Cursor

Why is my cursor a ball?


Why Has My Mouse Cursor Turned Into a Spinning Color Wheel? When your arrow turns into a colorful spinning “beach ball” or “color wheel”, your Mac is hard at work. In general, this is normal behavior.

Why is my cursor round?

Under “Common Selection Options” in the Tool Settings, I noticed that I accidentally chose “Drag” instead “Marquee”. If you choose “Marquee”, that circle will disappear and will change back to arrow as default. Hopefully this will be helpful if someone run into same issue of Circle Cursor in the Maya Viewport.

Why is my cursor changing shape?

All replies. FWIW, it’s perfectly normal. Whenever the cursor hovers over the edge of a window it changes to a dbl-arrow cursor to indicate you can resize the window by dragging the window vertically or horizontally.

Why is my cursor a circle instead of an arrow?

Method 1: Check the mouse & touchpad settings. On Cortana search, type mouse & touchpad settings then click on Mouse & touchpad settings. Under Related settings, click Additional mouse options. On Pointers tab, choose Normal Select then click Use Default.

What happened to my cursor?

Your mouse pointer may disappear if you are using the wrong mouse driver or it’s out of date. So you should update your mouse driver to see if it fixes your problem. If you don’t have the time, patience or skills to update the driver manually, you can do it automatically with Driver Easy.

Why is my cursor 4 arrows?

is the cursor you’re seeing, it’s intended for moving the program’s window to a different place on the screen. You might have gotten it by pressing the Alt key and the spacebar together, releasing them, and then pressing the M key.

How do I get rid of the circle cursor on my iPad?

If you use a mouse or trackpad with iPad, you can change the appearance of the pointer by adjusting its color, shape, size, scrolling speed, and more. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Pointer Control, then adjust any of the following: Increase Contrast. Automatically Hide Pointer.

How do I fix all cursor loading circle problems?

Go to the “Pointer Options” tab and uncheck the “Show location of pointer when I press the CTRL key” option. Click on “Apply” and “OK” to save the changes on your computer. Check if you are still facing the problem on your computer or not.

Why is my cursor round?

Under “Common Selection Options” in the Tool Settings, I noticed that I accidentally chose “Drag” instead “Marquee”. If you choose “Marquee”, that circle will disappear and will change back to arrow as default. Hopefully this will be helpful if someone run into same issue of Circle Cursor in the Maya Viewport.

How do I reset the cursor on my Lenovo laptop?

Hit the Ctrl + F6 keys at the same time and your cursor pops back up.

How do I fix my cursor on my Asus laptop?

The key F5 is generally used to disable the mouse so try pressing F5. If that doesn’t work then try (function key) FN + F5 or FN + F9 if you are using ASUS or FN + F7 if you are using an Acer machine. The keys might be different depending on the keyboard/brand.

How do I get my cursor back on Chrome?

Some of the major fixes that can help you solve the cursor disappearing issue in Chrome Browser include restarting Chrome, quite Chrome from Task Manager, switching to a canary browser, or enabling/disabling the hardware acceleration.

How do I reset my cursor on my HP laptop?

1) Press the Win key on your keyboard, then type “mouse“. When you see “Mouse settings“ appear in the menu above, press the up or down arrow on your keyboard to highlight it, then press Enter.

How do I fix my HP laptop touchpad?

Press the Windows button and “I” at the same time and click (or tab) over to Devices > Touchpad. Navigate to the Additional Settings option and open the Touchpad Settings box. From here, you can toggle the HP touchpad settings on or off. Restart your computer to make sure the changes take place.

What is four headed arrow?

Two arrows in shape of a cross, with two heads each pointing in opposite directions.

What is the cross cursor called?

Precision Pointer The precision pointer looks like a cross. You will really only see this pointer when you are trying to draw something.

How do I get rid of the weird arrows in Word?

I have solved it, however, by selecting all the text, right clicking (or going to the paragraph settings) and under the “general” settings, selecting “outline level”. That seems to remove the little arrows, and the collapse function for the whole document.

Why is iPad pointer a circle?

iPad doesn’t have a pointer, except a vertical bar in a text input field, or when an accessibility setting is enabled, or when an external keypad and mouse/trackpad is connected and in use. The circle shown as as a cursor indicates the area of touch that will occur.

Why is my iPad cursor a dot?

Under Accessibility, Assistive Touch, check to see if anything is activated under Pointer devices. That dot looks suspiciously like the mouse/trackpad screen cursor just enlarged to a ridiculous size, which can be adjusted under Accesibilility, Pointer Controls. Good Luck to You!

Why is my cursor buffering?

That circle means “working in background” and means that some other program is busy (or has requested to the system to inform you that it is busy). The only way to stop it is to find the program causing it and end the program (with Task Manager for example).

Why is my mouse acting weird?

If the mouse cursor only acts erratically or jumps around while playing a video game, the computer may not have enough RAM or video memory. If this is the case, it can result in reduced functionality of the mouse. If the graphics card in the computer is underpowered, the video game often experiences graphics lag.

How do I fix the cursor on my laptop?

In most cases, you’ll need to press and hold the Fn key and then press the relevant function key to bring your cursor back to life.

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