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Every KDE user has shaken the mouse once just to see how big it gets, this is a critical feature!
That was the thing I texted my friends about when I started using KDE. π I loved it, perfect self-affording feature.
I use it probably ten times a day!
I sometimes do it at work out of boredom
I knew the cursor got bigger but I didn't know it would keep growing.
It jumps up quickly to a bigger size and then keeps increasing more slowly if you keep shaking it.
It all depends on the stimulation.
if your cursor enlarges for over 4 hours please see a doctor
yeah, I have a 65" TV connected and it gets comically large. I wouldn't be nearly as productive without it.
I did it often until i learned it crashes some games :(
Now that I think about it, I should shake the cursor in KDE more.
Beeeg
I've never even tried this, but now I'm gonna have to give it a whirl.
Super useful for if, like myself, you lose track of your cursor quite often.
"He can't see us if we don't move."
Except that I usually AM moving it....just sometimes ADHD brain goes:
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.
The secret reason Wayland is superior.
Unfortunately I had to switch back to X11 because Plasma on Wayland lacked a feature I need.