CursorGlow

CursorGlow is a customizable cursor highlighting tool that adds a glowing effect around your mouse cursor. It features:

• Configurable highlight size, color, shape and broken animation
• Support for different cursor shapes (rounded square, circle)
• Adjustable inner and outer stroke widths
• Rotation effects
• Corner radius customization

The settings can be configured through JSON files:

• settings.json

Key settings include:

• highlight_size: Size of the glow effect (in pixels)
• highlight_color: RGBA color values for the glow [R, G, B, A]
• corner_radius: Roundness of corners for rounded square shape
• rotation: Rotation angle in degrees
• shape: "rounded_square" or "circle"
• outer_stroke_width: Width of outer highlight border
• inner_stroke_width: Width of inner highlight border
• animation_enabled: Enable/disable animation effects
• animation_speed: Speed of animations (lower is faster)

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/ren-chon/cursorglow.git

2. Install dependencies:

dnf install gtk4-devel cairo-devel
# or
apt install libgtk-4-dev libcairo2-dev

3. Python dependencies:

pip install PyGObject cairo

4. Run the extension:

python3 ./cursorglow.py