Add mac-cursor-ring.lua: show the Mac pointer in the VNC mirror

macOS leaves the pointer out of the Screen Sharing framebuffer, and neither Remmina showcursor setting brings it back. A Hammerspoon ring around the pointer is a real window, so it gets mirrored.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Frank LevineandClaude Opus 5.5 committed 2026-09-27 13:49:12 -04:00
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-- Hammerspoon: draw a ring around the Mac pointer so it shows in the VNC
-- mirror on the Frame. macOS Screen Sharing leaves the pointer out of the
-- framebuffer; a real on-screen window is captured like anything else.
--
-- Install: brew install --cask hammerspoon, then in ~/.hammerspoon/init.lua:
-- dofile("/path/to/frame-control/scripts/mac-cursor-ring.lua")
-- Toggle: ctrl+alt+cmd+M. Polls the pointer position, so no Accessibility
-- permission is needed.
local SIZE, WIDTH = 34, 3
local COLOR = { red = 1, green = 0.2, blue = 0.2, alpha = 0.9 }
local ring = hs.canvas.new({ x = 0, y = 0, w = SIZE, h = SIZE })
ring:appendElements({
type = "circle", action = "stroke",
strokeColor = COLOR, strokeWidth = WIDTH,
radius = (SIZE - WIDTH) / 2,
})
ring:level(hs.canvas.windowLevels.cursor)
ring:behavior({ "canJoinAllSpaces", "stationary", "ignoresCycle" })
local last = {}
local function follow()
local p = hs.mouse.absolutePosition()
if p.x ~= last.x or p.y ~= last.y then
ring:topLeft({ x = p.x - SIZE / 2, y = p.y - SIZE / 2 })
last = p
end
end
frameCursorRing = { canvas = ring, timer = hs.timer.new(1 / 60, follow) }
local function show() follow(); ring:show(); frameCursorRing.timer:start() end
local function hide() frameCursorRing.timer:stop(); ring:hide() end
hs.hotkey.bind({ "ctrl", "alt", "cmd" }, "M", function()
if ring:isShowing() then hide() else show() end
end)
show()