Re: FVWM: Visually locating mouse cursor

From: Mikhael Goikhman <migo_at_homemail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 00:07:55 +0000

On 17 Feb 2004 15:52:35 -0800, Robert Knighten wrote:
>
> >From time to time I loose track of the location of the mouse cursor, and may
> have trouble locating it. Windows XP has a handy feature whereby pressing the
> control key produces a momentary animation pointing to the mouse cursor. Does
> someone have a vaguely similar facility using fvwm? Anything that will draw
> attention to the cursor (e.g. flash it, put a box around it, ???) would be
> good, and any short key sequence will do.

Take a look at FAQ #7.16.

Or maybe even:

  Key Super_L A N Exec xmessage -name "SmallBlob" -bg red -fg white -nearmouse -timeout 1 -button "" -xrm '*cursorName: none' -xrm '*borderWidth: 2' -xrm '*borderColor: yellow' -xrm '*Margin: 12' 'I am here!'

Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Tue Feb 17 2004 - 18:10:11 GMT

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