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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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[-] tekeous@usenet.lol 4 points 1 hour ago

It’s not big enough until the window manager crashes

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 5 points 5 hours ago

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

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

An interesting side effect for mouse jiggler attacks

[-] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 7 hours ago

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

[-] node815@lemmy.world -1 points 3 hours ago

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

[-] SitD@lemy.lol 3 points 6 hours ago

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

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 11 points 10 hours 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 11 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

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

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 12 hours ago

Nope, still functional as of Plasma 6.2.3 :)

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 7 points 12 hours ago

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

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours 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 4 points 10 hours ago

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

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago

No worries. Updated for clarity.

[-] polle@feddit.org 3 points 10 hours ago

Can confirm!

[-] tyler@programming.dev 15 points 14 hours 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.

[-] ProtonBadger@lemmy.ca 47 points 20 hours ago

It has replaced idly making selection squares on the desktop.

[-] jdadam@lemm.ee 28 points 20 hours ago

My kids love making the cursor fill the screen.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 10 points 15 hours ago

Feature moment

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 58 points 23 hours 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 21 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Ahh another sophisticated LetsGameItOut enjoyer. Right on. :D

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

[-] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 42 points 23 hours ago

I hope it’s never changed, absolutely fabulous

[-] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 19 points 21 hours 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.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 35 points 23 hours ago

I love this feature so much.

[-] je_skirata@lemmy.today 11 points 23 hours ago

I do this for fun while waiting for things to load

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 11 points 23 hours ago

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

[-] asudox@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 23 hours 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 38 points 23 hours 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 21 hours ago

Where do you set this option?

[-] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 hours ago

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

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

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

[-] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 13 points 23 hours 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.

[-] variants@possumpat.io 5 points 23 hours ago

That's my wife's default cursor size

[-] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 11 points 17 hours ago

so your wife likes bbc (big black cursor)

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 hours ago

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

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago

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

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