Add pointer to Magnus

[descendingnerdliness]

I use Magnus with it stretched across the top of my screen aand following my mouse so I can see the screen. It works very well, Thank You.
I made a small modification to the code (thanks for the nice comment) so it continues to work even when the cursor is over the Magnus window, and that works well also.
What I really need is for Magnus to display the or a pointer so I can click in the right spot on the exceedingly small icons on my display. I don't mind getting into the code, but I am a novice in python and entirely ignorant of gtk.
If it is something you do not want, perhaps you could tell me enough to give me a running start at the code.
Thanks for a very useful program.

[bgstack15]

This sounds like something I would like as well. Would it be possible to get a small square frame around the very center pixel, so where the cursor is pointing? That is, a highlight around the currently pointed-to pixel.

[stuartlangridge]

The concern with doing something like this is that a square around the central pixel is useful for people using Magnus as a way to zoom in on their desktop for, for example, accurate UI design. But it's not helpful for people using Magnus as an accessibility tool, where they're magnifying everything they look at so they can see it; drawing a rectangle, or a mouse cursor, over the top of the text they're trying to make bigger makes it difficult to see that very text.

This could be solveable by making the "show a highlight/mousepointer" option configurable via a menu, but then Magnus becomes a tool which one has to configure to work right, which I don't really want. So I'm still thinking about this.