Is there a way of creating a sonar effect to find your mouse cursor on Ubuntu 18.04?
Ideally something that can be triggered via a keyboard shortcut.
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Possible duplicate of Reveal mouse pointer position – Fabby Jul 04 '19 at 23:03
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@Fabby that answer is for Unity not Gnome. – Snowcrash Feb 15 '20 at 00:12
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Typical Ubuntu desktop rubbish - something this simple was done on Windows years ago and it's still not easy on Ubuntu. – Snowcrash Feb 15 '20 at 00:14
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Show me a Windows screenshot with a flaming whirlwind of stars as shown in the other answer that is not really a duplicate... @Snowcrash 0:-) – Fabby Feb 16 '20 at 15:21
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This post shows a mouse 'sonar' effect, in lieu of the 'mouse trail' effect typically used in Ubuntu, using an xlib program courtesy of arp242 which you must make and compile. It can be mapped to a specific key.
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1I'm not make'ing, compiling and binding keys to get something like this working. Can you imagine if you had to do that on the Mac! – Snowcrash Feb 15 '20 at 00:11
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In Ubuntu 19.10 - use gnome-tweaks (sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool) - select Keyboard & Mouse - In Mouse section, select pointer location
pressing ctrl will show the mouse location when this option is activated!
