In gnome I just went to System->Preferences->Mouse
The "pointers" tab and selected "Highlight the pointer when you press
control"
Now when you press control and release an nice animation appears around the
mouse pointer.
And it appears smart enough to not do it when I do something like "Ctrl+F"
for find in firefox.
Although I think the xeyes idea is great.
On Jan 11, 2008 2:21 AM, logan <thelogan@allyourbase-arebelongto.us> wrote:
> 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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