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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 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

MacOS does this, but on screen recording it never shows it. Feels good to see Linux records what user actually saw

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Having a size cap does not make much sense since the increased pointer size is triggered intentionally, meaning if someone keeps shaking the pointer, they must want it bigger (whether for amusement or because they're hella blind).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days 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.