- NBJack ( @NBJack@reddthat.com ) 47•1 year ago
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 ( @BorgDrone@lemmy.one ) 8•1 year ago
On macOS if you wiggle the mouse quickly the cursor gets bigger.
- otacon239 ( @otacon239@feddit.de ) 6•1 year ago
I’m about to change (and possibly ruin) your perspective on mouse cursors in Windows: https://youtu.be/YThelfB2fvg?si=JvS-iAQ4-tJ1w60Q
- Default_Defect ( @Default_Defect@midwest.social ) English3•1 year ago
YES, I’m using one of the ones they made right now.
- a253040 ( @a253040@midwest.social ) English2•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?
- Corroded ( @CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ) English28•1 year ago
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 ( @WarmSoda@lemm.ee ) 32•1 year ago
In my culture we invoke the ancient rune drawing of a bunch of really fast circles with the mouse.
Or even easier: right click
- Shadow ( @Shadow@lemmy.ca ) 21•1 year ago
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.
- Rodeo ( @Rodeo@lemmy.ca ) 4•1 year ago
How much time are you people losing to this? It takes me less than a second to find my cursor again.
- Shadow ( @Shadow@lemmy.ca ) 4•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 ( @Odiousmachine@feddit.de ) 3•1 year ago
I do this as well. Really helps when you share your screen and want to show where your cursor is.
- Zerush ( @Zerush@lemmy.ml ) 21•1 year ago
The Ctrl key shows where the cursor is, easy.
- RupertMcClanahan ( @RupertMcClanahan@lemm.ee ) 7•1 year ago
If you enable it in mouse settings
- Zerush ( @Zerush@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
Recommended
- Dagwood222 ( @Dagwood222@lemm.ee ) 3•1 year ago
TIL
- ef9357 ( @ef9357@lemmy.sdf.org ) 14•1 year ago
And now you know why it’s called a curser.
- CrowAirbrush ( @CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee ) 13•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.
- frezik ( @frezik@midwest.social ) 1•1 year ago
Also helps if you make it a bright green or yellow to make it stand out.
- IndefiniteBen ( @IndefiniteBen@feddit.nl ) 12•1 year ago
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.
- Corr ( @Corr@lemm.ee ) 1•1 year ago
Saving this to come back to it. Seems very handy
- Trainguyrom ( @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ) English3•1 year ago
PowerToys is awesome
- Pyrrhichios ( @Pyrrhichios@feddit.uk ) 1•1 year ago
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.
- IndefiniteBen ( @IndefiniteBen@feddit.nl ) 1•1 year ago
Isn’t that a Windows 11 thing?
- Pyrrhichios ( @Pyrrhichios@feddit.uk ) 2•1 year ago
Nah, it’s definitely available in 10 - used to use it a lot on my dual monitor setup at work and that’s still not upgraded to 11. Fell out of the habit of dual monitoring during the pandemic so it hasn’t really been necessary since…
- my_hat_stinks ( @my_hat_stinks@programming.dev ) 8•1 year ago
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 ( @Player2@sopuli.xyz ) 5•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
- Sailing7 ( @Sailing7@lemmy.ml ) 5•1 year ago
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 ( @my_hat_stinks@programming.dev ) 5•1 year ago
Sure, but the downside there is you’ve got a big orange cursor.
- Sailing7 ( @Sailing7@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
I dont see a downside here. Orange is beautiful. :3
- Neato ( @Neato@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
It’s hiding in the white space of documents! It’s invisible!
- Deckname ( @Deckname@discuss.tchncs.de ) 2•1 year ago
And it’s waiting to strike.
- Dagwood222 ( @Dagwood222@lemm.ee ) 7•1 year ago
A coworker showed me how to add the comet tail.
- istdaslol ( @istdaslol@feddit.de ) 6•1 year ago
me everytime in bloonstg6 after round 40 or so
Bloons TD6 aka The Mysterious Case of the Missing Cursor
- Uvine_Umarylis ( @Uvine_Umbra@partizle.com ) 2•1 year ago
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
- letsgo ( @letsgo@lemm.ee ) 6•1 year ago
There’s always xeyes of course.
- Zerush ( @Zerush@lemmy.ml ) 5•1 year ago
- STUPIDVIPGUY ( @STUPIDVIPGUY@sopuli.xyz ) 3•1 year ago
acreate
jus wiggle that shit
- istdaslol ( @istdaslol@feddit.de ) 4•1 year ago
ngl, best feature in macos
- rob64 ( @rob64@startrek.website ) 1•1 year ago
Yes! I remember when they first introduced it and I had to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating that the cursor was blowing up.
- milkytoast ( @milkytoast@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
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
- Unaware7013 ( @Unaware7013@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
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.
- Taztrophe ( @Taztrophe@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
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.