Bug 448634

Summary:	Add "Shake to locate cursor" feature to window effects
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Paul Hands <jphands>
Component:	effects-various	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	MurzNN, nate, ngompa13
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Paul Hands 2022-01-16 23:40:52 UTC

SUMMARY
Add Mac OS X-like shake to locate the mouse cursor effect to kwin.


This is a feature request, not a bug.

I use three 4k monitors on a KDE Plasma 5.23.5 desktop on SuSE Tumbleweed, and it's often hard to see where the cursor is, especially in a Konsole window.  It would be great to have a feature which temporarily magnifies the cursor when the mouse is shaken vigorously, such as on Mac OS X, or the "Jiggle" Gnome extension.  I've tried various cursor themes, but still lose the cursor quite often.

Comment 1 Murz 2023-02-02 06:41:09 UTC

Yeah, I very much miss the "Shake to Find Cursor" action in KDE, like in Mac OS, that increases the size of the mouse cursor to make it easy to find it, too!

And the "Track Mouse" KDE Plasma effect is not a good alternative, because it requires clicking a keyboard key to act, and can't be activated just via shaking the mouse.

But I've found a similar solution for GNOME https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3438/jiggle/ - maybe we can reuse something from it to implement the same on KDE side?

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2023-04-26 17:17:44 UTC

*** Bug 468968 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2023-11-27 15:42:49 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 432927 ***