Universal Access / Locate Pointer toggle seems to do nothing

[savaged]

Distribution
NAME="Pop!_OS"
VERSION="20.04 LTS"
ID=pop
ID_LIKE="ubuntu debian"
PRETTY_NAME="Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS"
VERSION_ID="20.04"
HOME_URL="https://system76.com/pop"
SUPPORT_URL="http://support.system76.com"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://system76.com/privacy"
VERSION_CODENAME=focal
UBUNTU_CODENAME=focal
LOGO=distributor-logo-pop-os

Related Application and/or Package Version

gsettings
pop-shell:
Installed: 0.1.0158992546520.04ff5f374
Candidate: 0.1.0158992546520.04ff5f374
Version table:
*** 0.1.0158992546520.04~ff5f374 1001
1001 http://ppa.launchpad.net/system76/pop/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
1001 http://ppa.launchpad.net/system76/pop/ubuntu focal/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Issue/Bug Description:
From gsettings and 'Universal Access', the 'Locate Pointer' toggle doesn't appear to do anything.

Steps to reproduce (if you know):
From Settings and 'Universal Access', change the 'Locate Pointer' toggle option to enabled.

Expected behavior:
Would expect the mouse cursor to have a visual indication when a Ctrl key is pressed.

[timrichardson]

These steps do not reproduce the problem. For me, this setting always works.

[beppu]

@savaged I don't know if you use gnome-tweaks, but if you have animations disabled, pressing Ctrl to show the pointer is barely noticeable. Once I enabled animations again, it worked as expected.

[savaged]

Thanks, but I've switched distro since

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On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 at 21:44, John Beppu ***@***.***> wrote: @savaged <https://github.com/savaged> I don't know if you use gnome-tweaks, but if you have animations disabled, pressing Ctrl to show the pointer is barely noticeable. Once I enabled animations again, it worked as expected. [image: image] <https://camo.githubusercontent.com/55178d4263c2da9deb16c590f232b7bbda24595c/68747470733a2f2f692e6962622e636f2f594e6a334d68582f53637265656e73686f742d66726f6d2d323032302d30392d30342d31332d34322d30342e706e67> — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1073 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAA3O27ZSWQE7E2U6YB3C2TSEFGSVANCNFSM4NRWVZUA> .

[leviport]

As @beppu says, deactivating animations makes the pointer locator very subtle. Perhaps this was the issue all along. With animations turned on, I get the visual indicator as expected, so I will close this issue.