In a terminal, use this command: find-cursor -repeat 0 -follow -distance 1 -line-width 16 -size 16 -color red If you see an error, you probably need to install some X11 libraries: sudo apt install libx11-dev libxdamage-dev libxrender-dev libxext-dev You can ignore warnings (mostly related to docs).Inside the folder of this library, type make and sudo make install. It works for me in linux mint 19.3 MATE, Ubuntu 20.04, and 18.04.4 (tested both ubuntu versions on a vmware machine). I have found this workaround, based on an answer to a SE question and first suggested by a user on a Microsoft discussion forum. I am using Ubuntu 18.04, with the default desktop environment (the default desktop is called "ubuntu" on 18.04, it is based on gnome but preconfigured by canonical to resemble the discontinued "unity" desktop). Is there an application that can do this? Have some application display a bright-colored circle (or something else) at the position of the mouse pointer on and off in intervals.
Is there another image display tool in Ubuntu that can still display transparency in an X11 window?
The current version on ubuntu 18.04, however, shows an opaque checkerboard pattern instead. a png image with transparent pixels, it would show the screen content behind those transparent pixels. The tool 'display' from imagemagick had this property that when displaying e.g. An improvement over dragging around a terminal window would be to drag around an image of a mouse pointer with transparency around the mouse pointer. Today I have used a terminal window, resized it to the smallest possible size and told people 'look at the upper left corner of this window' while dragging that terminal window across the screen to point out the parts of the screen that I want to draw attention to. This is a known shortcoming of the Linux version: My mouse pointer is not visible to the people I share the screen with.
I'm doing screen sharing with Microsoft Teams on Linux. However, the solutions presented in the answers may still be applicable for other applications. This makes this question asking for a workaround obsolete. Edit: The problem in Teams has been solved by Microsoft since the question was asked: Teams screen sharing sessions now capture the mouse pointer also on Linux computers.
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