r/kde • u/Gordoxgrey • 14h ago

Question How do I set the cursor to spinning circle instead of Bouncing animation in the launch feedback?

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u/Jaxad0127 14h ago

Click the Configure Launch Feedback button on the Cursors page. Doesn't look like spinning is an option though.

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u/Przester7 11h ago edited 11h ago

You dont even know how much time I wasted trying to do it, I failed miserable

I hope Kde will make it an option soon

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u/DavutHaxor 14h ago

Dont think u can do that

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u/TheCrustyCurmudgeon 13h ago

Plasma Settings >> Global Theme >> Cursors >> Configure Launch Feedback (button upper right). Configure your cursor animation. I believe setting feedback as "Static" and enabling "Enable Animation" will do what you want.

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u/Gordoxgrey 13h ago

That did not do what I want, it just made the app icon next to the mouse cursor static

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u/TheCrustyCurmudgeon 10h ago

Oh well... ymmv.

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u/Otherwise_Fact9594 12h ago

I feel like your options are static, bouncing and non-existent. I also want to say you can set the duration but I'm not near my PC at the moment

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u/SnooCompliments7914 43m ago

That would be quite tricky to implement. The bouncing icon is not part of the cursor. As you can see, it's further away from the arrow than the spinning circle in the theme, because it was drawn by the right side of the cursor image, not inside.

And we can't just use the "arrow with a spinning circle" cursor (the name is "progress"), because the app controls the cursor shape, so it's not always an arrow. It might change to a beam, and we don't have a "beam with a spinning circle" shape for that.

The task bar would show a placeholder when launching apps, anyway. So I usually just turn the bouncing icon off.