mouse trails
The creation of repeating, trailing images of the pointer when it moves across the screen in order to make it more visible on passive matrix screens. See submarining.
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| On a passive matrix screen, mouse trails are left when an object, such as this pointer, is moved quickly across the screen. |
| (operating system) | mouse trails - A feature (usually of Graphical User Interfaces) which causes the mouse pointer to leave a
trail across the screen. This is done by keeping track of the
last eight or so (maybe configurable) pointer positions, and
only erasing the oldest. This means that at any time, there
may be up to eight pointers on the screen, but if the mouse is
still, they will all be in the same position, and so only one
will be visible. When the mouse moves, it appears to leave a
trail of pointers behind it, and this can dramatically
increase the visibility of the pointer when using LCD
screens. The older ones had such long persistence that a
single mouse pointer, when moving, tended to be completely
invisible, and on a cluttered screen, was very difficult to
find. | |