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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, and this only gets worse with bigger monitors. Want to use that 43" TV as Monitor #3? Wigglin' isn't going to help.

Real users give up and start using keyboard shortcuts to move crap around until they find it again.

Or just get a wireless gaming mouse with adjustable DPI, crank it up to 11 billion, and try to catch it doing near lightspeed as it goes through all four monitors at once. The only drawback is that, according to physics, it will likely have experienced time dilation, which means your mouse cursor has aged significantly in the short time it was in flight.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

On macOS if you wiggle the mouse quickly the cursor gets bigger.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Windows lets you optionally use CTrL to highlight the cursor for a moment

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m about to change (and possibly ruin) your perspective on mouse cursors in Windows: https://youtu.be/YThelfB2fvg?si=JvS-iAQ4-tJ1w60Q

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

One of us needs a review on relativistic physics (but it's probably me). Shouldn't the cursor experience less time than you?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (5 children)

In Windows you can add a pulse effect to the mouse that's triggered by pressing Control. It's under the visibility settings.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-add-a-highlighter-to-your-mouse-pointer-in-windows-10/

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago

In my culture we invoke the ancient rune drawing of a bunch of really fast circles with the mouse.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

For Apple people, there’s a setting in Mac OS to make the cursor giant if you shake it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

For Linux people, it depends on your distro/DE/WM

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yep. It’s enabled by default, actually

[–] bdonvr 5 points 1 year ago

Actually I'm pretty sure that's enabled by default now

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or even easier: right click

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Too dangerous.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I have accidentally deleted my operating system.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

KDE can do that as well

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

My coworkers make fun of me when I share my zoom screen and my cursor is big and bright green. I never lose my mouse cursor though.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I enabled the feature that shows you where the cursor is with a big circle when you press Ctrl. Works like a charm.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's a default windows setting

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This was driving me crazy so I made the cursor big and inverted colors, no problems finding it now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

At the beginning I also inverted it, but I have changed it to red, it also looks very good and also good if you want to indicate something in a Screenshot

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Big cursor gang

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How much time are you people losing to this? It takes me less than a second to find my cursor again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I have 3 high res monitors and the middle is an ultra wide, so there's quite a bit of area to scan for what is normally a tiny cursor.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Ctrl key shows where the cursor is, easy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you enable it in mouse settings

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just wiggle my mouse like an idiot until the cursor hits my vision, because you know...i'm in control of the input device.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does anyone else move their mouse like a bat out of hell to look for the cursor?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

That's the whole point. Human vision is more sensitive to movement than to still elements. When you move it batshit crazy your inner hunter instinct kicks in and you find the cursor

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

And now you know why it’s called a curser.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Keyboard Focused Tiling Window Manager Users: 🤷

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I use powertoys and have the mouse highlighting tool enable when I shake the cursor back and forth.

Before this tool I also moved it around so I could see it, now it becomes highlighted when I do.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

my pc has a glitch right now where the cursor ACTUALLY goes invisible until I move it to the other monitor and back...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's hiding in the white space of documents! It's invisible!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It's on the TV that you use as a third monitor that is usually turned off

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I switched to a custom black cursor a few years ago (Posy's cursor mono block if anyone's curious) and it's so much easier to find. I also added the ping when I hit control, but that's less useful and a bit distracting in games.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can natively change the color and size of your courser in windows 10 and 11. No need for thirdparty tools.

Did that. Never looked back. I never lost my courser on a white background again.

Size: 2 or 3

Color: orange.

Impossible to miss.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, but the downside there is you've got a big orange cursor.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I use the windows built in large inverted color cursor. Easier to find and I like how it reacts to whatever color it's on currently

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

A coworker showed me how to add the comet tail.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

me everytime in bloonstg6 after round 40 or so

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've always appreciated the Mac OS feature that makes the cursor really huge if you wiggle it back and forth for this very reason...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Microsoft's Powertoys includes a feature where if you press Ctrl repeatedly your cursor becomes highlighted. Very handy!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

All 3 monitors slightly off brightness, exactly like my monitors regardless of how many times I fiddle with them!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

There's always xeyes of course.

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