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There doesn't appear to be a limit to the maximum size the KDE cursor can get when you shake it. (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by moonpiedumplings@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev
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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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[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why would shaking the cursor make it bigger in the first place? Is this an accessibility feature to find the cursor?

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, and Windows and OS X both do it as well.

Though there being no upper limit to the size is amusing.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can't tell if lazy programming or just figuring it will fix itself. In theory there would be a point of overflow maybe? Well, I guess that also fixes itself.

[–] TimeWalker@lemmy.foxden.party 11 points 1 day 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
[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I assume the KDE implementation resizes to default when you stop shaking it.

I could totally see someone coding a function that increases the mouse pointer by x% every y mouse shakes, and then neglecting to put in a size cap.

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I could totally see someone coding a function that increases the mouse pointer by x% every y mouse shakes, and then neglecting to put in a size cap.

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.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

Yes, it resets once motion is stopped. It's one of those things where without comments in the code or something you could also assume forgetting to check one of the bounds just happened to work fine.

[–] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Yes. It was enhanced and enabled by default in KDE6