Cursor Highlight When Pressing Control is Missing

[moriel5]

I'm not sure where this should be posted, however I believe that this is supposed to be part of the GTK theme.

When pressing Control (CTRL) on the keyboard, there is an option to highlight the cursor (on Windows you just get a grey circle outline that shrinks), which in the past used to have a sort of 360 degree "fading wave" (I'm not sure what to call it) effect, the same color as pressed buttons (although I personally would have preferred it to be either grey or white on the light theme, however that is beside the point).

I forget when this feature broke, perhaps around GNOME 3.38 (I forget, and I mainly use Budgie, however it broke on all Mutter-based DEs at the time), however it would be nice to have this with again, as it was (and still is) certainly quite the time saver when I forgot where the cursor was.

[jnsh]

Works in GNOME. You just need to enable it from accessibility options.

Fairly sure GTK can't do this, but it'd always be feature with the desktop environment.

[moriel5]

Hmm.., I'll test it again here on Budgie and return with results.

Update: Nope, not working here at all.

Distribution: Solus (fully updated)
DE: Budgie 10.6.1
GTK3: 3.24.33
Theme: Arc 20220405

And we currently have GNOME 42 components in the Solus repositories as well.

[jnsh]

Did you try enabling the accessibility option for locate cursor?

[moriel5]

@jnsh It already was enabled, since I had enabled it from the start, and just in case something was corrupted, I disabled and immediately reenabled it.

[jnsh]

And you have confirmed that the the cursor locator works with some other themes?

[moriel5]

I don't have any other 3rd party themes installed, however I can confirm that it does not work with either Adwaita or the "High Contrast" theme.

I guess I should file a bug report over the Solus Phabricator in that case?

[jnsh]

I'd test with whatever is the default Budgie theme, and report to budgie devs if the locator doesn't work when using it.

[moriel5]

That is a thought (I forget, however I believe that the default theme on Solus nowadays is Papyrus), however regardless of whether it works or not, I'll report it to them, both because it should ideally work with all themes, and because I prefer Arc (which used to be the default on Solus).

[JosephMcc]

however it broke on all Mutter-based DEs at the time

That's because it it now themed by the gnome-shell theme. So Mutter based DE's that aren't shell aren't getting theming for it.

[moriel5]

@JosephMcc Thanks, although this doesn't address the running of when it before for me, which was before it was themed by gnome-shell (probably during the 3.38 days).