It works in Safari, Mail, and Firefox, but it doesn't work in the Finder.
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While it's not the most groundbreaking hint of all time, it could be seen as handy tip for when you want to take a screengrab and don't want the mouse visible. Simply hold down both shift keys and press the space bar. Voila -- the mouse cursor disappears. It reappears when you move the mouse.
It works in Safari, Mail, and Firefox, but it doesn't work in the Finder.
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Make the mouse disappear in some apps
Grab.app can do this regardless of what application you're using. (You can set a cursor type, including none at all.)
Make the mouse disappear in some apps
Doesn't work for me...
OS X 10.4.5
Oh, and I forgot to mention...
...I'm also using a MacAlly iMediaKey keyboard.
Make the mouse disappear in some apps
It sort-of works for me...
Make the mouse disappear in some apps
It's the standard behaviour for the cursor in front of text areas, if you move the text area with the up/down/left/right/space/shift-space key, the cursor will be hidden.
Make the mouse disappear in some apps
<spacebar> is a well-documented way of scrolling a window (i.e., within a web browser) down by a set increment (usually equal to one "page" of your window). Adding a <shift> to this keyboard command is like pressing <shift> while <tabbing> through fields in most apps...it simply reverses the direction (up instead of down).
Make the mouse disappear in some apps
Any program that accepts text input will hide the cursor as soon as you start typing. There is no magic key-combo for this, and certainly no reason to press both shift keys and the spacebar. In fact, doing so has the same effect as if you'd typed any other key on the keyboard. A "space" is typed and the mouse cursor disappears. Typing an arrow key works better and doesn't type an actual character. But I'm not really sure this "hint" is accurate, and at best simply describes behavior that's been around in the OS for quite some time.
Make the mouse disappear in some apps
Good point, ocdin*.
Make the mouse disappear in some apps
Cursor does not disappear for me on 10.4.7 and Safari when I type characters reading this hint. It does disappear with the arrow keys or the shift-spacebar as mentioned. Spacebar alone scrolls the screen down. Characters do nothing.
Make the mouse disappear in some apps
I'll second rofl, that this is standard behavior for text fields-- it's been around since Finder 1.0
Make the mouse disappear in some apps
Wait, since when does the mouse cursor even appear in screen captures? I press Apple+Shift+3 and all it saves in the image is my screen. no mouse cursor. |
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