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Austin Au-Yeung edited this page Aug 30, 2026 · 2 revisions

Gestures

  • Enable C9 > Gesture Visualization to see what each gesture is doing.
  • For precise clicks, you can use a) grid cursor mode or b) standard cursor with a low cursor speed and high cursor acceleration.
  • The zoom fallback gestures can be used if an application does not interpret a regular zoom gesture correctly.
  • Scroll distance will not exceed the edges of the screen; this behavior can be used on the fly to perform a scroll gesture with a distance smaller than the configured distance.

Auto-hide

  • Use C9 > Auto-Hide Cursor Options to auto-hide the cursor in select locations. See Settings for more information.
    • Automatic restoration is cancelled if any cursor is manually reactivated. Cursor auto-hide will resume the next time any of the enabled locations is observed.
    • The standard cursor's last position is saved upon restore.

Standard Cursor

  • Behavior at the edge of the screen can be set with C9 > Standard Cursor > Screen Edge Behavior.
  • When using the Standard or Swapped control scheme, both numpad 5 and D-pad center can be used to initiate a long press and drag. It may be easier to use either the numpad or D-pad to initiate the long press and use the other pad to drag.
  • When using custom icons, the following should be noted:
    • The top left of the file corresponds to the cursor's position. A tight crop is recommended.
    • Cursor performance may be impacted by file size and cursor size. If you are experiencing performance issues, try a smaller cursor size and/or compressing the file.
    • Because the file is scaled to fit within a square box, a 1:1 aspect ratio would fit the best, but other aspect ratios can be compensated for by adjusting the cursor size.

Grid Cursor

  • Quickly navigate to the center of any cell in the current subgrid by pressing that cell's number followed by quick, successive presses of numpad 5.

Typing

  • Enable C9 > Developer Options > Ignore Numpad to allow typing while the cursor is activated. This may pair well with C9 > Standard Cursor > Control Scheme set to D-pad and C9 > Auto-Hide Cursor Options > Text Fields disabled.

UI

  • The ADB command wm overscan can be used to hide on-screen elements such as the status bar or navigation bar. The cursors will remain mapped to the physical display.

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