Highlight mouse pointer/cursor using a dot - useful for presentations, screen sharing, ...
(Walyand not supported, unfortunately. This is a small x11-only utility)
- Very lightweight, should work on any Linux/Unix system running an X server
- Should work with any software capturing/sharing the screen regardless if it shows the cursor (like Zoom) or not (like Skype)
- Set color for mouse button released and/or pressed state
- Highlight using a filled or outlined dot
- Auto-hide highlight and/or cursor after a time when not moving and re-show when moving again
- Global hotkeys for toggling cursor or highlighter and for toggling auto-hiding
Download the highlight-pointer binary from the releases page or see below to build yourself.
To build highlight-pointer you need the X11, Xext, Xfixes, and Xi libraries. On Debian/Ubuntu, just install these using
sudo apt-get install libx11-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev libxi-dev Just build the highlight-pointer binary using
make Just call the highlight-pointer binary and include command line options if you want to change color, size, etc. (see below).
To quit the program press Ctrl+C in the terminal where you started it, or run killall highlight-pointer.
Usage: highlight-pointer [options] -h, --help show this help message DISPLAY OPTIONS -c, --released-color COLOR dot color when mouse button released [default: '#d62728'] -p, --pressed-color COLOR dot color when mouse button pressed [default: '#1f77b4'] -o, --outline OUTLINE line width of outline or 0 for filled dot [default: 0] -r, --radius RADIUS dot radius in pixels [default: 5] --opacity OPACITY window opacity (0.0 - 1.0) [default: 1.0] --hide-highlight start with highlighter hidden --show-cursor start with cursor shown TIMEOUT OPTIONS --auto-hide-cursor hide cursor when not moving after timeout --auto-hide-highlight hide highlighter when not moving after timeout -t, --hide-timeout TIMEOUT timeout for hiding when idle, in seconds [default: 3] HOTKEY OPTIONS --key-quit KEY quit --key-toggle-cursor KEY toggle cursor visibility --key-toggle-highlight KEY toggle highlight visibility --key-toggle-auto-hide-cursor KEY toggle auto-hiding cursor when not moving --key-toggle-auto-hide-highlight KEY toggle auto-hiding highlight when not moving Hotkeys are global and can only be used if not set yet by a different process. Keys can be given with modifiers 'S' (shift key), 'C' (ctrl key), 'M' (alt/meta key), 'H' (super/"windows" key) delimited by a '-'. Keys themselves are parsed by X, so chars like a...z can be set directly, special keys are named as in /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h or see, e.g. http://xahlee.info/linux/linux_show_keycode_keysym.html Examples: 'H-Left', 'C-S-a'