2kaleb/swcursor

Large software cursor for screen recording on X11

swcursor

This is a hack based fork of swcursor to replicate mouse overlays on linux.

This is a simple software cursor for X11 environments, it creates an overlay window with an (large) image that follows the cursor around. You will need to arrange for your normal cursor to be hidden, or screen record using ffmpeg's kmsgrab which often does not capture harware cursors at all.

Installation and Usage

You will need to have working development libraries for gtk-3.0, gdk and xlib.

$ make
$ ./swcursor

Usage: ./swcursor [-ir] [file...]

-i [file.png]
 load the png file as mouse cursor

-r [number]
set the refresh rate per seconds

Example:
/home/kdebre/swcursor/swcursor -i /home/kdebre/swcursor/cursors/pink.png -r 144

# A variety of cursors can be found in the cursors folder
# You can display any transparent PNG image you like for the cursor
$ ./swcursor cursors/cursor-large.png

For more details see https://github.com/andykitchen/swcursor