What is the mouse pointer called on mac os x snow leopard?

Probably spelled it that way because that is what I felt like doing to mine at that moment, since it decided to act up on its own, flying around the screen like something out of Harry Potter! Back under control now.
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Hello,
Back in the days of Tiger I used a little haxie called Might Mouse from Unsanity. This allowed me to tweak the click point of the mouse cursor. By default the click point of the mac's cursor is a few pixels within the cursor image itself.
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Pinpoint- Used to create animations around the mouse, and maybe custom cursors. But I'm ignorant of how to use quartz composer to make my own cursor to use in the app.
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*...Sadly, none of these seem to have the feature I was talking about. Please let me know if I missed something.*
However, thank you for your response!

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Also on various other hardware spec the same error.
The tool brush, pen or erase etc is not following the mouse pointer smoothly. There is a delay and if you attempt to draw quickly e.g a circle you instead get a jagged linepolygon shape. The writing is trailing the pointer by less than one second.
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TrevorBurroughs wrote:
Hi, I got a brand new 15" MacBook Pro a week or so back and had problems with the trackpad - when I tap to select an item the mouse pointer "bounces" off the item I'm trying to select. It happens randomly - not every time. Very irritating. Supplier got me a replacement machine, and it's doing the same thing! Is anyone else experiencing this issue? I migrated all my data and settings from my old Mac Pro (2011 model, also running Mavericks) via Time Machine - could that have an impact? Not using any non-Apple power supplies or other devices. Any input would be welcomed.
Migrating user from one machine to another should not be a cause of your symptoms.
Curious two machines in a row. Did this happen before you transferred data/ or di you check.
You have 14 days to return/exchange if you are not satisfied.
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This display can be very important as it shows the full address of the hyperlink. This can be particulary useful for checking on whether the link is bona-fida. For example; if you receive an email that looks like it is from a bank , hovering over the link will indicate instantly that the link is pretending to be something it isn't.
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After installing the addon, you will need to restart Firefox, then go to History and Restore previous session to get all your tabs and webpages back.
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If this helps, please say this question has been solved.

Is there a way to keep the mouse pointer in my window

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Just because you disagree with its usage does not make
it an invalid question. Suppose you had an
application dedicated to real-time monitoring of a
high-pressure system. In our hypothetical example,
accessing other parts of the system without first
properly "dismissing" the application could be
potentially hazardous - people could get hurt. In
this case, would it not make sense to make the
application "system-modal"? Furthermore, it would be
a convenience to the operator if the mouse pointer
were trapped in this critical application.
How would one go about trapping the mouse cursor
inside this application?Yes, it would make sense to make this application system-modal. And it would also make sense to not allow any other applications to run on the monitoring system. For such an application, then, it would occupy the entire screen and there would be no way to swap away from it to any other application. Which is what several people suggested for this rather non-critical application, I believe.
But in the ordinary case, where you are running on a system that does allow multiple applications to run, trapping the mouse cursor in a single application is bad manners and an alternate solution should be sought.

What is the mouse pointer called on mac os x snow leopard?

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