cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/21124885
surely just using the terminal?
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KDE: 500000% size increase and then....
The cursor is on Monitor 3 (there is no monitor 3 but Windows thinks there is)
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.
i had a similar setup when i worked at a NOC.
thank god i never intended to have children. lol
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.
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.
KDE shaky shaky
KDE: just wiggle it
wiggle it until it's the size of a monitor, and if you're brave, it'll take over EVERYTHING.
I love it that KDE didn't limit the growing of it :)
Oh, it's limited. But you will only discover it if you look at the bug-tracker.
Fooled us all. That's a tanning booth.
It would be funny af if there was a way to make the computer think the screen size was infinite (just for the mouse) so you could send your cursor 20 miles away and never find it again.
That's only funny if it's not YOUR computer 😁
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.
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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.
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Ow my neck
Windows are too big. The whole point is to have small windows and multiple screens so you don't have to move your eyes around in their sockets in the window you're working which causes eyestrain.
They might have well just have fewer screens and click through windows.
I struggle with my neck and 3 screens. I've gotten really good at doing a bunch of shit at once on one screen so my neck doesn't hurt as much lol
Where the fuck is the image? Not loading for me
Check monitor number 8, it may have opened there.
Loads fine for me. It's someone sitting in front of a desk with 15 large monitors surrounding them in a semicircle, 3 monitors stacked on top of one another in 5 columns.
I now undestand whom that KDE cursor is for?
right-click and see where a menu opens.
pastes into putty
am I doing it right?
Go to mouse l settings, make your cursor larger and change the contrast. So when the curse is black and it goes over something white and then white when it goes over black
What is this activity you call "looking for my cursor?
On my computer, I summon my cursor.
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There's no way he ever looks at the top row.
this is why he can't find his mouse.
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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.
Wait what? They give cancer? Outgassing or something?
Outgassing
That would be me, sorry.
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