Mouse pointer in Wayland enlarges as move it around?

[Gary1]

In regards to the following post, I tried Wayland again. Woud you please tell me how to get the mouse pointer to stop growing as it is moved around. Don’t have nVidia but the built in card that comes with HP desktop-- a something 630 I think. Using KDE. Thank you.

Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Kaby Lake-S GT2 [HD Graphics 630] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20
    ports: active: DP-1 empty: DP-2, DP-3, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2, HDMI-A-3
    bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:5912 class-ID: 0300

End of X11 on plasma

I am reading that plasma 6.7 will be the last version to have X11 support. I still haven’t made the switch to wayland because there still are way too many issues for me to deal with, and many of the applications I have grown accustomed to do not work well. From strange scaling artifacts, and strange mouse acceleration to, Kfrb unattended access not working, and gpu screen recorder not being able to record windows. Even Steam on Nvidia doesn’t work well on wayland. The last time I tried it, th…

[Takakage]

System settings > Input & output > Accessibility > Shake pointer?

[tracyanne]

I was about to post that as well. Shake pointer is really useful especially when I’m using Multiple Monitors.

[ilenisaatio]

I keep losing my pointer, so it helps; especially when glare hits the screen.

[Aragorn]

@ilenisaatio

I keep losing my pointer

A much better approach is the “Track Mouse” effect. Just press CtrlMeta and your cursor will become animated with two counter-rotating semicircles in contrasting colors. Press the shortcut again to deactivate the effect.

[tracyanne]

@Aragorn

Just press CtrlMeta and your cursor will become animated with two counter-rotating semicircles in contrasting colors.

Yes that works too. I’m just not a Keyboard Shortcut person.

[Aragorn]

@tracyanne

I’m just not a Keyboard Shortcut person.

They are two adjacent keys — or at least, on the left side of the keyboard (in my keyboard layout) — so it’s easy to just give them a quick tap with one’s thumb.

[tracyanne]

@Aragorn

They are two adjacent keys

I know and I also know how it works, and I’ve even experimented with it, and yes it works as described on the tin.

That’s not my point. Shortcut keys are not my first thought. In fact they are rarely if ever a thought.

Back in the day I worked on WANG minis and Mainframes. the entire operating system was Shortcut key driven (well Function key), and I actually hated it. No typing commands.