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[-] trumpetmouth@lemmy.world 58 points 2 months ago

for real though, the CTRL tap accessibility feature to find the cursor is a lifesaver

[-] edinbruh@feddit.it 81 points 2 months ago

On KDE and on MacOS, if you shake the cursor it becomes larger

[-] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 66 points 2 months ago

And larger...and larger...

[-] zwerg@feddit.org 50 points 2 months ago

No lying, wiggling my mouse until it becomes HUGE is my go to activity during boring video calls.

[-] lengau@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago

Try putting it on the speaker's nose and jiggling.

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

Only in KDE, and i think now we can limit that in settings

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[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

I guess this confirms that I am a man, because I refuse to do anything except jiggle the mouse until I see it.

[-] Klairabelle@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Am woman, learned today you can use CTRL to find it as I too wiggle it until I find it.

[-] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago

that's what she said!

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 58 points 2 months ago
[-] Willem@kutsuya.dev 38 points 2 months ago

wiggle it until it's the size of a monitor, and if you're brave, it'll take over EVERYTHING.

I love it that KDE didn't limit the growing of it :)

[-] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 2 months ago

i still do this for fun about once a week or so

[-] whimsy@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

One of the few features that I'm missing from niri :')

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[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 41 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I had a similar matrix of screens at my old job: Seismic survey observer desk. Three rows tall, four columns wide.

They weren't all connected to the same PC, though; If I remember correctly:

  • Top row was one PC (linux)
  • Middle row was another (linux)
  • Bottom left was its own PC (It ran msdos 6.22. Excellent OS for realtime stuff!)
  • Bottom right was its own (linux)
  • middle two at the bottom was windows.

They were all connected to a Raritan KVM switch, so I used that to select which row to control. The exception was on bottom left and bottom right which had a dedicated keyboard and mouse.

I have a picture of it somewhere, but I can't seem to find it.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

you'd love synergy. it's a client you install on multiple devices and allows you to share one keyboard and mouse across as many devices as you want.

you can even share the clipboard too.

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

Well aware of it. Used it between the top two rows.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Bottom left was its own PC (It ran msdos 6.22. Excellent OS for realtime stuff!)

really? I used 6.22 back in the day - what's it still being used for these days?

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not sure if it's still in use today, but the above description was 2008 through 2012. Msdos was used for "gun timing", which basically amounted to extreme precision when it came to opening or shutting some solenoid valves. The computer had a GPS input and a bunch of serial outputs, and a control line (also serial).

The control line sent instructions of which solenoid to open when, a time reference was determined by the GPS, and you can probably guess what the serial outputs were for.

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[-] VegOwOtenks@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago
[-] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 months ago
[-] Noja@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 months ago

The cursor is on Monitor 3 (there is no monitor 3 but Windows thinks there is)

[-] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

I'm confused... Cursor? Surely you control everything via keyboard?

[-] prettybunnys@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago
[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Image with just text saying "ME: it doesn't have a tail, so I'm pretty sure it's a hamster." Tech Support: "\*Sigh* fine. Right click on your hamster...:

(Shamelessly stolen from this very community.)

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 22 points 2 months ago

right-click and see where a menu opens.

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[-] CForsyth@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago
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[-] chattre@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 months ago

KDE shaky shaky

[-] Subscript5676@piefed.ca 11 points 2 months ago

What is this activity you call "looking for my cursor?

On my computer, I summon my cursor.

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[-] derry@midwest.social 11 points 2 months ago

Fooled us all. That's a tanning booth.

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago

I now undestand whom that KDE cursor is for?

[-] Speiser0@feddit.org 8 points 2 months ago

That's why you have eyes in the panel.

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[-] Gumbyyy@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago
[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I struggle with my neck and 3 screens. I've gotten really good at doing a bunch of shit at once on one screen so my neck doesn't hurt as much lol

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[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It would be funny af if there was a way to make the computer think the screen size was infinite (just for the mouse) so you could send your cursor 20 miles away and never find it again.

[-] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago

Where the fuck is the image? Not loading for me

[-] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Check monitor number 8, it may have opened there.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago

Loads fine for me. It's someone sitting in front of a desk with 15 large monitors surrounding them in a semicircle, 3 monitors stacked on top of one another in 5 columns.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

There's no way he ever looks at the top row.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

this is why he can't find his mouse.

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[-] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

And people rib me for having 3 screens. Yes yes, tell me how much cancer they are giving me per square second.

[-] Soapbox@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

Cancer? From monitors? Is that a thing people believe? Do they think "the 5G comes from all them screens" ?

[-] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Literal doctors trying to convince me that monitors emit cancer causing radiation.

I had to explain to a doctor what ionizing radiation was... And that's how I learned that doctors are just like every other profession. And there are just as many morons that graduated med school as morons that graduated high school (proportionately).

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[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Wait what? They give cancer? Outgassing or something?

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[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 months ago

surely just using the terminal?

[-] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Go to mouse l settings, make your cursor larger and change the contrast. So when the curse is black and it goes over something white and then white when it goes over black

[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

That's why I no longer code in C#.

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