Comments on: Cursorcerer: Hide Your Cursor at Will

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:18:40 +0000

Nice! I can also see this being useful when using other full screen video apps, VLC, Democracy, etc. The cursor is always in my damn way.

By: dfbills

dfbills — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:56:37 +0000

Thank you very much. I’m using this with my MacMini on my HD TV.

By: RTouris

RTouris — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:50:39 +0000

Kudos for this one, some people suggested that tapping any key while zoomed in works just as well, but it won’t and never has for me afaik so your implementation seems to be the sole solution to this issue. Thanks!

By: Rees Maxwell

Rees Maxwell — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:55:15 +0000

Yea!! I, too, am always trying to manage getting the most zoom with my cursor being just below the movie .. and now you’ve solved it! Bravo!!

I don’t see a paypal link here to chip in beer money. Consider it!

By: hansi

hansi — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 06:33:19 +0000

just wanted to say thanks for this, it works amazingly well!

By: Joe Bloe

Joe Bloe — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:23:23 +0000

You have answered my prayers. I’ve wanted this for a LOOOOOOONG time, now when I put my wacom pen back in its holder to type, the cursor disappears after 3 seconds.

YOU ARE THE SHIT!

By: Charles Dostale

Charles Dostale — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:31:05 +0000

The ability to toggle this via an AppleScript would be awesome. I control Apple’s DVD Player with AppleScript to be full screen and turn off the controller. To also hide the cursor would be Sweet.

By: Katsuyuki Namba

Katsuyuki Namba — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 07:37:54 +0000

At last! I found the great solution! Thanks a lot!

By: Bas

Bas — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:23:55 +0000

It doesn’t stick… For me… I need to activate the control panel AND click on the slider to have the functionality restored… It then works some time… Not sure what makes it stop. But it doesn’t survives restarts…

if it would do that too it would be perfect…

i have al the latest and gratest os updates

By: Michæl

Michæl — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:03:57 +0000

I too have been looking for this for a long time, but could never find anything through message boards or googling.

1) Get the word out there! Other people might not know what search terms to use either.
2) Add a donate button. This is worth $5 to me, and maybe to some other people.

By: Michæl

Michæl — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:14:58 +0000

Actually, as a further comment—I’d like to recommend a keystroke for people to use. The “clear” button on the number pad. Not sure what this key does in Mac OS X; it doesn’t seem to clear anything at all. Macbook users can access this with Fn+6. If you are like me, then you like your keyboard shortcuts to make sense, and I can think of nothing more fitting for the “clear” button than to make the mouse disappear.

By: David

David — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:15:41 +0000

Thanks this is a big help to me, just last Friday night I was showing zoomed video on a big screen and annoyed at the damn mouse pointer.

FYI: Minor possible bug: after install I opened the preference pane and in the hot key window it said “ctrl-option-k.” I then exited system preferences and tried the hot key combo; it did not work. I went back to the preference pane and this time the hot key window said “⌥⌃K.” I exited preferences & this time it worked.

By: askii

askii — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:25:13 +0000

Cheers for this!

I’ve written a script to autoload a QuickTime on startup, and go full-screen (for a video screening in an exhibition space).

Previously, half the time the cursor vanished, half the time it hung around. Irritating.

With this however, the little bugger is out of sight for good

By: Charles Dostale

Charles Dostale — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:18:33 +0000

Bas :

I have the same problem on one machine. The hot key toggles, but the cursor does not obey the “Always show cursor if moved” setting. Intel Mac Mini. In my case I am loading DVD Player at login. I wonder if the cursor hiding in DVD Player is interacting with Cursorcerer.

By: steve

steve — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:05:30 +0000

thanks for a great product.

By: Drew

Drew — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:41:55 +0000

Wow, I absolutely LOVE this, but I find that no matter how many seconds I set it for, the “Hide Idle Cursor After:” setting hides the cursor after a random amount of time, usually around 15 seconds, sometimes more, sometimes as little as 8! Other than that one little quibble, though, this little add-on is the absolute BEST, and I think we should all nominate it for the upcoming MacWorld Reader Awards!! Write to: Philip Michaels pmichaels@macworld.com to nominate it!

By: studio910

studio910 — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:45:40 +0000

i am not worthy …

may your guinness never be headless or empty.

tanx, man.

By: anthony

anthony — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:29:19 +0000

Somehow or another I have turned into the go to tech guy everytime we start a new season of Between the Lions. After finding this golden nuggett of tech lovelyness I wont be waiting but sending it to all of the cast and crew. Wow! Big big thanks.
anthony
aka
“Lionel”
Between the Lions

By: gustav

gustav — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:22:37 +0000

I love Cursorcerer, the best mouse app on mac os x.

By: Personman

Personman — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:58:53 +0000

I’ve been looking for this for a long time. Thanks!

By: MacManKind

MacManKind — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:12:37 +0000

You rock! May your ancestors smile upon you and the Fates be most kind to you. Hiding the mouse cursor is a great service to MacManKind.

By: Joe Bloe

Joe Bloe — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:17:27 +0000

Hey I love Cursorceror, I have it set to disappear after 3 seconds. But when I reboot, it doesn’t do it anymore until I go into the preference pane and alter the timing slightly to 2 or 4 seconds.

Is there a way to have it permanently automatically hide after 3 seconds, and last through reboots, without ever having to go back into the preference pane?

