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.
In my early edgy metal phase I used the Sign of the horns as a custom cursor.
Fun fact, in Germany this hand sign is often called Pommesgabel (fries fork)
I was stationed in [the former West] Germany from 1985-1988. Upon arrival we had a week-long quickstart intro to German culture. One of the lessons taught was srsly, don't pick up your fries with your fingers!!! I forgot about that until reading your comment. :-)
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.
That's interesting, i guess i'm the old fashioned type then cause i'm the reverse of that. Cursors without a tail always look off to me. It's why i never liked things like bibata eventhough it seems to be pretty popular.
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.
After downloading tons of them, and trying them out on various computers over a range of screen sizes and resolutions, and also considering what fits with the vibe of my theming, I have ended up with Breeze. Pretty basic, but I love it. I have to use Windows at work, and got Breeze on there as well.
Same. For whatever reason, I kind of hate all cursor themes. I disliked Breeze the least, then thought about how I'd want to change Breeze to improve it, realized that would look much worse, and since then I've been content with Breeze.
Phinger Cursors, was using Capitaine Cursors before that but i didn't like that the pre-built binaries were hosted on pling, or atleast i couldn't figure out how to get the actual download url from there for the sake of packaging, and building from source takes so long, so i ended up looking for something that had pre-builts hosted elsewhere.
Might have to look into that! As i was looking up capitaine again i found out that there's a fork with some cool colorschemes like gruvbox, which i really like the look of as well.
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
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.
I still have PTSD related flashbacks to working at geek squad when the stupid fucking dinosaur cursors (absolutely chockablock with viruses) were all the rage... I use the default one build into KDE.
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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.
In my early edgy metal phase I used the Sign of the horns as a custom cursor.
Fun fact, in Germany this hand sign is often called Pommesgabel (fries fork)
I was stationed in [the former West] Germany from 1985-1988. Upon arrival we had a week-long quickstart intro to German culture. One of the lessons taught was srsly, don't pick up your fries with your fingers!!! I forgot about that until reading your comment. :-)
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.
Oh, thats so cute. Got a kasane teto one?
This is the one I use:
https://store.kde.org/p/2116993
I use this one:
https://ani.social/post/15074947
These are also pretty cool but I prefer the one with the chibis
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
Volantes.
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.
That's interesting, i guess i'm the old fashioned type then cause i'm the reverse of that. Cursors without a tail always look off to me. It's why i never liked things like bibata eventhough it seems to be pretty popular.
That actually looks okay
I use the same and for the same reason of wanting it to be tailless.
Fuck Shit Cunt --
Edit oh whoops cursors oops
Why hasn't that been invented yet? Cursors that curse at you when you click.
https://github.com/nim65s/gruppled-lite-cursors
How do you know when you have a coloured orb vs there being colour under the cursor?
People downvoting because now they have to customize their cursor and never considered it before lol
I really like Mocu.
Sweet cursor
https://store.kde.org/p/1393084/
This one does not spark joy for me
Loving just the stock KDE Breeze theme
I like posy-cursors
His video convinced me
Polarnight:
Looks pretty; I might try that one out myself.
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
This fucks!!
I've been using the Pacman cursor for a couple years.
Do they actually look like stickers in use, or is that just the presentation on the GitHub page?
They look the same
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
Same, this or the Breeze Snow cursor, depending on my overall theme at the moment.
I'm actually on Windows (please don't murder me), but I use KDE's Oxygen cursors, and have for about 12 years.
I use Posy's
https://michieldb.nl/other/cursors/
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.
Haha I love that! They really are much more pleasing to the eyes and I love his video on it.
After downloading tons of them, and trying them out on various computers over a range of screen sizes and resolutions, and also considering what fits with the vibe of my theming, I have ended up with Breeze. Pretty basic, but I love it. I have to use Windows at work, and got Breeze on there as well.
Same. For whatever reason, I kind of hate all cursor themes. I disliked Breeze the least, then thought about how I'd want to change Breeze to improve it, realized that would look much worse, and since then I've been content with Breeze.
Phinger Cursors, was using Capitaine Cursors before that but i didn't like that the pre-built binaries were hosted on pling, or atleast i couldn't figure out how to get the actual download url from there for the sake of packaging, and building from source takes so long, so i ended up looking for something that had pre-builts hosted elsewhere.
I love how over-engineered phinger is
using capitaine here, from store.kde.org, which does have archive downloads available.
Might have to look into that! As i was looking up capitaine again i found out that there's a fork with some cool colorschemes like gruvbox, which i really like the look of as well.
Default.
I use PearDarkCursors
Elementary os cursor
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
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
Shortcuts and organization:
i can instantly jump to exactly the window i want with a single shortcut
Everything is open maximized by default which, like, why shouldn't it be?
Hmm maybe it's like switching to KISS Launcher instead of Android home screen, but more so. Worth the setup in that case
Vimix White
preview
github
Bibata Original Ice at day & Bibata Original Classic at Night
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:
https://store.kde.org/browse?cat=107&ord=latest
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:
Standard breeze, but I use light cursors on a dark background. I think that makes more sense.
https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1249129/
Buuf cursor, it fits with Buuf icons.
https://ani.social/post/15074947
Red alert 3 cursors
https://www.rw-designer.com/cursor-set/red-alert-3
https://github.com/luka-hash/plan9cursors
I use Beat Cursor Pack by HeroOfYore https://github.com/HeroOfYore/Yore-Cursorpacks/releases/tag/v1.1.0-beat
Since I deleted reddit, can't seem to find the post where someone shared adult themed cursors
Aything from yeyushengfan258
Like Afterglow (Photo) or Twilight
Rosé Pine Dawn Cursor https://github.com/rose-pine/cursor
Neutral for both Left and Right Handed https://store.kde.org/p/999823
Qogir
catppucin machiato blue
Gif
Yep, I'm a catppucin Machiato user too. I must say the whole theme is quite nice.
Catppuccin Mocha Pink
Oxygen light
I love how sharp adwaita's is
Moblin
https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1457141
posey is epik
I still have PTSD related flashbacks to working at geek squad when the stupid fucking dinosaur cursors (absolutely chockablock with viruses) were all the rage... I use the default one build into KDE.
Oxygen green
No mention of Capitaine-cursors so there 👈
Breeze hacked. Trying to convert my dragon scimmy collection into something usable on Linux tho
catppuccin mocha dark https://github.com/catppuccin/cursors
Some round one, I forget the name. I love it.