highlighting sometimes hidden behind dialog windows, and many thanks for a nice utility,

[newbie-02]

clicking the green 'code' button in the github window
a dialog or info window pops up where the highlighting
together with the cursor stays 'above' the window, visible.
Different clicking e.g. firefox'es menu a dialog appears
where the cursor stays visible, while the highlighting
hides behind the layer of the dialog.
Observed in actual ubuntu with GNOME and Kali with
XFCE4 desktop.
Hope someone will like to improve and hope it's not too
difficult.
And again, thank you very much, very useful utility. :-)

[newbie-02]

add. observation: screen recording with e.g. 'obs' using
'Screen Capture (XSHM)' gets the highlight, and one can
cut the window which one wants by arranging recording
area and screen, but it's slow as big areas are captured
and encoded. The other - better - option to capture only
the wanted window with 'Window capture (Xcomposite)'
works better in all respects, alas doesn't show the highlight.

Assume there is some hierarchy of layers, and would like
it very much if highlight-pointer can be adjusted where to appear.

[silnarm]

I would have thought Window Managers would make this impossible to fix (for everyone, everywhere).

But I had a play around, got nowhere; so had a read around, and found the Composite Overlay Window (doc).

So I created the cursor window on the overlay intead of the root window and it worked, shows above everything.

With some rather unfortunate caveats though. Opacity doesn't work, and there is terrible 'lag' when moving the mouse (refresh lag, draws at new position pretty quickly but does not 'undraw' old ones at the same rate, leading to trails).

My uneducated guesses are that the opacity thing might be fixable and the refresh lag not so much, likely related to how the overlay is implemented :-( Also, I didn't test if it actually shows up on screen recordings, because it looked so bad anyway.