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
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.
that’s what she said!
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.
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.
i had a similar setup when i worked at a NOC.
thank god i never intended to have children. lol
The cursor is on Monitor 3 (there is no monitor 3 but Windows thinks there is)
I’m confused… Cursor? Surely you control everything via keyboard?
ditch the rat
(Shamelessly stolen from this very community.)
right-click and see where a menu opens.
pastes into putty
am I doing it right?
Where’s we are going: https://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/
KDE shaky shaky
What is this activity you call "looking for my cursor?
On my computer, I summon my cursor.
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Fooled us all. That’s a tanning booth.
I now undestand whom that KDE cursor is for?
That’s why you have eyes in the panel.
You’d need 3 sets to triangulate with in this setup.
No, seriously: what are they for? They exist since X and at that time, displays were 800p max.
People have been losing their cursors since the Xerox labs days.
There’s no way he ever looks at the top row.
this is why he can’t find his mouse.
Having worked with such setups before, yes the top row is used, infrequently but watched
Ow my neck
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
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.
surely just using the terminal?
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.
