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MHalo

Super simple mouse halo application to find your cursor on large monitors implementing the layer-shell protocol.

MHalo uses a layer-shell overlay to darken the screen and show a bright circle around the mouse cursor.

After you have found your cursor, any mouse click will close mhalo.

Screenshot of mhalo

Limitations

MHalo may require you to move your cursor to be informed of its position.

Requirements

Runtime

  • pixman
  • wayland (client and cursor libraries)

Compile time

  • Development packages for all the libraries listed under runtime.
  • wayland-protocols
  • tllist

Building

meson --buildtype=release build
ninja -C build
sudo ninja -C build install

Reused Works

  • wbg: Thanks to dnkl for the development of the wallpaper application wbg. It's code was a very solid foundation for me to build this tool.

License

MHalo is released under the MIT license.

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