Is there a linux equivalent to Mac's “Shake to Find Cursor”?
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My coworker has a Mac, and when he loses his mouse cursor, he wiggles the mouse, and the mouse pointer gets bigger and bigger to visually show its location.
Is there anything like that in Linux? I know you can enable an option to press Ctrl to show a quick ripple animation around your pointer. But that requires accessing the keyboard. I'd love to have something like that but only require interaction with the mouse.
Has this been implemented anywhere? Or am I forced to reach over to the keyboard (so difficult!) to help me locate the cursor on 1 of 3 monitors?
linux-mint x11 mouse accessibility
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My coworker has a Mac, and when he loses his mouse cursor, he wiggles the mouse, and the mouse pointer gets bigger and bigger to visually show its location.
Is there anything like that in Linux? I know you can enable an option to press Ctrl to show a quick ripple animation around your pointer. But that requires accessing the keyboard. I'd love to have something like that but only require interaction with the mouse.
Has this been implemented anywhere? Or am I forced to reach over to the keyboard (so difficult!) to help me locate the cursor on 1 of 3 monitors?
linux-mint x11 mouse accessibility
edited Feb 28 '17 at 22:26
Gilles
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asked Feb 28 '17 at 20:49
Stephen Schrauger
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Linux is the kernel so no, but X11 may have it. If not then someone could add it. (Note this site incorrectly and confusingly used Linux to mean Gnu/Linux. This error is not unique to this site.)
– ctrl-alt-delor
Feb 28 '17 at 21:12
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You could have Neko chase your mouse cursor (or a herd of them and his pals with different speed and reactivity if it's still not enough).
– Stéphane Chazelas
Feb 28 '17 at 21:16
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I think he want [nero] to appear when he shakes the mouse, so would need some mouse gesture software to trigger the effect.
– ctrl-alt-delor
Feb 28 '17 at 21:21
I don't know of any existing implementation, but it'd be a nice weekend project to write one. Have a look at the source code ofxeyesfor inspiration. Keep it mind cursors are bitmaps, and X places no restrictions on the shapes that can be used, so just "make it bigger" might be more difficult than "use a series of custom cursors of increasing size".
– dirkt
Mar 1 '17 at 10:07
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My coworker has a Mac, and when he loses his mouse cursor, he wiggles the mouse, and the mouse pointer gets bigger and bigger to visually show its location.
Is there anything like that in Linux? I know you can enable an option to press Ctrl to show a quick ripple animation around your pointer. But that requires accessing the keyboard. I'd love to have something like that but only require interaction with the mouse.
Has this been implemented anywhere? Or am I forced to reach over to the keyboard (so difficult!) to help me locate the cursor on 1 of 3 monitors?
linux-mint x11 mouse accessibility
edited Feb 28 '17 at 22:26
Gilles
523k12610411575
asked Feb 28 '17 at 20:49
Stephen Schrauger
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My coworker has a Mac, and when he loses his mouse cursor, he wiggles the mouse, and the mouse pointer gets bigger and bigger to visually show its location.
Is there anything like that in Linux? I know you can enable an option to press Ctrl to show a quick ripple animation around your pointer. But that requires accessing the keyboard. I'd love to have something like that but only require interaction with the mouse.
Has this been implemented anywhere? Or am I forced to reach over to the keyboard (so difficult!) to help me locate the cursor on 1 of 3 monitors?
linux-mint x11 mouse accessibility
linux-mint x11 mouse accessibility
edited Feb 28 '17 at 22:26
Gilles
523k12610411575
asked Feb 28 '17 at 20:49
Stephen Schrauger
395311
edited Feb 28 '17 at 22:26
Gilles
523k12610411575
asked Feb 28 '17 at 20:49
Stephen Schrauger
395311
edited Feb 28 '17 at 22:26
Gilles
523k12610411575
edited Feb 28 '17 at 22:26
Gilles
523k12610411575
edited Feb 28 '17 at 22:26
Gilles
523k12610411575
523k12610411575
asked Feb 28 '17 at 20:49
Stephen Schrauger
395311
asked Feb 28 '17 at 20:49
Stephen Schrauger
395311
asked Feb 28 '17 at 20:49
Stephen Schrauger
395311
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Linux is the kernel so no, but X11 may have it. If not then someone could add it. (Note this site incorrectly and confusingly used Linux to mean Gnu/Linux. This error is not unique to this site.)
