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This is way cooler than I expected.

It's an over-the-top animation of a terminal cursor moving from position to position, helps notice where it moved to. I thought it'll be something about mouse cursor animations. I could see myself using this if a) I was using more TUI apps and b) it'd be toned down quite a bit.

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I think was popularized by Neovide

https://neovide.dev/features.html#animated-cursor

Here it's less dramatic and hence more useful.

I wish more terminals implemented something similar.

Author here, I just chose the fire cursor for the demo. There are lots of other shaders available, eg https://github.com/KroneCorylus/ghostty-shader-playground/tr..., they have a simple smear cursor like Neovide's.

The fire is perfect for the demo, and for screencasts maybe.

Strong second.

I never knew this was a thing.

This is so fucking cool. I'm going to add this right away.

Kitty also supports them with the cursor_trail option: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/#opt-kitty.cursor_trail

As a kitty user, I'll have to try this out.

Thanks!

The home page has GIFs of both a simpler smear-fade cursor and a wilder manga-slash cursor https://tattoy.sh

Where? I only see the fire one too.

Under the Animated Cursors heading. Here are direct links to the webms if you still can't find them:

https://tattoy.sh/assets/screenshots/cursor_smear_fade.webm

https://tattoy.sh/assets/screenshots/manga_slash.webm

Reminds me of the old Compiz plugin that would make your windows burst into flames on closing.

Compiz effects was truly the killer feature for Linux for 12 year old me :)

14 year-old me set up Linux Mint with this LSD Conky display for my grandmother. I said something like "Well technically it's LSD but it looks cool so don't worry about it".

https://github.com/matmutant/LSD-Conky

in hindsight, I do regret not yet being able to supply my <3 grandma with a small dose, might have condoled her senseless fury (dementia rage or so).. RIP

If you'd like to scratch that itch... https://github.com/Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows

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