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[–] NBJack@reddthat.com 71 points 2 years 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.

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] otacon239@feddit.de 8 points 2 years 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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[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 49 points 2 years 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/

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 48 points 2 years ago

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

[–] chase_what_matters@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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

[–] odium@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago

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

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] pm_me_your_happiness@lemmy.one 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Or even easier: right click

[–] chase_what_matters@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Too dangerous.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I have accidentally deleted my operating system.

[–] Synctrex@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

KDE can do that as well

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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 years 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.

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years 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.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] DrM@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

It's a default windows setting

[–] Tylith@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years 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

[–] regular_human@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Big cursor gang

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years 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.

[–] Odiousmachine@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

I do this as well. Really helps when you share your screen and want to show where your cursor is.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The Ctrl key shows where the cursor is, easy.

[–] RupertMcClanahan@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you enable it in mouse settings

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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago
[–] CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years 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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[–] ef9357@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] dansity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 years 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

[–] Spudwart@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Keyboard Focused Tiling Window Manager Users: 🤷

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[–] IndefiniteBen@feddit.nl 12 points 2 years 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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[–] bappity@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Neato@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Deckname@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

And it's waiting to strike.

[–] CreeperODeath@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

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

[–] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 9 points 2 years 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.

[–] Player2@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years 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

[–] Sailing7@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years 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.

[–] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

A coworker showed me how to add the comet tail.

[–] istdaslol@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

me everytime in bloonstg6 after round 40 or so

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

There's always xeyes of course.

[–] Anonymousllama@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

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

[–] STUPIDVIPGUY@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

acreate

jus wiggle that shit

[–] istdaslol@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

ngl, best feature in macos

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