Those who do a lot of fine detail work may want to have the smallest possible cursor. Of course, the balance here may be different for different users.
Making the cursor a bit bigger can complement the Shake setting nicely. By making the cursor just a bit bigger to begin with, one doesn't have to engage quite as often with that (delayed) magnified cursor. This notion works because the default, it seems, is still the smallest possible cursor. If the cursor were a bit larger to begin with, you may not have to shake the cursor so vigorously or so often.Īnd that's the interesting visual balance I've been overlooking since El Capitan shipped last September.
The reason you may want to tweak things here is because there's a very short delay, about a second, from when you start shaking the mouse until the cursor is fully magnified.
(It's found in System Preferences > Accessibility > Display. With resolutions like this, it's all to easy to occasionally lose track of the cursor whether or not you have El Capitan's " Shake Mouse Pointer to locate" enabled. I myself have transitioned from a display that I thought was adequate (2560 by 1440) to one that is 3440 x 1440. As I found out.įor example, the current trend is towards displays with much higher resolution than we've ever had: 4K and 5K displays. However, the Accessibility preferences can go a long way towards customizing the Mac to suit your visual preferences in ways that you may not have explored. It sits out there in the nether regions beyond Time Machine and looks like something only people with certain handicaps would be interested in. One of the most overlooked System Preferences in OS X is, in my book, Accessibility. But there's more you can do with the cursor, and I am abashed that I didn't find this trick earlier. That's the ability to shake the mouse to magnify the cursor and make it more visible. OS X El Capitan introduced a long-awaited feature.
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