– ctrl-alt-delor
Feb 28 '17 at 21:12
3
You could have Neko chase your mouse cursor (or a herd of them and his pals with different speed and reactivity if it's still not enough).
– Stéphane Chazelas
Feb 28 '17 at 21:16
2
I think he want [nero] to appear when he shakes the mouse, so would need some mouse gesture software to trigger the effect.
– ctrl-alt-delor
Feb 28 '17 at 21:21
I don't know of any existing implementation, but it'd be a nice weekend project to write one. Have a look at the source code ofxeyesfor inspiration. Keep it mind cursors are bitmaps, and X places no restrictions on the shapes that can be used, so just "make it bigger" might be more difficult than "use a series of custom cursors of increasing size".
– dirkt
Mar 1 '17 at 10:07
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Linux is the kernel so no, but X11 may have it. If not then someone could add it. (Note this site incorrectly and confusingly used Linux to mean Gnu/Linux. This error is not unique to this site.)
– ctrl-alt-delor
Feb 28 '17 at 21:12
3
You could have Neko chase your mouse cursor (or a herd of them and his pals with different speed and reactivity if it's still not enough).
– Stéphane Chazelas
Feb 28 '17 at 21:16
2
I think he want [nero] to appear when he shakes the mouse, so would need some mouse gesture software to trigger the effect.
– ctrl-alt-delor
Feb 28 '17 at 21:21
I don't know of any existing implementation, but it'd be a nice weekend project to write one. Have a look at the source code ofxeyesfor inspiration. Keep it mind cursors are bitmaps, and X places no restrictions on the shapes that can be used, so just "make it bigger" might be more difficult than "use a series of custom cursors of increasing size".
– dirkt
Mar 1 '17 at 10:07
1
1
Linux is the kernel so no, but X11 may have it. If not then someone could add it. (Note this site incorrectly and confusingly used Linux to mean Gnu/Linux. This error is not unique to this site.)
– ctrl-alt-delor
Feb 28 '17 at 21:12
Linux is the kernel so no, but X11 may have it. If not then someone could add it. (Note this site incorrectly and confusingly used Linux to mean Gnu/Linux. This error is not unique to this site.)
– ctrl-alt-delor
Feb 28 '17 at 21:12
3
3
You could have Neko chase your mouse cursor (or a herd of them and his pals with different speed and reactivity if it's still not enough).
– Stéphane Chazelas
Feb 28 '17 at 21:16
You could have Neko chase your mouse cursor (or a herd of them and his pals with different speed and reactivity if it's still not enough).
– Stéphane Chazelas
Feb 28 '17 at 21:16
2
2
I think he want [nero] to appear when he shakes the mouse, so would need some mouse gesture software to trigger the effect.
– ctrl-alt-delor
Feb 28 '17 at 21:21
I think he want [nero] to appear when he shakes the mouse, so would need some mouse gesture software to trigger the effect.
– ctrl-alt-delor
Feb 28 '17 at 21:21
I don't know of any existing implementation, but it'd be a nice weekend project to write one. Have a look at the source code of
xeyes for inspiration. Keep it mind cursors are bitmaps, and X places no restrictions on the shapes that can be used, so just "make it bigger" might be more difficult than "use a series of custom cursors of increasing size".– dirkt
Mar 1 '17 at 10:07
I don't know of any existing implementation, but it'd be a nice weekend project to write one. Have a look at the source code of
xeyes for inspiration. Keep it mind cursors are bitmaps, and X places no restrictions on the shapes that can be used, so just "make it bigger" might be more difficult than "use a series of custom cursors of increasing size".– dirkt
Mar 1 '17 at 10:07
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You could install compiz fusion and then add a mouse keybinding if you have a mouse with a scroll wheel that supports click, just assign a "key binding" to the 'show mouse' plugin for clicking the mouse wheel.
http://wiki.compiz.org/Plugins/Showmouse
Credit to https://askubuntu.com/questions/370344/is-there-a-mouse-trail-option for the screenshot of ccsm showing that there is a mouse button initiate capability for this plugin.
answered Nov 14 '17 at 16:31
linuxgeek
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also i have to add, rofl @Stéphane Chazelas's suggestion to have oneko chase the cursor I thought that was good.
