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2y ago

An all too common occurrence

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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.
- 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
  
  Oh you mean the mini game has a practical purpose too?
- 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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- One of us needs a review on relativistic physics (but it's probably me). Shouldn't the cursor experience less time than you?

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/
- In my culture we invoke the ancient rune drawing of a bunch of really fast circles with the mouse.
- For Apple people, there’s a setting in Mac OS to make the cursor giant if you shake it.
  
  For Linux people, it depends on your distro/DE/WM
  
  Actually I'm pretty sure that's enabled by default now
  
  Yep. It’s enabled by default, actually
- Or even easier: right click
  
  Too dangerous.
  
  I have accidentally deleted my operating system.
- KDE can do that as well
- And make it bright yellow while you're messing with the settings.

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.
- I enabled the feature that shows you where the cursor is with a big circle when you press Ctrl. Works like a charm.
  
  Powertoys!
- This was driving me crazy so I made the cursor big and inverted colors, no problems finding it now.
  
  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
- Big cursor gang
- How much time are you people losing to this? It takes me less than a second to find my cursor again.
  
  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.
- I do this as well. Really helps when you share your screen and want to show where your cursor is.

The Ctrl key shows where the cursor is, easy.
- If you enable it in mouse settings
  
  Recommended
- TIL

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.
- Also helps if you make it a bright green or yellow to make it stand out.

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

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

Keyboard Focused Tiling Window Manager Users: 🤷
- Yeah, this is me. With unclutter installed to hide the cursor anyway. My cursor just follows the middle of whatever window I have focused at the time in i3wm

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.
- Saving this to come back to it. Seems very handy
  
  PowerToys is awesome
- Didn't know about this Powertoys feature, neat - think Windows actually has a built-in option you can toggle where if you hold down shift (or possibly ctrl? Haven't had cause to use it for ages) it'll highlight the cursor with a bright circle.
  
  Isn't that a Windows 11 thing?

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

The only serious solution.
https://www.commandlinux.com/man-page/man1/xeyes.1.html
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Xeyes.png
- Apple’s shake to find is plenty effective.
  
  Maybe, but it's not serious enough.
  https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Xeyes.png
- Too bad this becomes less effective as time goes on, this wont affect wyaland windows, only xwayland/X

A coworker showed me how to add the comet tail.

It's hiding in the white space of documents! It's invisible!
- And it's waiting to strike.

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

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

me everytime in bloonstg6 after round 40 or so
- Bloons TD6 aka The Mysterious Case of the Missing Cursor
- When are they gonna allow us to change the cursor to glow or something, it would be soo helpful, especially with fleets of airplanes in the sky

I've always appreciated the Mac OS feature that makes the cursor really huge if you wiggle it back and forth for this very reason...
- Microsoft's Powertoys includes a feature where if you press Ctrl repeatedly your cursor becomes highlighted. Very handy!

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

https://i.gifer.com/7LQb.gif

There's always xeyes of course.

acreate
jus wiggle that shit
- ngl, best feature in macos
  
  Yes! I remember when they first introduced it and I had to make sure I wasn't hallucinating that the cursor was blowing up.

that's why I use dual monitor tools. I click the home key ony keyboard and the cursor is right in the middle of my main monitor
- I just use the built in windows feature that lets me hit ctrl and it puts a big shrinking circle on my cursor for a couple seconds.
  
  I hate this because whenever I’m copying and pasting shit, I get stupid circles on my screen
  
  I use that AND the mouse trails thing. No end of people laughing at me about the mouse trails but hey, I rarely lose sight of my cursor.

There is a setting on Windows that lets you press a button (Ctrl by default) that will circle your mouse and get closer to door where your mouse is.

Does nobody just increase their cursor size…? 😂

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