On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 20:38 -0500, Eben King wrote:
> Hey folks. I had this problem before, but now that I have two monitors it's
> only gotten worse. Occasionally, I lose the mouse pointer and I have to
> track it down by waving the pointer and seeing what windows highlight. (At
> least the two monitors line up so there are no ledges for the pointer to get
> hung up on.) I have a spare button on my trackball that I can't find a use
> for (#6, TTBOMK X only supports 5). Is it possible to make it launch a
> utility that shows a graphic for half a second or however long it's held
> down for? I guess if I can't use it I'll use some unusual key. I use fvwm2
> which is pretty feature-free; I haven't seen that function in it.
>
Heh, these are silly ideas, but you could always put xeyes on your
desktop and see where it is looking or install oneko and have your
cursor become an pet.
Just an idea,
Logan
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