– linuxgeek
Nov 27 '17 at 18:06
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Changing the cursor size would be a bit tricky, but you could set up a mouse gesture in something like easystroke that would send a ctrl key event and thus trigger the "ripple" effect. Easystroke won't let you send a modifier key by itself, but you could get around this by choosing "Command" for the action and entering xdotool key ctrl (making sure to have xdotool installed of course).
I tested this myself and it does work... kinda. Getting the gesture to trigger seems a tad difficult, but in fairness I've only got a trackpad to work with at the moment.
answered Mar 28 '17 at 10:58
Ian Blais
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xeyes helps you locate the pointing device, it does not make the pointer bigger, but it keeps its "eyes" on the pointing device. It comes standard in the repos (x11-apps package on Debian-based systems).
If you want something "fancy", then linuxgeek's answer is what you want ... compiz fusion comes with a lot of plugins, e.g. for wobbly windows, a cube effect and rotating cursor among many more.
Make sure you have the proprietary graphics driver installed (nvidia/amd, only)
sudo apt-get install compiz compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-plugins-extra libdecoration0-dev
Ensure direct rendering is enabled:
glxinfo | grep render
Should return direct rendering: yes
If it does you can issue compiz --replace to start compiz.
To return to Mate, assuming you use Mate, issue marco --replace. For other Desktop environments, you will have to look up the name of the window manager binary.
answered Nov 14 '17 at 17:42
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If you want to find your mouse pointer in a sea of pixels you can tap and release the Control key.
If you are running Ubuntu w/Unity Desktop or Ubuntu w/Gnome Desktop run:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse locate-pointer true
If you no longer want mouse pointer revealed reverse it's effect with:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse locate-pointer false
Here's what it looks like enabled:
answered Nov 27 at 0:30
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You could install compiz fusion and then add a mouse keybinding if you have a mouse with a scroll wheel that supports click, just assign a "key binding" to the 'show mouse' plugin for clicking the mouse wheel.
http://wiki.compiz.org/Plugins/Showmouse
Credit to https://askubuntu.com/questions/370344/is-there-a-mouse-trail-option for the screenshot of ccsm showing that there is a mouse button initiate capability for this plugin.
answered Nov 14 '17 at 16:31
linuxgeek
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also i have to add, rofl @Stéphane Chazelas's suggestion to have oneko chase the cursor I thought that was good.
– linuxgeek
Nov 27 '17 at 18:06
add a comment |
up vote
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You could install compiz fusion and then add a mouse keybinding if you have a mouse with a scroll wheel that supports click, just assign a "key binding" to the 'show mouse' plugin for clicking the mouse wheel.
http://wiki.compiz.org/Plugins/Showmouse
Credit to https://askubuntu.com/questions/370344/is-there-a-mouse-trail-option for the screenshot of ccsm showing that there is a mouse button initiate capability for this plugin.
answered Nov 14 '17 at 16:31
linuxgeek
215
also i have to add, rofl @Stéphane Chazelas's suggestion to have oneko chase the cursor I thought that was good.
– linuxgeek
Nov 27 '17 at 18:06
add a comment |
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up vote
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You could install compiz fusion and then add a mouse keybinding if you have a mouse with a scroll wheel that supports click, just assign a "key binding" to the 'show mouse' plugin for clicking the mouse wheel.
http://wiki.compiz.org/Plugins/Showmouse
Credit to https://askubuntu.com/questions/370344/is-there-a-mouse-trail-option for the screenshot of ccsm showing that there is a mouse button initiate capability for this plugin.
answered Nov 14 '17 at 16:31
linuxgeek
215
You could install compiz fusion and then add a mouse keybinding if you have a mouse with a scroll wheel that supports click, just assign a "key binding" to the 'show mouse' plugin for clicking the mouse wheel.
http://wiki.compiz.org/Plugins/Showmouse
Credit to https://askubuntu.com/questions/370344/is-there-a-mouse-trail-option for the screenshot of ccsm showing that there is a mouse button initiate capability for this plugin.
answered Nov 14 '17 at 16:31
linuxgeek
215
answered Nov 14 '17 at 16:31
linuxgeek
215
answered Nov 14 '17 at 16:31
linuxgeek
215
answered Nov 14 '17 at 16:31
linuxgeek
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215
also i have to add, rofl @Stéphane Chazelas's suggestion to have oneko chase the cursor I thought that was good.
– linuxgeek
Nov 27 '17 at 18:06
add a comment |
also i have to add, rofl @Stéphane Chazelas's suggestion to have oneko chase the cursor I thought that was good.
