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- on different design philosophies in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026
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on different design philosophies in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026
I see someone doesn’t use multiple monitors.
But hey, that’s okay, you do you 👍
Still though, if you ever setup 3 or more monitors, you’ll find out that feature is quite useful to answer the question “What fucking screen is the mouse pointer on?!”
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on different design philosophies in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026
That leaving trails feature was more designed for very old school LCDs with extremely slow refresh time, but yeah indeed it was a feature to help visibility.
No shit Watson, that’s exactly what I’m talking about.
My first laptop was a Toshiba 1950CT from 1994, upgraded from Windows 3.1 to 95. The screen refresh time (not to be confused with vertical refresh rate), was about a half a second.
Move the mouse pointer, it would take about half a second before the old cursor faded out and the new position cursor appeared.
I had my cursor trails set to either 2 or 3 on that thing, because moving the cursor at all made it otherwise totally disappear while the screen faded in and out between frames.