Highlight mouse cursor

[joaoherberto]

I use screencast for tutorials and would really like to have the cursor highlighted during the screencast. Is there anyway to do that from this application?

[ghost]

hi, I believe that it can be done, by intercepting the mouse position every N milliseconds and highlighted that by designing a circle around or other mark; but at the moment I'm redoing the UI of options so if anyone wanted to help ...

[joaoherberto]

Would love to help, but my coding knowledge is not much to offer. But of all of the screen recording options in Linux, this is by far the best app out there!

[thankjura]

+1 for Highlight mouse cursor on click event

[tobias47n9e]

I am wondering if it would be better to make a separate extension for mouse highlighting. Not everyone needs the feature and those that do, might sometimes want to use a different screen recorder.

Edit: Also there is the added complexity of getting this to work in a Wayland compatible way. I asked in the Gnome IRC and there is currently no API for a shell extension to change the mouse cursor. That means that someone would first have to work on exposing this to the shell interface.

[tobias47n9e]

This is an early prototype of an extension that can highlight the cursor: https://github.com/tobias47n9e/MouseHighlight

[aurovrata]

I used Gnome Tweak Tool to change the cursor to the redglass theme, its a big fat red arrow that changes to a horizontal arrow when hovering over links.