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1. josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 22:01:42 JST josef

   i find visual studio code weirdly unusable and it's taken me years to work out why: the fucking hand cursor. all the clickable UI elements change the mouse cursor to a goddamn hand! and theres no way to switch it off. my workaround every time i encounter this issue every couple years is to close visual studio code and uninstall it

   • josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 22:01:41 JST josef

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     there's a couple of issues open on this and one was closed as "not a bug, this is intentional, we really want our program thats actually a web page to feel like a web page" and the other is still open, with some comments a couple weeks ago like "yo is this ever going to be looked at, it should be like 8 lines of code to make this a config option surely"

     Kuba Orlik repeated this.
   • josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 22:01:41 JST josef

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     im sure you can do per-application cursor overrides on linux by creating some files called like cursor.override.d/10-disable-hand-cursors-vscode.conf inside a maze of directories that will stop working in 3 months when you update the window manager, or on windows by installing a 10kb exe called "Bud's Cursor Smasher" that sits in the system tray with a little icon of bud himself giving you a thumbs up and a tooltip keeping track of Number Of Cursor's Smashed

   • Kuba Orlik (kuba@toot.kuba-orlik.name)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 22:22:21 JST Kuba Orlik

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     @jk isn't it just an Electron app? Maybe you could change that with some css?

     * {
     cursor: default!important;
     }