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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: + shaped mouse pointer in Safari's address field
Date: 11 Jan 2015 14:20:52 GMT
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On 2015-01-11, Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> wrote:
> On 2015-01-11, Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
>> I noticed this in Yosemite, but don't recall seeing it in previous
>> versions.
>>
>> If you press the option key when the mouse pointer is in the address
>> field (the one where you enter a URL or search item) in Safari, it
>> changes to a + shape.  Anyone know why it does this?
>
> Confirmed that it does this, but no I don't know why.

See my reply to the OP.

> I wonder if this is the source of some of the "cursor disappearing in
> Yosemite" complaints I've come across.

That's unrelated. It's a default text selection feature, as I explained.

> When I'm running Amadeus Pro, the mouse cursor does change when over
> a sound track, and I've noticed that since moving to Yosemite, it
> sometimes doesn't revert to a normal cursor when moving away from that
> app.  Only very occasionally, and I haven't seen it in a while (since
> 10.10.1 came along? - dunno).

As I explained in Alan's "disappearing cursor" thread, applications can
control the cursor in Mac OS X and do sometimes fail to restore or set
the cursor back to what it was supposed to be, due to bugs in said
applications. While it's always possible that bugs exist in the core OS
regarding the setting of the cursor, it's less likely. Very often, it is
the application itself that is responsible for the behavior.

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