] jdadam@lemm.ee 33 points 1 month ago

My kids love making the cursor fill the screen.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago

Feature moment

[-] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] tyler@programming.dev 19 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 16 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Note: Only on Plasma 6.0 (edit: and up)

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

Nope, still functional as of Plasma 6.2.3 :)

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

I thought they meant "Not if you are still on Plasma 5" but maybe I misinterpreted it.

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Correct. 6.0 is when it was introduced.
I keep trying it on 5 and then remembering and being sad.

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

Ah sorry, I thought you meant that it was a bug introduced in 6.0 that was fixed or something

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

No worries. Updated for clarity.

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

Ha I also noticed this in the last week and assumed it was a feature, not a bug

[-] tekeous@usenet.lol 12 points 1 month ago

It’s not big enough until the window manager crashes

[-] je_skirata@lemmy.today 12 points 1 month ago

I do this for fun while waiting for things to load

[-] asudox@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 month ago

No, I don't think it is an easter egg. Probably just a missing check in code that needed to be done.

[-] TimeWalker@lemmy.foxden.party 40 points 1 month 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
[-] penquin@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

Where do you set this option?

[-] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

By default on recent KDE but search shake mouse in desktop settings

[-] penquin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Those two lines normally go into a config file somewhere. That's what I want to know

[-] penquin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Ai says it goes in

~/.config/kwinrc
[-] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 15 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago

The cursor used to appear pixelated at high magnifications until they switched to it a vector to fix it, so definitely intentional

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

An interesting side effect for mouse jiggler attacks

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

I've made it span my 2 monitors. It's funny. Best feature yet.

[-] SitD@lemy.lol 5 points 1 month ago

time for those groups of right lower-arm muscles to get their well-deserved spot in the limelight, lads 😎

[-] variants@possumpat.io 5 points 1 month ago

That's my wife's default cursor size

[-] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 month ago

so your wife likes bbc (big black cursor)

[-] variants@possumpat.io 2 points 1 month ago

haha nah its teal actually

[-] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Feels like a feature. The first time I tested this feature it was first: not dynamically textured, meaning that a small 32x32 pixel imagine got 256x256 or smth. And the size was limited.

Now its actually rendered like a vector graphics and funnily enough, its shaking never stops increasing the size. I love when fun is allowed on your desktop

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Thank you for doing the science for us. That was entertaining

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

thanks. I was trying to find this out but I'd constantly slip up and let it shrink.

[-] polle@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

Can confirm!

[-] node815@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

You just have to turn it off. It's an accessibility feature if you don't want it:

[-] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nope, thats a different topic.

this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2024
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