The bug: feature to show the invisible cursor on the screen in Linux
It is likely that each computer user could not always find the cursor position on the screen. At the same time, there is an active movement of the mouse, or driving a finger on the touchpad in an attempt to find it.
Linux systems have a built-in feature that will help you locate the cursor on the screen by pressing the assigned key. By default, this feature is not enabled in all shells, so it often has to be enabled. I found the locate-pointer function in the dconf editor at Code:
org/gnome/settings-daemon/peripherals/mouse By default, it will be enough to press the Ctrl key and the cursor will be highlighted on the screen, but I have a bug in Gnome 3.30.2 or in ZORIN OS 15.2 based on 18.04.1-Ubuntu and this does not happen (the cursor does not change its shape and not highlight when pressing left and right Ctrl). What to do other than wait for an update? P.S. View of the editor dconf (Translation from Russian into English phrases with the screenshot): Summary Подсвечивает текущее положение указателя при нажатие клавиши Ctrl. = Summary Highlights the current position of the pointer when you press Ctrl. Type Логическое = Type Logical |
Have you tried to do this from the command line?
Code:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse locate-pointer true |
I activated the "locate-pointer" function by another method:
Code:
$ dconf write "/org/gnome/settings-daemon.peripherias/mouse/locate-pointer" true |
What 's your Operating System, shruggy?
Does the cursor highlight when you press ctrl? |
Code:
$ grep -Po '^PRETTY.*=\K.*' /etc/os-release |
Can the cursor position be displayed in a X11 session or in a Wayland session?
Now I 'm studying how to switch? |
I have Xorg (x11) by default. Switched from Xorg (x11) to Wayland. The cursor is not highlighted, the same way.
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Yes, on CentOS 8.
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Thank you very much, shruggy! |
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