Subject: Re: [Witch Talk] Witch 4.0 beta -- move cursor?

From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 16:24:05 -0800

On Feb 9, 2017, at 3:43 PM, Tom Hundt <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Now that I have my laptop at work set up between two big monitors, I'm spending half my life moving the cursor from one to the other.  It would be oh so nice if there were an option to move the cursor for me.  Perhaps to the top center or the middle of the switched-to app?  Or remember where it was the last time I switched off of that app?

We don't want to get into the game of guessing what a user wants to do with their cursor, and keeping a database of mouse locations would be a true nightmare. And there are problems to be managed: This is really only useful if the new and old windows differ in position by a huge amount, otherwise it seems like the cursor is just jumping randomly all over the screen - imagine switching between two apps that are side by side, and suddenly your mouse jumps up to the header of the switched-to app.

So to do it right, you'd need to invoke it via a separate hot key, only when you wanted it. And for that, there are lots of apps - our own Keymo will let you teleport the mouse to another display via hot key, for instance. Even better for your needs would be an app called Keyboard Maestro, which lets you send the mouse to the location of the frontmost window:

<https://keyboardmaestro.com <https://keyboardmaestro.com/>>

If you tied that an activation trigger of "When any application activates," you'd have what you wanted, but I think you'd soon find you don't really want it all the time, so better to tie it to a trigger. Keyboard Maestro is not a simple app, because it can do so many things ... but it seems it offers a feature that's basically what you're looking for.

In any event, because of the complexities of handling automatic mouse movement, it's not something we'll be adding to Witch.

regards;
-rob.

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From: Tom Hundt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 15:43:04 -0800 (PST)

Now that I have my laptop at work set up between two big monitors, I'm 
spending half my life moving the cursor from one to the other.  It would be 
oh so nice if there were an option to move the cursor for me.  Perhaps to 
the top center or the middle of the switched-to app?  Or remember where it 
was the last time I switched off of that app?

Apparently this is not a new idea: 
 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/app-switch-mouse-cursor-center-apps-mac/

Thanks