By: Ton Hermans

Ton Hermans — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:28:33 +0000

I use a mac mini with keynote as a player and hide the menubar with menu bar tint (http://www.manytricks.com/blog/?id=21). By making the menu bar black it only shows up when I move the cursor above it. Every nigh I do a reboot for my system, but after a reboot the cursor is always on the left up corner, and Cursorcerer doesn’t work yet, I first have to click on the prefernce panne to activate it? “”What I need for a perfect presentation machine is Cursorcerer to hide the mouse after a reboot.”"” Or a script witch moves the corsor after a reboot? Maybe I can activate Cursorcerer with the login pane.I would be very happy with a tip.

By: Wally Rodriguez

Wally Rodriguez — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:58:11 +0000

Hello:

Just trying your utility with a ModBook Mac (tablet mac) that I just received. It’s great because it allows me to forget that there is a slight offset of the pen. I have a request to keep the cursor hidden at all times as well as one to allow the utility to work after a reboot, without having to go to the control panel.

Great job.

Thanks!!

By: Julien

Julien — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:49:05 +0000

Hi,

I’ve been looking for a way to look at those flash embedded movies without my cursor being in the way (as you described)
just perfect! thanks for the tool!
grtz,
Julien

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:05:43 +0000

FANTASTIC application. But I am running into the issue with reboots. After a reboot on a Tiger machine the cursor doesn’t hide until I go into the cursorcerer pref panel and click on the timing slider.

By: Tobeon

Tobeon — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:20:11 +0000

Brilliant app thingy! Thank you very much! ^_^

By: jack

jack — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:04:39 +0000

I can’t seem to get it to work using Photoshop, which is what I really wanted this app for. Any reason why PS seems to thwart Cursorcerr.

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:35:02 +0000

I’m with Jack - getting it to function in Photoshop is my number one wish. Just got my Modbook also, and if the pencil cursor could be eliminated… I’d have to do a little dance.

By: Neko

Neko — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:56:49 +0000

Great little app, just one comment, do we really need to fill the console log with these lines?

2008-03-02 14:50:28.833 Cursorcerer[212] HIDING IDLE CURSOR!
2008-03-02 14:50:30.233 Cursorcerer[212] SHOWING CURSOR! autoShow: 1
etc…
etc..
etc.

By: Stefan Nowak

Stefan Nowak — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:02:28 +0000

Great little app!
Want to report a little bug:

Hide idle cursor after: NEVER
Always show

By: Stefan Nowak

Stefan Nowak — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:30:46 +0000

1) I like your application, it’s very handy!
2) I hereby file a BUG REPORT.

SETTINGS in my System Preferences Tab:
Hide idle cursor after: NEVER
Always show cursor if moved: FALSE

BEHAVIOUR
If I set it like this the program works correct, also after awaking from a system-sleep, but after the next reboot, Cursorcerer forgets its adequate behaviour, although the settings at com.doomlaser.cursorcerer.plist look correct.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT
MacOSX 10.4.11 + Cursorcerer 1.0

Please fix this! You can contact me via email. Please keep my address really private (as you promised next to the form).

By: Lele

Lele — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:42:26 +0000

Good app but I wish you didn’t write so much text to stdout. In fact, I use Cursorcerer at 1 second and I get a lot of console messages telling me that it is showing or hiding the cursor.

Could you please include a “verbose off” function in the preference panel? In that case my console will be much cleaner

thanks a lot and great job

cheers

(I just realized other people have commented on th same thing

By: Aderson

Aderson — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:10:37 +0000

I found very good the Cursorcerer, working with a Cintiq and it is very useful to me that design. But the hotkey is not working, is it because I’m using MacOS 10.5.2? Have a upadate the Cursorcerer?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:05:07 +0000

Love this tool, it is a lifesaver. However, everytime I restart I have to open up the preference pane and move the seconds selector a bit then back to have it work again.

By: Gustav

Gustav — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:54:06 +0000

Whem launch Cursorcerer Update ? sometimes Cursorcerer lost the capacity to hide the cursor.

Thanks

By: David Leitner

David Leitner — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:07:44 +0000

Great little utility. I have one suggestion. When I type on the keyboard, the cursor flickers back to life. Actually, this is exactly what I don’t want. I fill out forms frequently, and in so doing must position the cursor over a text field and click to enter new text. Unless I use the mouse to flick the cursor out of the way first, the cursor remains exactly where I’m trying to enter text, blocking my view of the entry field. Cursorcerer solves half of this problem. The other half would be solved if there were an option whereby the cursor only reappears when the mouse is moved (not also when the keyboard is tapped). Thank you very much for a terribly useful tool.

By: Gustav

Gustav — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:04:51 +0000

Hi again, Whem launch Cursorcerer Update ? sometimes Cursorcerer lost the capacity to hide the cursor.

By: Scott from Madison WI

Scott from Madison WI — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:29:37 +0000

Thank you! I’m watching the Olympics on my 17″ MacBook Pro, using ctrl & the two-finger scroll to zoom the video to fill the screen. The video is stunningly beautiful (I actually have to give Microsoft some credit for Silverlight and the great quality of the streamed video) but the darn pointer was in the center.

My first workaround was to have another Safari window have the focus and then I’d slide this other window to the edge of the screen to get it out of the way of the video window. Then by pressing the left or right arrow the pointer would disappear. However, I really wanted the video window to be the active window so that the spacebar would pause the video. I discovered Cursorcerer and it’s working great.