Finally, I was having issues with the blurriness of the big pointer
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2026
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The new update broke my login screen but god damn the big pointer is crisp.
I shake it 4 times a day for health and meditation purposes.
common KDE w
So even though I have been using KDE for months now, I had no idea that the cursor would continue to get bigger if you keep shaking it, thats amazing.
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.
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As someone who's eye sight is getting worse, I really love this KDE Plasma feature.
Dude, everyone I show this too loves this feature. It's such a simple solution to an ongoing issue.
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. π
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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.
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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.
Blank screen from cursor shake goes hard.
without features that few people are going to use
Every KDE user has shaken the mouse once just to see how big it gets, this is a critical feature!
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.
It all depends on the stimulation.
if your cursor enlarges for over 4 hours please see a doctor
That way they can admire it too
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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...
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 waiter just stares in shock and confusion when you mention that you have nut allergy
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This is genuinely a useful feature for people who easily lose their cursor.
GNOME's design philosophy is "we've determined that nobody needs this feature".
KDE's is "we've determined that nobody needs this feature... but it would be really cool, fuck it, we ~~ball~~ cube".
fuck it, we ~~ball~~ cube
This is KDE we're talking about, so it would definitely be "fuck it, we kube".
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I will update as soon as I have found my cursor on my 4k screen.
Don't quote me on this but I think it's somewhere to the right side of the screen. Somewhere in the chat window I think.
The massive cursor during shake is literally what sold two of my friends on Garuda getting them off Windows π idk why I guess the wimsy factor is difficult to account for.
I have the pipes screensaver and space cadet pinball (I use Arch btw)
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