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   tyil (tyil@fedi.tyil.nl)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Jul-2025 23:09:24 JST tyil

   I have too much screen real estate on my desktop, and sometimes I lose my mouse. Is there any program for #X11 that can help me to find my mouse cursor when I lose track of it?

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Jul-2025 23:09:18 JST 翠星石

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     @tyil @radix023 There is a xorg program that makes an expanding circle at the mouse position, but I don't remember the name.
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     tyil (tyil@fedi.tyil.nl)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Jul-2025 23:09:20 JST tyil

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     @radix023@noauthority.social I'll keep it as a last resort option 😆

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     radix023 (radix023@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Jul-2025 23:09:22 JST radix023

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     <joke>xneko? </joke>

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     Makako (mamako@tsundere.love)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Jul-2025 23:37:34 JST Makako

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     @Suiseiseki @tyil @radix023 is it normal if the printers at my work print out a series of pages with the words GET HELP along with random symbols on about five pages every day?
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Jul-2025 23:37:34 JST 翠星石

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     • Makako
     @Mamako @tyil @radix023 Yes, that's the proprietary daemons screeching.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Jul-2025 23:37:36 JST 翠星石

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     @tyil @radix023 Seems to be the locate pointer function from gnome.
     
     Someone has re-implemented it; `git clone https://github.com/arp242/find-cursor`
     
     ./find-cursor -g -c white
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Jul-2025 00:30:04 JST 翠星石

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     @tyil @radix023 Unfortunately the "@FREE" set includes proprietary licenses.
     
     The current required setting seems to be; ACCEPT_LICENSE="-* @FREE -Artistic -NPSL-0.95"
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     tyil (tyil@fedi.tyil.nl)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Jul-2025 00:30:07 JST tyil

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     @radix023@noauthority.social @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com The distro doesn't matter too much, so long as you stick to free software anyway. Just the defaults and the package manager change the experience between them, generally speaking.
     
     When in doubt, there's always the option of #Gentoo, just set ACCEPT_LICENSE="-* @FREE" in your make.conf.

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     radix023 (radix023@noauthority.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Jul-2025 00:30:08 JST radix023

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     @tyil @Suiseiseki

     it's funny you say that: after giving Ubuntu a few months as a daily driver abandoning win10 and I need a different distro

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     tyil (tyil@fedi.tyil.nl)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Jul-2025 00:30:09 JST tyil

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     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @radix023@noauthority.social I'm going to guess this will add yet another line to the list of reasons why I #X11 is still better than #Wayland, but what's one extra line on a long list.

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     tyil (tyil@fedi.tyil.nl)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Jul-2025 00:30:11 JST tyil

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     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @radix023@noauthority.social That's near perfect! Sadly not packaged in either GNU+Linux distro I use, but simple to compile manually either way. Thanks!

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Jul-2025 00:31:30 JST 翠星石

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     @tyil @radix023 Ah yes, also many packages in Gentoo have the wrong license listed - for example all the Linux ebuild's are LICENSE="GPL-2", when they really should be LICENSE="GPL-2[-only] no-source-code",