The aim of this app is to find your mouse pointer. Upon a key press, it will highlight its current location. To close the highlighter (the mouse spot), move the mouse pointer outside the circular area or click on it. The keyboard shortcut can be changed in a settings window.
Another feature is mouse jump. If the Mouse Finder mouse spot is visible, press the keyboard shortcut again to move the mouse pointer to the center of the next screen. If your setup has only one screen, the mouse pointer will be centered.
There is also a dedicated keyboard shortcut to immediately activate mouse jump. This shortcut can be changed in the settings window, too.
To get system-wide keyboard shortcuts, Mouse Finder uses JNativeHook.
On Windows, open the Start menu, click All apps, and scroll down to find Mouse Finder under the Thomas Kuenneth section.
When you run Mouse Finder on macOS for the first time, you will be alerted by the system that the app requires accessibility access. This is necessary to receive the keyboard shortcuts.
Once you have granted access, please quit and relaunch Mouse Finder.
- The macOS .dmg file currently has no nice background image; instead, you only see an alias to Applications and the Mouse Finder app. Drag the Mouse Finder icon onto the Applications alias as usual.
- As mentioned above, once you have granted accessibility access on macOS, you need to quit and restart the app.
- Currently, there is no Linux build. This will be fixed very soon.