for real though, the CTRL tap accessibility feature to find the cursor is a lifesaver
On KDE and on MacOS, if you shake the cursor it becomes larger
And larger…and larger…
No lying, wiggling my mouse until it becomes HUGE is my go to activity during boring video calls.
Only in KDE, and i think now we can limit that in settings
Who wants a limit to that? Gimme fullscreen-cursor and name him Harry.
Tim apple i suppose
Thats why i also have a thinkpad
I guess this confirms that I am a man, because I refuse to do anything except jiggle the mouse until I see it.
Am woman, learned today you can use CTRL to find it as I too wiggle it until I find it.
KDE: just wiggle it
I had a similar matrix of screens at my old job: Seismic survey observer desk. Three rows tall, four columns wide.
They weren’t all connected to the same PC, though; If I remember correctly:
- Top row was one PC (linux)
- Middle row was another (linux)
- Bottom left was its own PC (It ran msdos 6.22. Excellent OS for realtime stuff!)
- Bottom right was its own (linux)
- middle two at the bottom was windows.
They were all connected to a Raritan KVM switch, so I used that to select which row to control. The exception was on bottom left and bottom right which had a dedicated keyboard and mouse.
I have a picture of it somewhere, but I can’t seem to find it.
Bottom left was its own PC (It ran msdos 6.22. Excellent OS for realtime stuff!)
really? I used 6.22 back in the day - what’s it still being used for these days?
Not sure if it’s still in use today, but the above description was 2008 through 2012. Msdos was used for “gun timing”, which basically amounted to extreme precision when it came to opening or shutting some solenoid valves. The computer had a GPS input and a bunch of serial outputs, and a control line (also serial).
The control line sent instructions of which solenoid to open when, a time reference was determined by the GPS, and you can probably guess what the serial outputs were for.
you’d love synergy. it’s a client you install on multiple devices and allows you to share one keyboard and mouse across as many devices as you want.
you can even share the clipboard too.
Well aware of it. Used it between the top two rows.
i had a similar setup when i worked at a NOC.
thank god i never intended to have children. lol
The cursor is on Monitor 3 (there is no monitor 3 but Windows thinks there is)
KDE: 500000% size increase and then…
Loooove for KDE
You would never have guessed it, but this is my favourite feature :-)
right-click and see where a menu opens.
pastes into putty
am I doing it right?
I’m confused… Cursor? Surely you control everything via keyboard?
ditch the rat
(Shamelessly stolen from this very community.)
Where’s we are going: https://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/
KDE shaky shaky
What is this activity you call "looking for my cursor?
On my computer, I summon my cursor.
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That’s why you have eyes in the panel.
No, seriously: what are they for? They exist since X and at that time, displays were 800p max.
People have been losing their cursors since the Xerox labs days.
You’d need 3 sets to triangulate with in this setup.
I now undestand whom that KDE cursor is for?
There’s no way he ever looks at the top row.
this is why he can’t find his mouse.
And people rib me for having 3 screens. Yes yes, tell me how much cancer they are giving me per square second.
Cancer? From monitors? Is that a thing people believe? Do they think “the 5G comes from all them screens” ?
Literal doctors trying to convince me that monitors emit cancer causing radiation.
I had to explain to a doctor what ionizing radiation was… And that’s how I learned that doctors are just like every other profession. And there are just as many morons that graduated med school as morons that graduated high school (proportionately).
I’m guessing old CRTs. I’ve heard they can emit radiation if they aren’t lead lined.
Only cancer mine gave was from reading reddit or facebook
Wait what? They give cancer? Outgassing or something?
Outgassing
That would be me, sorry.
Just merging the conversations: https://lemmy.world/comment/22910631
Far dumber than you might have guessed. And this is not even close to the dumbest thing I’ve seen working healthcare IT.
I have recently pared down to 4 screens and yeah, people take seem to get great enjoyment out of giving me shit. I’ve been receiving this very meme image for a good while. Not sure what triggered the re-run of this one in particular.
surely just using the terminal?
