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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by bpicolo on Friday March 31, 2017 @05:57PM (#14008704)
It's a bit weird to drag things onto my 4k TV through HDMI and try to track my microscopic mouse pointer to the tiny window to maximize my video, but otherwise works well. I suspect I could fix that in settings somehow though.
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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by acomjean on Saturday April 01, 2017 @09:29AM (#14012010)
On newer macos shaking the mouse back and forth makes the pointer get larger (so you can find it).

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7583592?start=0&tstart=...

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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by majewsky on Monday April 03, 2017 @07:09PM (#14028096)
KDE has a similar feature: When you hold Ctrl+Win, it will draw revolving circle segments in black and white around the cursor to allow you to find it. It looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/67wfI (You'll have to imagine the cursor inside these circles. My screenshot utility won't include it in the image for some reason.)
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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by dahauns on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:54PM (#14056437)
Heh...I think Windows 3.11 already had that feature (Ctrl -> Circle zooming in to mouse) :)
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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by BorisMelnik on Friday March 31, 2017 @10:41PM (#14010100)
have you considered swapping out to a BIIIG mouse pointer? that's what I do on my home 65" HTPC/ TVPC :)
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