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Find my mouse feature enhancement #15044

Closed Terriblefate closed 2 years ago

Terriblefate commented 2 years ago

Description of the new feature / enhancement

I think the Find my mouse feature should be modified so that you can change the key that it uses when determining if it should highlight the position of the mouse.

For example make it so I can specify a specific key like alt key for example and maybe even the ability to change how it works such as changing it from pressing it twice to highlight mouse to long pressing it to highlight mouse.

Might be a good idea to also have a toggle to state if the specified key should be that exact key or not (for example right now CTRL works for both left and right CTRL but you should be able to toggle if you want only left or right CTRL key to provide the functionality rather than have it see both those keys as the same).

Scenario when this would be used?

It would be used in my case so I can prevent the mouse highlighting from toggling when I don't intend it such as when I read my visual novels since the skip text key in visual novels is usually always CTRL and is not configurable. By adding this feature I can change it to ALT key (or even better if the toggle to allow it to differentiate between left and right ctrl/alt keys is enabled the Right ALT) since that key is not normally used by me in that case for anything else like the CTRL key is.

Supporting information

The reason I am suggesting this is because I noticed it keeps highlighting my mouse when I use the CTRL key in visual novels to skip a bunch of text (since its a common keybind that is used in visual novels). Also most visual novels do not tend to enable game mode automatically out of the box which makes it so if I don't want the false positives to happen, I have to disable that feature in powertoys menu which is a pain since I would rather change it to another key that would not give false positive such as alt key.

Jay-o-Way commented 2 years ago

Strictly speakiing this is a duplicate issue, but this one has a clear use-case.

crutkas commented 2 years ago

/dup #14651

ghost commented 2 years ago

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!