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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.

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[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 minutes ago

Nope, still functional as of Plasma 6.2.3 :)

[–] tyler@programming.dev 4 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] ProtonBadger@lemmy.ca 27 points 7 hours ago

It has replaced idly making selection squares on the desktop.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 42 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

"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"

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 12 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Ahh another sophisticated LetsGameItOut enjoyer. Right on. :D

"Got it, got it, goooot it..." (DrKonqi coredump) "Perfect!" (Fanfare)

[–] jdadam@lemm.ee 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

My kids love making the cursor fill the screen.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

Feature moment

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 30 points 11 hours ago

I hope it’s never changed, absolutely fabulous

[–] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 26 points 11 hours ago

I love this feature so much.

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 10 points 11 hours ago

Ha I also noticed this in the last week and assumed it was a feature, not a bug

[–] je_skirata@lemmy.today 7 points 11 hours ago

I do this for fun while waiting for things to load

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago

Thank you for doing the science for us. That was entertaining

[–] asudox@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

No, I don't think it is an easter egg. Probably just a missing check in code that needed to be done.

[–] TimeWalker@lemmy.foxden.party 24 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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=0
[–] penquin@lemm.ee 5 points 9 hours ago

Where do you set this option?

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 9 points 11 hours ago

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.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 hours ago

thanks. I was trying to find this out but I'd constantly slip up and let it shrink.

[–] variants@possumpat.io 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That's my wife's default cursor size

[–] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 hours ago

so your wife likes bbc (big black cursor)