GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 783389
Option to show a visual indication (e.g. circle) for the mouse pointer when clicking
Last modified: 2021-07-05 14:36:33 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".
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.
(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.
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