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  2. Cursor (user interface) - Wikipedia

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    A cursor is a name given to the transparent slide engraved with a hairline used to mark a point on a slide rule. The term was then transferred to computers through analogy. Cursor on a slide rule. On 14 November 1963, while attending a conference on computer graphics in Reno, Nevada, Douglas Engelbart of Augmentation Research Center (ARC) first ...

  3. Vought F4U Corsair - Wikipedia

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    The Vought F4U Corsair is an American fighter aircraft that saw service primarily in World War II and the Korean War. Designed and initially manufactured by Chance Vought, the Corsair was soon in great demand; additional production contracts were given to Goodyear, whose Corsairs were designated FG, and Brewster, designated F3A.

  4. Caret navigation - Wikipedia

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    Caret navigation. A caret flashing in a text entry box. In computing, caret navigation (or caret browsing) [1][2] is a kind of keyboard navigation where a caret (also known as a ‘text cursor’, ‘text insertion cursor’, or ‘text selection cursor’) is used to navigate within a text document.

  5. Arrow keys - Wikipedia

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    Mouse keys is a feature that allows controlling a mouse cursor with arrow keys instead. A feature echoed in the Amiga whereby holding the Amiga key would allow a person to move the pointer with the cursor keys in the Workbench (operating system), but most games require a mouse or joystick. The use of arrow keys in games has come back into ...

  6. Computer mouse - Wikipedia

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    A computer mouse (plural mice, also mouses) [ nb 1 ] is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface. This motion is typically translated into the motion of the pointer (called a cursor) on a display, which allows a smooth control of the graphical user interface of a computer.

  7. Mouse tracking - Wikipedia

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    Mouse tracking (also known as cursor tracking) is the use of software to collect users' mouse cursor positions on the computer. [1] This goal is to automatically gather richer information about what people are doing, typically to improve the design of an interface. Often this is done on the Web and can supplement eye tracking in some situations ...

  8. Table of keyboard shortcuts - Wikipedia

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    F9 or Fn+F9 or Move mouse pointer to configured hot corner or active screen corner [24] [25] ⊞ Win works per desktop on Gnome 3+ Ctrl+x, then Ctrl+b: Show Windows: Show all windows of current application ⊞ Win+Tab ↹ Ctrl+F3 or F10 or Move mouse pointer to configured hot corner or active screen corner [24] [25] Ctrl+` Ctrl+x, then Ctrl+b ...

  9. Spinning pinwheel - Wikipedia

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    The spinning pinwheel is a type of throbber and a variation of the mouse pointer used in Apple 's macOS to indicate that an application is busy. [1] Officially, the macOS Human Interface Guidelines refer to it as the spinning wait cursor, [2] but it is also known by other names. These include, but are not limited to, the spinning beach ball, [3 ...