I'm happy to see that I'm not the only one who does this. I also enable the find the cursor feature because with multiple monitors I tend to squint to hunt for it otherwise.
I can think of some Portal puzzles in particular where timing is important, and you need to hold your aim but wait to click until something happens somewhere else on the screen (so the place you're clicking is not the same as the place you're looking).
I think the same thing applies to e.g. recording network activity in Chrome dev tools. My eyes are on the page to see when the thing I'm interested in finishes loading; my mouse cursor is on the button to stop recording.
It's not a super common pattern, but probably common enough that it would be annoying not to be able to do it.
I find waiting around is ONLY necessary with acceleration enabled. In my opinion at least, acceleration ruins trackpoints. With no acceleration, one simply applies the correct amount of pressure and the cursor will be wherever it needs to be within a second or so.
I find that I unconsciously make the cursor track my eyes. I don't know if this falls into the realm of muscle memory but it makes using the mouse a lot less effort because the I am usually looking at where I am about to click.
The cursor isn't always present, just when you need it...
How does this work with a physical mouse? Does the cursor reappear in the same spot on the screen, or what? Would someone using a physical mouse constantly be forced to reposition it?
If this gets traction please remember to allow hiding cursor if the user has full screened something! -- person trying to watch a video without a lil pointer in the way
I use the mouse trails and a desktop app for the "laggy following dot" on my workstation because, well because four 32" 4K monitors, you lose the darn cursor even with the "find my cursor" key.
How I do this without a trackpad and without moving, I don't know. I only notice when it doesn't work.
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