shakes mouse in KDE until the cursor fills the entire screen
Le KDE plasma when you shake the mouse pointer:
Le KDE Track Mouse feature:
B I G G E R
KDE’s great, but cursor finding stuff isn’t a Linux specific selling point.
Windows has had an option to highlight your mouse when pressing Ctrl since at least Windows XP, possibly as far back as 98. It’s an option through the old control panel all the way through 10, and I believe 11 as well (but I use the powertoys version on 11, it looks better than the built in one).
Pretty sure Mac has/had the “wiggle to make the cursor big” thing for a while too.
I have re-read OP several times, and I missed the part where a specific feature for a specific DE was touted as a “Linux specific selling point”
Windows has the wiggle to make the cursor big feature if you use PowerToys, a Microsoft-created utility pack
In Windows you can activate that a bunch of moving circles help you find the cursor when you press ctrl.
KDE cursor shake is enabled by default. And an easy to find checkbox in the settings.
I don’t think most Windows 10 or 11 users look through the old control panel anymore. I have honestly never seen anyone enable the ctrl cursor highlight before, but the cursor shake is enabled on most KDE systems I interact with.
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So long as your wireless mouse doesn’t need to wake up and the 2 second lag in waking, connecting, and moving is just enough time for you to look at the wrong monitor and wonder.
. . . Dangit
logitech master mx to the rescue
You only use two monitors? Also plasma fixes this. Sometimes I just shake my mouse to make the cursor massive for giggles
One of the first settings I change on any new system is to make the cursor green. Seems to help enormously with this.
