How do I rebind the “Show position of pointer when the Control key is pressed” to left click?












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I am on Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon 64-bit and I want to show highlight the pointer when I press click, to highlight the mouse in recordings. I tried KeyMon for this but it is pretty buggy: the highlight does not fade out if you move the cursor and the highlight can't go everywhere on the screen (such as the taskbar, or on the far left).



The option to show pointer when you press CTRL looks pretty much like I want, but I want to rebind it to left click instead of CTRL. Also, I'd like for the effect not to be activated when I press CTRL so I can use CTRL+C, CTRL+V, etc without showing the effect (so making the left click also trigger CTRL is not the ideal solution).



So is there any way I can do it?






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    I am on Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon 64-bit and I want to show highlight the pointer when I press click, to highlight the mouse in recordings. I tried KeyMon for this but it is pretty buggy: the highlight does not fade out if you move the cursor and the highlight can't go everywhere on the screen (such as the taskbar, or on the far left).



    The option to show pointer when you press CTRL looks pretty much like I want, but I want to rebind it to left click instead of CTRL. Also, I'd like for the effect not to be activated when I press CTRL so I can use CTRL+C, CTRL+V, etc without showing the effect (so making the left click also trigger CTRL is not the ideal solution).



    So is there any way I can do it?






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      I am on Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon 64-bit and I want to show highlight the pointer when I press click, to highlight the mouse in recordings. I tried KeyMon for this but it is pretty buggy: the highlight does not fade out if you move the cursor and the highlight can't go everywhere on the screen (such as the taskbar, or on the far left).



      The option to show pointer when you press CTRL looks pretty much like I want, but I want to rebind it to left click instead of CTRL. Also, I'd like for the effect not to be activated when I press CTRL so I can use CTRL+C, CTRL+V, etc without showing the effect (so making the left click also trigger CTRL is not the ideal solution).



      So is there any way I can do it?






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      I am on Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon 64-bit and I want to show highlight the pointer when I press click, to highlight the mouse in recordings. I tried KeyMon for this but it is pretty buggy: the highlight does not fade out if you move the cursor and the highlight can't go everywhere on the screen (such as the taskbar, or on the far left).



      The option to show pointer when you press CTRL looks pretty much like I want, but I want to rebind it to left click instead of CTRL. Also, I'd like for the effect not to be activated when I press CTRL so I can use CTRL+C, CTRL+V, etc without showing the effect (so making the left click also trigger CTRL is not the ideal solution).



      So is there any way I can do it?






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          I don't know how to rebind the key but we can solve this problem with a small script. Considering that the pointer is showed when you press CTRL we can automate the process of pressing CTRL just after you left-click the mouse. That's possible using cnee and xdotool:



          sudo apt install cnee xdotool


          If you run the following line of code you will see the same animation that you see pressing CTRL when you left-click the mouse (while you keep your terminal window open):



          cnee --record --mouse | awk  '/7,4,0,0,1/ { system("xdotool keydown ctrl keyup ctrl keyup alt") }'


          Result:



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            I don't know how to rebind the key but we can solve this problem with a small script. Considering that the pointer is showed when you press CTRL we can automate the process of pressing CTRL just after you left-click the mouse. That's possible using cnee and xdotool:



            sudo apt install cnee xdotool


            If you run the following line of code you will see the same animation that you see pressing CTRL when you left-click the mouse (while you keep your terminal window open):



            cnee --record --mouse | awk  '/7,4,0,0,1/ { system("xdotool keydown ctrl keyup ctrl keyup alt") }'


            Result:



            enter image description here






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              I don't know how to rebind the key but we can solve this problem with a small script. Considering that the pointer is showed when you press CTRL we can automate the process of pressing CTRL just after you left-click the mouse. That's possible using cnee and xdotool:



              sudo apt install cnee xdotool


              If you run the following line of code you will see the same animation that you see pressing CTRL when you left-click the mouse (while you keep your terminal window open):



              cnee --record --mouse | awk  '/7,4,0,0,1/ { system("xdotool keydown ctrl keyup ctrl keyup alt") }'


              Result:



              enter image description here






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                I don't know how to rebind the key but we can solve this problem with a small script. Considering that the pointer is showed when you press CTRL we can automate the process of pressing CTRL just after you left-click the mouse. That's possible using cnee and xdotool:



                sudo apt install cnee xdotool


                If you run the following line of code you will see the same animation that you see pressing CTRL when you left-click the mouse (while you keep your terminal window open):



                cnee --record --mouse | awk  '/7,4,0,0,1/ { system("xdotool keydown ctrl keyup ctrl keyup alt") }'


                Result:



                enter image description here






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                I don't know how to rebind the key but we can solve this problem with a small script. Considering that the pointer is showed when you press CTRL we can automate the process of pressing CTRL just after you left-click the mouse. That's possible using cnee and xdotool:



                sudo apt install cnee xdotool


                If you run the following line of code you will see the same animation that you see pressing CTRL when you left-click the mouse (while you keep your terminal window open):



                cnee --record --mouse | awk  '/7,4,0,0,1/ { system("xdotool keydown ctrl keyup ctrl keyup alt") }'


                Result:



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