Capturing the real cursor

In a screen capture, the cursor is not capture (either cmd-shift 3 or 4) ; I know it is possible to force some cursor, but it is not the real (sometimes custom) cursor.


That's a (small) problem to write documentation, as the cursor image has to be added "a la mano" in a drawing program.


Does anyone know if there is a solution to this ?

Answered by goldsdad in 225787022

Preview app can do a timed full-screen capture which includes the real pointer. You can set a keyboard shortcut, e.g. Shift+Cmd+5, in System Preferences. Preview will need to be open when you use the shortcut, but you could also make a shortcut to a Service that opens Preview, of course. Or even make a shortcut to a Service that opens Preview if not already open, and then does the capture.

Accepted Answer

Preview app can do a timed full-screen capture which includes the real pointer. You can set a keyboard shortcut, e.g. Shift+Cmd+5, in System Preferences. Preview will need to be open when you use the shortcut, but you could also make a shortcut to a Service that opens Preview, of course. Or even make a shortcut to a Service that opens Preview if not already open, and then does the capture.

QuickTime Player's screen recordings include the cursor...


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Excellent !


A detail : when I enter the shortcut in system preferences, it says cmd-shift ( instead of 5 (probably because it's french keyboard ?)

That's strange. I'm using a UK keyboard and user locale UK, and the shortcut is correctly displayed as ⇧⌘5.

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