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Bug 783389 - Option to show a visual indication (e.g. circle) for the mouse pointer when clicking
Option to show a visual indication (e.g. circle) for the mouse pointer when c...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.22.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-06-03 20:15 UTC by André Klapper
Modified: 2021-07-05 14:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.21/3.22



Description André Klapper 2017-06-03 20:15:03 UTC
I've checked the "Universal Access" and "Mouse & Touchpad > Pointing & Clicking" section but could not find anything.

I don't know if this makes sense from an a11y point of view, but it would be a nice to have feature when creating screencasts, to show that you clicked something instead of having to explicitly say "Now click this button".
Comment 1 Paweł Faderewski 2017-06-26 19:55:43 UTC
In "Tweak Tool" -> "Keyboard and Mouse" -> "Show location of pointer".

After enabling this option, pressing CTRL show animation around mouse pointer. However it doesn't work with Wayland, only Xorg. I don't know if not working under Wayland is bug or not.
Comment 2 Florian Müllner 2017-06-26 20:09:06 UTC
(In reply to Paweł Faderewski from comment #1)
> In "Tweak Tool" -> "Keyboard and Mouse" -> "Show location of pointer".
> 
> After enabling this option, pressing CTRL show animation around mouse
> pointer. However it doesn't work with Wayland, only Xorg. I don't know if
> not working under Wayland is bug or not.

It is, namely bug 690055.

However that's different from this issue: The existing feature shows the location of the pointer when a particular key is pressed, to help the user locate the pointer. What this bug is asking for is a visual indication of pointer events, so that viewers of a screen recording can more easily follow what's going on.
Comment 3 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-07-05 14:36:33 UTC
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of  gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
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