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  2. Cursor (user interface) - Wikipedia

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    Cursor is Latin for 'runner'. 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 ...

  3. Computer mouse - Wikipedia

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    A typical wireless computer mouse. 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 ...

  4. Pointing device - Wikipedia

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    Discrete pointing devices. directional pad – a very simple keyboard. Dance pad – used to point at gross locations in space with feet. Soap mouse – a handheld, position-based pointing device based on existing wireless optical mouse technology. Laser pen – can be used in presentations as a pointing device.

  5. Pointing stick - Wikipedia

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    A pointing stick (or trackpoint, also referred to generically as a nub or nipple) is a small analog stick used as a pointing device typically mounted centrally in a computer keyboard. Like other pointing devices such as mice, touchpads or trackballs, operating system software translates manipulation of the device into movements of the pointer ...

  6. Windows wait cursor - Wikipedia

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    Windows wait cursor. The Windows wait cursor, informally the Blue circle of death (known as the hourglass cursor until Windows Vista) is a throbber that indicates that an application is busy performing an operation. It can be accompanied by an arrow if the operation is being performed in the background. The wait cursor can display on programs ...

  7. Mouse keys - Wikipedia

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    Mouse keys is a feature of some graphical user interfaces that uses the keyboard (especially numeric keypad) as a pointing device (usually replacing a mouse ). Its roots lie in the earliest days of visual editors when line and column navigation was controlled with arrow keys . Today, mouse keys usually refers to the numeric keypad layout ...

  8. Mouse tracking - Wikipedia

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    Mouse tracking. 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 ...

  9. Spinning pinwheel - Wikipedia

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    Spinning pinwheel. The spinning pinwheel is a type of throbber or variation of the mouse pointer used in Apple 's macOS to indicate that an application is busy. [1] Officially, the macOS Human Interface Guidelines refers to it as the spinning wait cursor, [2] but it is also known by other names.

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