Poll: Do you use mouse pointer trails?

ZiNgA BuRgA · 05/01/2009 05:00 AM

I used to have them on my comp many years back, more for the interesting animation than anything else. Really annoying to me nowadays, but do you use them?

diego · 05/01/2009 05:02 AM

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:I used to have them on my comp many years back, more for the interesting animation than anything else. Really annoying to me nowadays

Same here.

PSPkiller · 05/01/2009 05:29 AM

diego Wrote:
ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:I used to have them on my comp many years back, more for the interesting animation than anything else. Really annoying to me nowadays

Same here.

I concur.

my old computer would fudge up if you used them. The trails would be drawn but not erased, so eventually the whole screen would fill with pointers. Ah the wonders of cheap Dell computers with Intel onboard graphics. That thing didn't even have an AGP slot so there was no practical way of upgrading the graphics.

feinicks · 05/01/2009 05:30 AM

diego Wrote:
ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:I used to have them on my comp many years back, more for the interesting animation than anything else. Really annoying to me nowadays

Same here.

they are good for getting used to the fast pointer movements, if you increase the sensitivity of the mouse (or get a highly sensitive mouse) and can't follow it around.

Sparker · 05/01/2009 05:32 AM

I used to use them because I thought they looked cool.

squee666 · 05/01/2009 06:35 AM

their fun to use in college cause its trippy

remember on old pcs how folder used to do the same thing when you comp lagged

SchmilK · 05/01/2009 06:40 AM

I see them enabled on many slow, viral infected computers that I fix...I have never asked if they enabled that on purpose, or if it was an accidental mouse click, or if some smiley mouse package did it, but i always disable that and return their cursor to windows standard. I see the brontosaurus cursor used alot which is pretty funny with trails enabled.

SchmilK · 05/01/2009 06:40 AM

squee666 Wrote:their fun to use in college cause its trippy

remember on old pcs how folder used to do the same thing when you comp lagged

hah that's exactly what i think of when i see them too!

diego · 05/01/2009 07:03 AM

SchmilK Wrote:I see them enabled on many slow, viral infected computers that I fix...I have never asked if they enabled that on purpose, or if it was an accidental mouse click, or if some smiley mouse package did it, but i always disable that and return their cursor to windows standard. I see the brontosaurus cursor used alot which is pretty funny with trails enabled.

DINOSAUR!

boogschd · 05/01/2009 07:25 AM

don't use them trails

lol @ dino cursors ... :D

i use xFree (?) / ubuntu cursors

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