Any option to make the cursor constantly visible?

Good evening!


TMI Mark: between this and TMI End is info for people who are most interested in details, but not necessarily needed to solve the problem.

So this is no more than a nuisance, but I am a user of f.lux which is a neat tool to keep your mac screen colours to a setting that is good to the eye taking in consideration the time of day and my current environment, much like Apple's own Night Shift in iOS.

I believe is that f.lux probably uses a reference point (say, a dark point reference level) as data to keep the screen in sync with, well, everything, and when there's no readable reference available on screen to balance black and white it goes crazy, colouring (for example) the white spots in a YouTube video or Netflix stream – which I think might be unreadable by f.lux – in a pink Keynote Alpha feature-like mess. Again, the reason is just what I think is happening, but the problem happens for sure. If the cursor moves, the split second it shows up fixes the bad spots.

TMI End

Is there a way, either by Apple's settings or by changing the code that can keep the cursor always visible? I know f.lux should be the one to fix this, but I would like to take care of this myself while they don't.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11), 13-inch, Mid 2014

Posted on Nov 28, 2016 2:16 PM

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Nov 28, 2016 3:30 PM in response to BobTheFisherman

Interesting. F.lux's job doesn't directly interfere with the cursor though, and in fact it is expected behaviour of macOS to hide the cursor when presenting anything fullscreen, it is really only a nuisance for this circumstance. Is there anything you might have changed then? It'd probably do the job for me!


Here's info on the app, if of interest: https://justgetflux.com/

Dec 1, 2016 2:36 PM in response to Guilherme Aquino Moresco

f.lux either needs to disable when in fullscreen or behave in a better way.

Check their forums as others must have the same problem & issues never get fixed until there is a critical mass of people complaining.


In the short term it may be possible to use the css cursor property on the video element.

You can specify your own custom css styles via your own style sheet (Safari Preferences > General).

Some examples of the cursor at…

http://webdesign.about.com/od/examples/l/blstylescursorexamples.htm#default


Frankly it is probably more work than actually fixing f.lux but you may be able to force it to remain visible when over the video element. I haven't tried it because it is a pain to try to style full screen elements. Ask for help on f.lux or web developer forums too.

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