Bug 127362

Summary:	the "beeper" feature for the mouse cursor
Product:	[Unmaintained] kcontrol	Reporter:	Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins>
Component:	kcmaccessibility	Assignee:	Gunnar Schmidt <gunnar>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	angel_blue_co2004, h.klene, kdebugs.20.chth
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Maciej Pilichowski 2006-05-15 14:25:30 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.2)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

I imagine such feature (triggered by defined by the user shortcut) as showing the mouse cursor 5x zoomed, 5x zoomed inversed colors, 4x zoom, 4x zoomed inversed, ...., 1 x zoom, 1 x zoom inversed. And several (configurable; max. zoom factor also) times again.

Or much more cooler effects would be great, like in games, when the colorful cirle is spinning around. I would appreciate anything -- it often happens to me, when working in the sun I am loosing the track of the mouse cursor and it takes time to find it :-)

Comment 1 Stephan Kulow 2006-05-17 11:57:25 UTC

*** Bug 127412 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Angel Blue01 2009-03-14 17:17:26 UTC

KDE4 has the little stars that appear if you turn on desktop effects and enable the track mouse effect and press Ctrl + meta but this sounds like a better idea.

Comment 3 Holger 2016-07-26 23:25:07 UTC

There is an option under visual effects to highlight the current mouseposition (default shortcut Ctrl+Alt) ... I think this bug is obsolete now.

Comment 4 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-04 18:05:22 UTC

Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this project has been unmaintained for many years so I am closing this bug. Kcontrol has been replaced by System Settings in Plasma. Please give the latest version of that a try, and open a new bug in "systemsettings" if you continue to have an issue. Thank you!