does Mouse Locator work in Mavericks?

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does Mouse Locator work in Mavericks?

Hi there,

I have three displays attached to my Mac Pro... will soon be running Mavericks.

Sometimes my mouse cursor is hard to locate, and I'd love to go back to using a little app called Mouse Locator. But I stopped using it a while back, after upgrading to Mountain Lion, and I'm leery of trying it with Mavericks... unless I hear from some users that it works.

I've written more than once to the company that came up with this app (2POINTSFISH.COM), asking about compatibility, and they haven't responded. Not a good sign!

Has anyone been running this with Mavericks?

Or running some other little app that will 'locate' your mouse cursor (Mouse Locator does it with a green circel) when you touch your mouse (the green circle then disappears).

Regards,

Malcolm

Posted on Dec 6, 2013 2:41 PM

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xnav

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Dec 6, 2013 3:35 PM in response to Malcolm Hamilton

This and others on the Mac AppStore.

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Dec 6, 2013 4:27 PM in response to xnav

Thanks very much xnav. Will give it a tryl

Regards, Malcolm

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jayxtee

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Jan 9, 2015 1:57 PM in response to Malcolm Hamilton

It works nicely for me in Yosemite, but needs to be reactivated after every new boot.

Anyone know how to make its activation stick?

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Mar 4, 2015 12:17 AM in response to jayxtee

Yes, I had the same issue in Mavericks and solved it by copying MouseLocatorAgent.app into the PreferencePanes Folder from another Mac where the reactivation at start-up still worked (hope you can still find this file on previous back-ups or older machines). Then I added MouseLocatorAgent.app to the Login Items in Users & Groups of the System Preferences. With this Mouse Locator starts when booting the Mac and I no longer need to click through the System Preferences to start Mouse Locator. Hope this works for you, too.

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jayxtee

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Mar 18, 2015 2:53 PM in response to carrera996

Sigh. Don't have an older system where I can find this file.

tnx

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Apr 4, 2015 9:01 AM in response to jayxtee

You can, after installing Mouse Locator, navigate to ~/Library/PreferencePanes, right click on MouseLocator.prefPane, select "Show Package Contents". Open Contents/Resources and you will see MouseLocatorAgent.app. Then go to System Preferences -> Users And Groups. Select your user and select "Login Items". Drag MouseLocatorAgent.app to your list of Login Items. This is working for me on Yosemite.

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