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Dave

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A middle-aged nerd.

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1 year ago • •

Dave

1 year ago • •


I love #Fedora #Linux, but by far my favourite thing about it is that you can waggle your mouse to make the mouse pointer bigger (for accessibility).

That's cool, but what's even cooler is that it doesn't seem to have a maximum size... It just keeps getting bigger, the more you waggle.

#linux #fedora
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in reply to Dave • 1 year ago • •
... that's a fun thing, but presumably someone could add code to stop the pointer exceeding, say, 60% of the total screen size, that would seem more than adequate...
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in reply to Andy Piper • 1 year ago • •
(yes, yes, I am here to spoil the fun)
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in reply to Andy Piper • 1 year ago • •
@andypiper Then what would I do to escape from the endless existential angst??
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in reply to Dave • 1 year ago • •
MacOS has the waggle thing, too, but now I'm very disappointed the cursor doesn't just keep growing... 😂
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in reply to JWcph, Radicalized By Decency • 1 year ago • •

@jwcph Another example of open source innovation then!

When you don't have to keep shareholders happy, there are no limits to the size of mouse pointer you can enjoy!

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in reply to Dave • 1 year ago • •
@jwcph Love it, as if to be like “you fuckin stupid? ITS RIGHT HERE”
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in reply to Harry • 1 year ago • •
@harrybo @jwcph You see, I didn't take it like that... I interpreted it more as Linux saying: "Welcome to enlightenment, friend. Now keep waggling, to the stars and beyond!"
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in reply to Dave • 1 year ago • •
i use KDE on Debian and this is probably the best feature
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in reply to crispycat • 1 year ago • •
@crispycat *This* is how Linux finally wins the desktop!
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in reply to Dave • 1 year ago • •

I always hate crediting Apple, but on this occasion Mac got there first and somebody just replicated it for KDE, I think fairly recently. But the growth... Oh wow I've never seen that happen before! 😆

Oh I hope that's never fixed.

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in reply to Dave • 1 year ago • •
Excellent! I found a Gnome extension to do this : Wiggle.
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in reply to Yar0d • 1 year ago • •
@yar0d Amazing! Does it have unlimited growth?
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in reply to Dave • 1 year ago • •
No. There is a parameter to set the maximum size.
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in reply to Dave • 1 year ago • •
Actually it's a KDE feature. 😊
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in reply to vikkelä • 1 year ago • •
@qwc Then the geniuses at KDE deserve the Nobel Prize!
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in reply to Dave • 1 year ago • •
1) as pointed out by others, it's a #KDE Plasma feature.
2) the fact that it seems to grow perpetually on wiggling is a bug IIRC, and might be "fixed" in a newer version of Plasma.
#kde
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in reply to Magitian • 1 year ago • •
@magitian I feel like I should delete this post so that they never find out about it... ;)
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