Say you have multiple monitors/displays/screens, and you use keyboard shortcut a lot. You organize apps using something like Spectacle and you switch between apps using shortcut like cmd + tab. Then you may want to have you mouse cursor follow your app switching, especially between different displays, because:
- Some apps simply cannot be fully controlled using keyboard, so you have to fall back to trackpad or mouse occasionally.
- Your screens are huge!!! You don't want to move you mouse cursor little by little across several displays.
And you want it automatically!! Then CatchMouse is not enough.
I looked around and found no existing good solutions, which is kinda surprising. This simple feature should have been proposed by someone a long time ago!
So I created my own solution using applescript. When I switch between two windows in different displays, my mouse follows automatically, to the center of the new window.
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It's not a universal solution; you have to adjust the code to your own situation, especially the coordinates.
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Install cliclick for moving mouse cursor.
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Save your applescript as Stay Open application.
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Give the application assitive access, in the System Preference.
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This applescript solution is doing active polling under the hood, so it isn't super efficient. It uses about 5% of one of my 4 cores (actually 2 hardware cores with hyperthreading).