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So I like this MacOS feature where your cursor displays in large. I was hoping if anyone knew of such software that replicates this functionality for Linux. Considering MacOS and Linux are both Unix, and libraries are different, could X or Wayland help replicate this?

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[–] blakeus12@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

gnome may be the desktop environment, depending on your distro. it looks like this:

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if your desktop looks like that, it's gnome (Pop_! OS, Ubuntu/Kubuntu, and a few others come with it by default)

[–] Aman9das@lemmus.org 6 points 10 months ago

None of the GNOME distros use this version anymore actually.. GNOME changed its design with version 40 onwards

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

Isn't the entire point of kubuntu being KDE instead of gnome...?