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What is a Follow-Cursor Highlight?
A follow-cursor highlight is a glow, ring, or circle that stays locked to the mouse pointer and moves with it, keeping the cursor easy to spot at all times.
A follow-cursor highlight is a highlight whose defining behavior is that it tracks the pointer continuously. Rather than appearing only on clicks or fading after movement, it remains attached to the cursor and travels with every motion. This continuous tracking is what makes it dependable for guiding an audience: the marker is always exactly where the pointer is.
The term emphasizes the follow behavior to distinguish it from event-based effects. Click highlighting appears only when a button is pressed, and a mouse trail lags behind the pointer as a fading streak. A follow-cursor highlight does neither; it sits on the live pointer position. It is essentially the same idea as a cursor spotlight, just named to stress that it follows the cursor in real time.
Follow-cursor highlights are ideal for demos, lectures, and recordings where the pointer must stay findable throughout. Limelight implements exactly this with its cursor spotlight, a soft glow that follows your pointer and toggles on with ⌃⌥1. Running as a macOS menu-bar overlay, it keeps the highlight locked to your cursor on top of any app, alongside any recorder or meeting tool.
Why Limelight
- ▸A follow-cursor highlight stays attached to the pointer and moves with it continuously.
- ▸It does not wait for clicks or lag behind like a trail.
- ▸It is essentially a cursor spotlight, named to stress real-time following.
- ▸Limelight cursor spotlight follows the pointer via hotkey ⌃⌥1 over any macOS app.
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FAQ
- Does a follow-cursor highlight react to clicks?
- No. It tracks the pointer continuously rather than appearing only on clicks. Limelight provides this with its cursor spotlight.
- Is a follow-cursor highlight the same as a cursor spotlight?
- Effectively yes. Both stay on the live pointer; the name simply emphasizes that the highlight follows the cursor.