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.
It has replaced idly making selection squares on the desktop.
Note: Only on Plasma 6.0 (edit: and up)
Nope, still functional as of Plasma 6.2.3 :)
I thought they meant “Not if you are still on Plasma 5” but maybe I misinterpreted it.
Correct. 6.0 is when it was introduced.
I keep trying it on 5 and then remembering and being sad.Ah sorry, I thought you meant that it was a bug introduced in 6.0 that was fixed or something
No worries. Updated for clarity.
I love this feature so much.
This might get me to try KDE lol. I’ve used this feature on my Mac for years just when I get bored in meetings and I’ve always wanted it to grow to that size.
i hope someone working on KDE sees this and says “well this is unacceptable. we have to figure out why this is causing so much frame lag” and the ability to enhugen your cursor remains forever.
Ha I also noticed this in the last week and assumed it was a feature, not a bug
No, I don’t think it is an easter egg. Probably just a missing check in code that needed to be done.
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.
Managed to get it to fill a whole 1200x1920 (not a typo, screen is sideways) screen without shrinking once. It is always fun to do.
My kids love making the cursor fill the screen.
Feature moment
Feels like a feature. The first time I tested this feature it was first: not dynamically textured, meaning that a small 32x32 pixel imagine got 256x256 or smth. And the size was limited.
Now its actually rendered like a vector graphics and funnily enough, its shaking never stops increasing the size. I love when fun is allowed on your desktop
thanks. I was trying to find this out but I’d constantly slip up and let it shrink.
Thank you for doing the science for us. That was entertaining
The cursor used to appear pixelated at high magnifications until they switched to it a vector to fix it, so definitely intentional
You just have to turn it off. It’s an accessibility feature if you don’t want it:
Nope, thats a different topic.
I’ve made it span my 2 monitors. It’s funny. Best feature yet.
