[Mouse utilities] suggestion - add ability to use over Zoom

[ChrisJohnTaylor]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Love the new "Find My Mouse"

Over Zoom, if you are sharing full screen, the people watching the Zoom share will see the effect of "Find My Mouse". But if you are sharing a single app window (rather than the full screen), they don't see the effect.

It would be great if the effect could also be seen with single app window shares.

Chris

Scenario when this would be used?

While doing a screen share over Zoom. It would let you highlight where the mouse cursor is for others viewing the Zoom session.

Supporting information

No response

[franky920920]

I would say this is an #won't fix because is normal for Zoom and other video conference software to look the application you are sharing and the mouse utilities as two different applications.

IMO, the full screen sharing will be the only solution.

[ChrisJohnTaylor]

Wow, thanks Franky920920. I always wondered why these sorts of pointer-enhancement tools didn't work when sharing a single app window over video-conference. What you say is like a big lightbulb going off - "Of course!!"

I am a huge fan of Cursor Highlighter and would love to see the customization capabilities in it to be incorporated into Find My Mouse. (https://sites.google.com/site/boisvertlab/computer-stuff/online-teaching#h.6uj1pu69f7rt)

[franky920920]

I am a huge fan of Cursor Highlighter and would love to see the customization capabilities in it to be incorporated into Find My Mouse. (https://sites.google.com/site/boisvertlab/computer-stuff/online-teaching#h.6uj1pu69f7rt)

I'm linking you to #13808 for this suggestion :)

[a-cocco]

I just installed powertoy and tried find my mouse during a screen capture (shift-windows-s). Again, the function does not activate while the screen is blank for selection. In this situation often the mouse plays hide and seek :) I have 3 monitors and it would be very convenient to locate it. thanks, Andrea

[crutkas]

as @franky920920 pointed out, I don't think we can really fix this as zoom / teams would lock to an application. Even with our idea for presentation mode with showing mouse clicks, we don't think we can support the scenario of sharing a single app due to the fact they are actually different apps and the idea is to not over share data when you do a single app.