– linuxgeek
Nov 27 '17 at 18:06
also i have to add, rofl @Stéphane Chazelas's suggestion to have oneko chase the cursor I thought that was good.
– linuxgeek
Nov 27 '17 at 18:06
also i have to add, rofl @Stéphane Chazelas's suggestion to have oneko chase the cursor I thought that was good.
– linuxgeek
Nov 27 '17 at 18:06
add a comment |
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Changing the cursor size would be a bit tricky, but you could set up a mouse gesture in something like easystroke that would send a ctrl key event and thus trigger the "ripple" effect. Easystroke won't let you send a modifier key by itself, but you could get around this by choosing "Command" for the action and entering xdotool key ctrl (making sure to have xdotool installed of course).
I tested this myself and it does work... kinda. Getting the gesture to trigger seems a tad difficult, but in fairness I've only got a trackpad to work with at the moment.
answered Mar 28 '17 at 10:58
Ian Blais
114
add a comment |
up vote
0
down vote
Changing the cursor size would be a bit tricky, but you could set up a mouse gesture in something like easystroke that would send a ctrl key event and thus trigger the "ripple" effect. Easystroke won't let you send a modifier key by itself, but you could get around this by choosing "Command" for the action and entering xdotool key ctrl (making sure to have xdotool installed of course).
I tested this myself and it does work... kinda. Getting the gesture to trigger seems a tad difficult, but in fairness I've only got a trackpad to work with at the moment.
answered Mar 28 '17 at 10:58
Ian Blais
114
add a comment |
up vote
0
down vote
up vote
0
down vote
Changing the cursor size would be a bit tricky, but you could set up a mouse gesture in something like easystroke that would send a ctrl key event and thus trigger the "ripple" effect. Easystroke won't let you send a modifier key by itself, but you could get around this by choosing "Command" for the action and entering xdotool key ctrl (making sure to have xdotool installed of course).
I tested this myself and it does work... kinda. Getting the gesture to trigger seems a tad difficult, but in fairness I've only got a trackpad to work with at the moment.
answered Mar 28 '17 at 10:58
Ian Blais
114
Changing the cursor size would be a bit tricky, but you could set up a mouse gesture in something like easystroke that would send a ctrl key event and thus trigger the "ripple" effect. Easystroke won't let you send a modifier key by itself, but you could get around this by choosing "Command" for the action and entering xdotool key ctrl (making sure to have xdotool installed of course).
I tested this myself and it does work... kinda. Getting the gesture to trigger seems a tad difficult, but in fairness I've only got a trackpad to work with at the moment.
answered Mar 28 '17 at 10:58
Ian Blais
114
answered Mar 28 '17 at 10:58
Ian Blais
114
answered Mar 28 '17 at 10:58
Ian Blais
114
answered Mar 28 '17 at 10:58
Ian Blais
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xeyes helps you locate the pointing device, it does not make the pointer bigger, but it keeps its "eyes" on the pointing device. It comes standard in the repos (x11-apps package on Debian-based systems).
If you want something "fancy", then linuxgeek's answer is what you want ... compiz fusion comes with a lot of plugins, e.g. for wobbly windows, a cube effect and rotating cursor among many more.
Make sure you have the proprietary graphics driver installed (nvidia/amd, only)
sudo apt-get install compiz compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-plugins-extra libdecoration0-dev
Ensure direct rendering is enabled:
glxinfo | grep render
Should return direct rendering: yes
If it does you can issue compiz --replace to start compiz.
To return to Mate, assuming you use Mate, issue marco --replace. For other Desktop environments, you will have to look up the name of the window manager binary.
answered Nov 14 '17 at 17:42
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xeyes helps you locate the pointing device, it does not make the pointer bigger, but it keeps its "eyes" on the pointing device. It comes standard in the repos (x11-apps package on Debian-based systems).
If you want something "fancy", then linuxgeek's answer is what you want ... compiz fusion comes with a lot of plugins, e.g. for wobbly windows, a cube effect and rotating cursor among many more.
Make sure you have the proprietary graphics driver installed (nvidia/amd, only)
sudo apt-get install compiz compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-plugins-extra libdecoration0-dev
Ensure direct rendering is enabled:
glxinfo | grep render
Should return direct rendering: yes
If it does you can issue compiz --replace to start compiz.
