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Option to Auto-Activate Find My Mouse On Wake

Open aerogems opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Add an option to have Find My Mouse automatically activate for a configurable amount of time after waking the monitors or system from sleep. Turning off after the designated period of time.

Scenario when this would be used?

Anywhere people may have difficulty finding their mouse cursor on multiple large monitors after waking the monitors or computer from a sleep state.

Supporting information

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aerogems avatar May 23 '23 21:05 aerogems

This is a new request, because the one here (https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/16371) was closed, but should have stayed open. I add more information why that feature is so useful and should be really considered with high priority. :)

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Activate the mousefinder automatically after a specified time of mouse-non-activity and deactivate it after a specified amount of time automatically then as well. This is a game-changer for any office worker with multiple or large screens!

There was a utility for MacOs which did exactly that.

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See also a video here shortly explaining the options of such a solution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CuQ0dgugjc

Optional: allow also a shortcut in addition, which would double as a mouse-highlighter (no need to have two different shortcuts for one function).

Scenario when this would be used?

When using large screens that would be hugely beneficial not to need to shake the mouse or press keyboard shortcuts to show the mouse!

rpnfan avatar Dec 22 '24 18:12 rpnfan

There have been similar requests from time to time, please consider adding that feature!

rpnfan avatar Jun 25 '25 10:06 rpnfan