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Windows has a “snap to default button“ setting which does the same. Saves you a bit of movement on large screens, but since it jumps it doesn’t lead the eyes w

• simoncion 6mo ago
  > ...but since it jumps it doesn’t lead the eyes which makes is disorienting. What happens when you enable "mouse pointer trails"? Or is that a feature that died like a decade or two after manufacturers stopped using the extremely slow LCDs that made use of the feature all but mandatory on machines that used them?
  • ano-ther 6mo ago
    That could actually make it work -- but I just tested and, sadly, the cursor still gets teleported without a trace.
    • simoncion 5mo ago
      Sad! I wonder if more than a handful of people at Microsoft know that the "cursor trails" feature still exists.
• piekvorst 6mo ago
  I’ve never heard of that feature in Windows! Unfortunately, that means I can’t judge it. But I have used mouse warping in other environments and I’ve never been caused disoriented. It never occurred to me that such a problem is possible. In general, it seems like this problem can be avoided by 1) moving the mouse only to changed states of the screen, 2) only if they’re small enough to be easily observable, and 3) only for repetitive tasks.