Yeah, and this only gets worse with bigger monitors. Want to use that 43" TV as Monitor #3? Wigglin’ isn’t going to help.
Real users give up and start using keyboard shortcuts to move crap around until they find it again.
Or just get a wireless gaming mouse with adjustable DPI, crank it up to 11 billion, and try to catch it doing near lightspeed as it goes through all four monitors at once. The only drawback is that, according to physics, it will likely have experienced time dilation, which means your mouse cursor has aged significantly in the short time it was in flight.
On macOS if you wiggle the mouse quickly the cursor gets bigger.
Windows lets you optionally use CTrL to highlight the cursor for a moment
Oh you mean the mini game has a practical purpose too?
One of us needs a review on relativistic physics (but it’s probably me). Shouldn’t the cursor experience less time than you?
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Yeah it seems broken today
YES, I’m using one of the ones they made right now.
I just wiggle my mouse like an idiot until the cursor hits my vision, because you know…i’m in control of the input device.
Also helps if you make it a bright green or yellow to make it stand out.
The Ctrl key shows where the cursor is, easy.
If you enable it in mouse settings
Recommended
I have it enabled as much as possible, also helps for recording how to videos, especially when not recording instructions.
TIL
And now you know why it’s called a curser.
I use powertoys and have the mouse highlighting tool enable when I shake the cursor back and forth.
Before this tool I also moved it around so I could see it, now it becomes highlighted when I do.
Saving this to come back to it. Seems very handy
PowerToys is awesome
Didn’t know about this Powertoys feature, neat - think Windows actually has a built-in option you can toggle where if you hold down shift (or possibly ctrl? Haven’t had cause to use it for ages) it’ll highlight the cursor with a bright circle.
Isn’t that a Windows 11 thing?
Nah, it’s definitely available in 10 - used to use it a lot on my dual monitor setup at work and that’s still not upgraded to 11. Fell out of the habit of dual monitoring during the pandemic so it hasn’t really been necessary since…
In Windows you can add a pulse effect to the mouse that’s triggered by pressing Control. It’s under the visibility settings.
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-add-a-highlighter-to-your-mouse-pointer-in-windows-10/
In my culture we invoke the ancient rune drawing of a bunch of really fast circles with the mouse.
Or even easier: right click
My coworkers make fun of me when I share my zoom screen and my cursor is big and bright green. I never lose my mouse cursor though.
How much time are you people losing to this? It takes me less than a second to find my cursor again.
I have 3 high res monitors and the middle is an ultra wide, so there’s quite a bit of area to scan for what is normally a tiny cursor.
I’ve always appreciated the Mac OS feature that makes the cursor really huge if you wiggle it back and forth for this very reason…
Microsoft’s Powertoys includes a feature where if you press Ctrl repeatedly your cursor becomes highlighted. Very handy!
There’s always xeyes of course.
A coworker showed me how to add the comet tail.
I switched to a custom black cursor a few years ago (Posy’s cursor mono block if anyone’s curious) and it’s so much easier to find. I also added the ping when I hit control, but that’s less useful and a bit distracting in games.
I use the windows built in large inverted color cursor. Easier to find and I like how it reacts to whatever color it’s on currently
You can natively change the color and size of your courser in windows 10 and 11. No need for thirdparty tools.
Did that. Never looked back. I never lost my courser on a white background again.
Size: 2 or 3
Color: orange.
Impossible to miss.
Sure, but the downside there is you’ve got a big orange cursor.
I dont see a downside here. Orange is beautiful. :3
Does nobody just increase their cursor size…? 😂
It’s hiding in the white space of documents! It’s invisible!
And it’s waiting to strike.