BSD Ports

x11/highlight-pointer 1.3 OpenBSD

highlight mouse pointer using a dot

System
OpenBSD
Repository
OpenBSD ports
Maintainer
Thomas Frohwein <[email protected]>
Last update
Commit
c41801f30d
Categories
x11

Description

Highlight mouse pointer/cursor using a dot - useful for presentations, screen sharing, ...

To quit the program press Ctrl+C in the terminal where you started it, or (p)kill the process.

Features

  • 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

Install

Binary package:

pkg_add highlight-pointer

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/x11/highlight-pointer && make install

Dependencies

Build dependencies 1

No port depends on this one.

Commit history 2

DateCommitCreditsLog message
c41801f30d thfr missed cvs rm of the patch; fix build
a9f0698ca4 thfr update to highlight-pointer 1.3