People downvoting because now they have to customize their cursor and never considered it before lol
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The one with the blinking white block. Except when I'm in insert mode of vim then blinking white line
I was looking for the obligatory 'I use a tiling WM btw' comment but it seems that everyone is touching grass here
Genuine question why do people do that? What workflow is it better for? I'm sure past a certain learning curve it's good for stuff
Shortcuts and organization:
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i can instantly jump to exactly the window i want with a single shortcut
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Everything is open maximized by default which, like, why shouldn't it be?
some people are more comfortable doing all of their computer actions from the keyboard without reaching for the mouse. tiling WMs tend to make that easier to do at the cost of requiring some learning
I guess I'm satisfied with keyboard shortcuts and Emacs as my super two-handed keyboard weapon. When I have mouse fully disabled there's always annoying moments where I'm like holding my phone or a drink etc in the left. Can definitely see that though
I use Posy's
Eyyyy there are dozens of us! I used to manage IT for a school trust - about 2000 endpoints - and I actually pushed it out to every single one of them. They're more pleasing to my eye, they scale perfectly and are easier to track. I got compliments from art teachers and SEND workers which is about as high a praise as you can imagine.
No mention of Capitaine-cursors so there 👈
Default.
Brood war cursor best https://store.kde.org/p/1680392/
They're great but too small. I wish the size was increasable.
They look great but I fear i'll never find them
Vimix
Catppuccin Mocha Pink
Oxygen light
Oxygen green
On windows 11 you can turn your regular cursor various colors, including green and pink, and I wish KDE could do that. I could edit cursor vectors myself, but I don't wanna. Too lazy. I like colorful cursors because they're easier to find and track, but I don't want those big bloated cutesy cursors.
page through these.. you should find a few different cursor themes that would work for you:
Some round one, I forget the name. I love it.
Fuck Shit Cunt --
Edit oh whoops cursors oops
Why hasn't that been invented yet? Cursors that curse at you when you click.
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For about a week, I had my coworker's face as my cursor. Just because I could. I wanted to see how long it would take people to notice. I share my screen a lot. I was surprised it took that long.
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Not yet mentioned:
Polar cursors - long time classic. The download seems to have a wrong extension, correct is .tar.bz2.
I also just noticed Oreo cursors - not sure if I like them yet:
Loving just the stock KDE Breeze theme
Polarnight:
Looks pretty; I might try that one out myself.
I'm actually on Windows (please don't murder me), but I use KDE's Oxygen cursors, and have for about 12 years.
posey is epik
https://github.com/supermariofps/hatsune-miku-linux-cursors/
When my laptop is in presentation mode, I use this instead:
I'd love to implement my own cursor so I have things like cursor trail, but it's a lot harder than I thought. Something about hardware cursor.
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catppucin machiato blue
Yep, I'm a catppucin Machiato user too. I must say the whole theme is quite nice.
default breeze, the black one
EDIT : Downloaded a win 3.1 dark version just for the hell of it , since you prompted me https://store.kde.org/p/999998
Quite fond of it. To the point where I kind of have to use these cursors on any PC I seriously use. Ordinary cursors just look out of place. At the very least, I always want tailless cursors. Seeing a tail on my cursor just feels old-fashioned, vestigial, and cringe to me.
I use the same and for the same reason of wanting it to be tailless.
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Bibata Original Ice at day & Bibata Original Classic at Night
Call me weird, but the cursors are just about the only visual element of my desktop that I don't customize. Boring default X cursors all the way!
banana cursor ftw. banana cursor github page
Do they actually look like stickers in use, or is that just the presentation on the GitHub page?
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