I unironically think that the throbbing kde cursor is the best accessibility feature ever. I have spent years using computers with multiple monitors not being able to find my fucking cursor. I just wiggle it a bit and boom there it is. I fucking love it. Every desktop should have it as a setting you can enable.

@puppygirlhornypost2

The common operating systems do have such features.

Windows for example had one going all the way back to at least windows 95.

When enabled you can press CTRL and it'll show an animation with a bunch of circles around the cursor that fall into it.

@puppygirlhornypost2
I also love that there is no max size. Don't see it yet? Keep wiggling. Want to cover your entire screen? Why not

@puppygirlhornypost2 I’ve recently switched to sway on my laptop and this is one of the features I’ve missed most, actually! It’s just so useful

@puppygirlhornypost2 kde ftw

@puppygirlhornypost2 macos has the same thing. it’s clever but it unsettles my brain

@puppygirlhornypost2 hard agree!!!!!

@puppygirlhornypost2 macOS has it too but KDE's is better because it grows for a while if you keep wiggling it

@puppygirlhornypost2 Is it that special actually? o.O I am very used to this feature form macOS that has it for years now... and on Windows 11 it's part of the Microsoft PowerToys package I think.

@puppygirlhornypost2 I believe Mac OS does it too, which is great.

It should be a standard feature cause even with one monitor I can lose the cursor.

@OllieBranch @puppygirlhornypost2 the. Macos cursor is a bit too sensitive, the hitchyness of Bluetooth can cause the mouse to grow randomly

@puppygirlhornypost2 of course you call it that

@stringlapse how else do you describe something that gets bigger the more you play with it

@puppygirlhornypost2 im never speaking again

@stringlapse @puppygirlhornypost2 replying to an amber post is always a mistake

@Charlotte @puppygirlhornypost2 truly. it will happen again

@stringlapse @Charlotte @puppygirlhornypost2 amber tricked me into searching for puppygirl inflation once...

@puppygirlhornypost2 @stringlapse id call it my daily dose :3

@puppygirlhornypost2 can confirm that macos has exactly the same feature

i think the windows equivalent is "draw a circle around the cursor if you press ctrl" instead, which is way less fun than making the cursor grow

@catsalad i heard catgirl are becoming more expensive, you should search for catgirl inflation

@stringlapse @Charlotte @puppygirlhornypost2

@puppygirlhornypost2
It's a neat feature. On Windows I recommend the inverted extra large cursor - it's black on white backgrounds and vice versa, dynamically.

@puppygirlhornypost2 plus it's a great fidget toy

@puppygirlhornypost2 I need the cursor to stay the exact same size when waggling it around because I like to stim with it, and I second this. I think it should be the default everywhere. I’m entirely willing to turn it off every single time I’m faced with default settings. Also it’s fun to waggle it so much it eventually takes up 80% of the screen

@puppygirlhornypost2 I turn that feature off everywhere because I keep accidentally triggering it

@puppygirlhornypost2 On MX Linux, I use the key combo of Ctrl+Alt+M and a large red circles appears on the screen. I love using that so much. Sometimes just to see the animation that comes with it.

@puppygirlhornypost2 Was this a KDE or a macOS setting first ?

(macOS also has it).

@jbiserkov @puppygirlhornypost2 If you have an Intel or nvidia card, see how this cursor works for you (it won't work properly on AMD cards unfortunately).

@jernej__s @puppygirlhornypost2
Thanks, I tried it, I have an Nvidia card, looks nice on some backgrounds, but bad on others. Reverted to the inverted one. I'm curious to learn more about it thought. Is there a blog post about it? And why the heck does it not work on ATI ;-) cards?

@jbiserkov @puppygirlhornypost2 It works in the same way as the inverted cursor – instead of there being a single bitmap with alpha channel, there are two bitmaps, one with pixels and the other one with screen mask (before translucent cursors, every cursor was like this; painting it involved ANDing the mask, then XORing the bitmap). The difference is that inverted cursor just uses white pixels in bitmap (which results in inverted colours), while this one has a gradient there.

AMD drivers apparently try to be clever, and instead of doing the AND and XOR operations with the actual cursor, they only use the mask image, so you don't get the weird colours that result from XORing the gradient.

BTW, I've got some more experiments like this here: https://eternallybored.org/imgs/mousecursors/invertedtest/