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[–] NBJack@reddthat.com 64 points 1 year 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 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

Windows lets you optionally use CTrL to highlight the cursor for a moment

[–] otacon239@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

YES, I'm using one of the ones they made right now.

[–] a253040@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

One of us needs a review on relativistic physics (but it's probably me). Shouldn't the cursor experience less time than you?

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 42 points 1 year 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 43 points 1 year 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 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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

[–] odium@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] sjmarf@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Yep. It’s enabled by default, actually

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] pm_me_your_happiness@lemmy.one 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or even easier: right click

[–] chase_what_matters@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Too dangerous.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I have accidentally deleted my operating system.

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Ctrl key shows where the cursor is, easy.

[–] RupertMcClanahan@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you enable it in mouse settings

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago (3 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 14 points 1 year 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 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DrM@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

It's a default windows setting

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[–] ef9357@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Spudwart@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Keyboard Focused Tiling Window Manager Users: 🤷

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[–] bappity@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] IndefiniteBen@feddit.nl 9 points 1 year 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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[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
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[–] CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] dansity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year 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

[–] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 8 points 1 year 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.

[–] Sailing7@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sailing7@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I dont see a downside here. Orange is beautiful. :3

[–] Player2@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year 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

[–] Neato@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

A coworker showed me how to add the comet tail.

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

me everytime in bloonstg6 after round 40 or so

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Bloons TD6 aka The Mysterious Case of the Missing Cursor

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[–] CreeperODeath@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] STUPIDVIPGUY@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

acreate

jus wiggle that shit

[–] istdaslol@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ngl, best feature in macos

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[–] Anonymousllama@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

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