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.
"Time for my favourite game, is there a limit?
–several hours later –
if there is I couldn’t find it but check out my frame rate now"
Ahh another sophisticated LetsGameItOut enjoyer. Right on. :D
“Got it, got it, goooot it…” (DrKonqi coredump) “Perfect!” (Fanfare)
It has replaced idly making selection squares on the desktop.
I hope it’s never changed, absolutely fabulous
I love this feature so much.
My kids love making the cursor fill the screen.
Feature moment
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.
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.
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.
Ha I also noticed this in the last week and assumed it was a feature, not a bug
It’s not big enough until the window manager crashes
I do this for fun while waiting for things to load
No, I don’t think it is an easter egg. Probably just a missing check in code that needed to be done.
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=0Where do you set this option?
By default on recent KDE but search shake mouse in desktop settings
Those two lines normally go into a config file somewhere. That’s what I want to know
Ai says it goes in
~/.config/kwinrc
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.
An interesting side effect for mouse jiggler attacks
The cursor used to appear pixelated at high magnifications until they switched to it a vector to fix it, so definitely intentional
