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The feature of the bouncing cursor is called "launch feedback" and you can turn it on/off on a per application basis in KDE 3.5.6. Go to the K Menu, go to the application you want to change (do not left-click the application menu item!), right-click it, select "Edit item", clear the "Enable launch feedback" checkbox, close the KDE Menu Editor and save the changes. This is the only way to do it in the above mentioned KDE version through the GUI.

In previous KDE versions there was a tool called "Control Center" (available in the default K Menu) where you could globally enable/disable launch feedback for all applications. This control center is now replaced by the "System Settings" menu item which does not yet contain the means to do the same. However the control center is still there, it's just not in the menu. You can start it from a console (command line) with the kcontrol command. Go into "Appearance & Themes" / "Launch Feedback" and change the value of the "Busy Cursor" setting from "Bouning Cursor" to "No Busy Cursor" to get rid of the bounce effect. That's all.