To return to Mate, assuming you use Mate, issue marco --replace. For other Desktop environments, you will have to look up the name of the window manager binary.
answered Nov 14 '17 at 17:42
thecarpy
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up vote
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up vote
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xeyes helps you locate the pointing device, it does not make the pointer bigger, but it keeps its "eyes" on the pointing device. It comes standard in the repos (x11-apps package on Debian-based systems).
If you want something "fancy", then linuxgeek's answer is what you want ... compiz fusion comes with a lot of plugins, e.g. for wobbly windows, a cube effect and rotating cursor among many more.
Make sure you have the proprietary graphics driver installed (nvidia/amd, only)
sudo apt-get install compiz compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-plugins-extra libdecoration0-dev
Ensure direct rendering is enabled:
glxinfo | grep render
Should return direct rendering: yes
If it does you can issue compiz --replace to start compiz.
To return to Mate, assuming you use Mate, issue marco --replace. For other Desktop environments, you will have to look up the name of the window manager binary.
answered Nov 14 '17 at 17:42
thecarpy
2,245824
xeyes helps you locate the pointing device, it does not make the pointer bigger, but it keeps its "eyes" on the pointing device. It comes standard in the repos (x11-apps package on Debian-based systems).
If you want something "fancy", then linuxgeek's answer is what you want ... compiz fusion comes with a lot of plugins, e.g. for wobbly windows, a cube effect and rotating cursor among many more.
Make sure you have the proprietary graphics driver installed (nvidia/amd, only)
sudo apt-get install compiz compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-plugins-extra libdecoration0-dev
Ensure direct rendering is enabled:
glxinfo | grep render
Should return direct rendering: yes
If it does you can issue compiz --replace to start compiz.
To return to Mate, assuming you use Mate, issue marco --replace. For other Desktop environments, you will have to look up the name of the window manager binary.
answered Nov 14 '17 at 17:42
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If you want to find your mouse pointer in a sea of pixels you can tap and release the Control key.
If you are running Ubuntu w/Unity Desktop or Ubuntu w/Gnome Desktop run:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse locate-pointer true
If you no longer want mouse pointer revealed reverse it's effect with:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse locate-pointer false
Here's what it looks like enabled:
answered Nov 27 at 0:30
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If you want to find your mouse pointer in a sea of pixels you can tap and release the Control key.
If you are running Ubuntu w/Unity Desktop or Ubuntu w/Gnome Desktop run:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse locate-pointer true
If you no longer want mouse pointer revealed reverse it's effect with:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse locate-pointer false
Here's what it looks like enabled:
answered Nov 27 at 0:30
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If you want to find your mouse pointer in a sea of pixels you can tap and release the Control key.
If you are running Ubuntu w/Unity Desktop or Ubuntu w/Gnome Desktop run:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse locate-pointer true
If you no longer want mouse pointer revealed reverse it's effect with:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse locate-pointer false
Here's what it looks like enabled:
answered Nov 27 at 0:30
WinEunuuchs2Unix
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If you want to find your mouse pointer in a sea of pixels you can tap and release the Control key.
If you are running Ubuntu w/Unity Desktop or Ubuntu w/Gnome Desktop run:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse locate-pointer true
If you no longer want mouse pointer revealed reverse it's effect with:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse locate-pointer false
Here's what it looks like enabled:
answered Nov 27 at 0:30
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answered Nov 27 at 0:30
WinEunuuchs2Unix
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answered Nov 27 at 0:30
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Linux is the kernel so no, but X11 may have it. If not then someone could add it. (Note this site incorrectly and confusingly used Linux to mean Gnu/Linux. This error is not unique to this site.)
– ctrl-alt-delor
Feb 28 '17 at 21:12
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You could have Neko chase your mouse cursor (or a herd of them and his pals with different speed and reactivity if it's still not enough).
– Stéphane Chazelas
Feb 28 '17 at 21:16
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I think he want [nero] to appear when he shakes the mouse, so would need some mouse gesture software to trigger the effect.
– ctrl-alt-delor
Feb 28 '17 at 21:21
I don't know of any existing implementation, but it'd be a nice weekend project to write one. Have a look at the source code of
xeyesfor inspiration. Keep it mind cursors are bitmaps, and X places no restrictions on the shapes that can be used, so just "make it bigger" might be more difficult than "use a series of custom cursors of increasing size".– dirkt
Mar 1 '17 at 10:07