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[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

That's why I no longer code in C#.

[-] Chais@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

This is a job for a tiling WM. Imagine doing this on Window$.

[-] trumpetmouth@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago

for real though, the CTRL tap accessibility feature to find the cursor is a lifesaver

[-] edinbruh@feddit.it 76 points 1 week ago

On KDE and on MacOS, if you shake the cursor it becomes larger

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

I guess this confirms that I am a man, because I refuse to do anything except jiggle the mouse until I see it.

[-] Klairabelle@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Am woman, learned today you can use CTRL to find it as I too wiggle it until I find it.

[-] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

that's what she said!

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

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?

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

i had a similar setup when i worked at a NOC.

thank god i never intended to have children. lol

[-] VegOwOtenks@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago
[-] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 week ago
[-] Noja@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

The cursor is on Monitor 3 (there is no monitor 3 but Windows thinks there is)

[-] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

I'm confused... Cursor? Surely you control everything via keyboard?

[-] prettybunnys@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago
[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Image with just text saying "ME: it doesn't have a tail, so I'm pretty sure it's a hamster." Tech Support: "\*Sigh* fine. Right click on your hamster...:

(Shamelessly stolen from this very community.)

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 20 points 1 week ago

right-click and see where a menu opens.

[-] crazycaveman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

pastes into putty

am I doing it right?

[-] CForsyth@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago
[-] chattre 14 points 1 week ago

KDE shaky shaky

[-] Subscript5676@piefed.ca 13 points 1 week ago

What is this activity you call "looking for my cursor?

On my computer, I summon my cursor.

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[-] derry@midwest.social 10 points 1 week ago

Fooled us all. That's a tanning booth.

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

I now undestand whom that KDE cursor is for?

[-] Speiser0@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago

That's why you have eyes in the panel.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

You’d need 3 sets to triangulate with in this setup.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

No, seriously: what are they for? They exist since X and at that time, displays were 800p max.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

People have been losing their cursors since the Xerox labs days.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

There's no way he ever looks at the top row.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

this is why he can't find his mouse.

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 1 week ago

Having worked with such setups before, yes the top row is used, infrequently but watched

[-] Gumbyyy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago
[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

surely just using the terminal?

[-] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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

[-] gwl 4 points 1 week ago

Where the fuck is the image? Not loading for me

[-] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Check monitor number 8, it may have opened there.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] raven@lemmy.org 2 points 1 week ago

Wiggle thing on MacOS and you'll see it. ✨ Got you covered there.

this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2026
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