Playing Counter Strike makes the giant mouse pointer (there shouldn't be any mouse pointer at all neither the normal one nor this giant not-very-useful thing) randomly appear on the middle of the screen every 5-10 seconds when you move the camera.
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Disabling shake-to-find-cursor?
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Just so you know I do this all the time, and when it first happened it scared the cr*p out of me XD (Still does a little 
). Most commonly when moving through lots of windows in one space, or doing some design work. I mean, when you've lost your cursor (is that even common) and do it, it's fine, but when your concentrating hard and suddenly the cursor blows up.. El Capitan is certainly increasing my heart rate hahaha
). Most commonly when moving through lots of windows in one space, or doing some design work. I mean, when you've lost your cursor (is that even common) and do it, it's fine, but when your concentrating hard and suddenly the cursor blows up.. El Capitan is certainly increasing my heart rate hahaha 
If this really is the main selling point of El Capitan, Apple should just give up and close the shutters. We're still early, early in beta stage, there will definitely be bigger things on the horizon. Safari seems to always get a mention on each update, and iTunes might get a look in what with Apple Music coming. That said iWork and iLife haven't seen much work recently, so something could be happening there too.But why would you want to disable the main selling point of El Capitan?
After what happened with the green button in Yosemite, it wouldn't surprise me one bit to see no setting whatsoever to turn this feature off. The best you can do is submit feedback and hope.
Interestingly enough, the enlarging of the cursor is disabled while Screen Sharing, so that might actually serve as a workaround for some people.
Yea I think a disable option is important. Especially with people that has hand tremors like I do....
It is way too sensitive at the moment. My magic mouse seem to accidentally activate it all the time with normal mousing around.
Yes, go to Settings > Accessibilities and you can disable it there. (Got mine disabled! thank god)
...where? I just tried everything and nothing worked.
This is definitely not in Accessibility settings for me either. Running 10.11 beta 2.
This is where one would expect to find it:
Nothing under Accessibility > Display either? There is a slider for cursor size, maybe it's there?
^ Same here - I've looked through all of the Accessibility settings and found nothing.
I love it how any minute Apple come up with any new feature, there is immediately a chorus asking about how to disable it It has been almost a month that I am using El Capitan and I can't remember a single time that I have triggered this thing by accident. I also don't really see how this will be a problem for digital artists, unless mouse painting involves wiggling the cursor around like a maniac or executing the same motion over and over again.
It has been almost a month that I am using El Capitan and I can't remember a single time that I have triggered this thing by accident. I also don't really see how this will be a problem for digital artists, unless mouse painting involves wiggling the cursor around like a maniac or executing the same motion over and over again.I love it how any minute Apple come up with any new feature, there is immediately a chorus asking about how to disable it
Well, are you a digital artist or a gamer (specifically shooters)? I also think that this might be something people with certain disabilities are necessarily be comfortable with, so I think they should give an option here, considering their track record with accessibility settings.
Although I haven't tried it yet, I personally can't see a use for this. I use multiple display as well and I can immediately spot the cursor anyway. Just as you can spot a tiny fly or other insect on your display. I would consider this an accessibility setting in itself actually.
I trigger it by accident every 10 seconds. I guess I am to fast for the captain.
Ok, I agree that this should be an option in the accessibility settings. I think its a very nice feature to have (yes, I sometimes lose track of the mouse, especially after sleep). BTW, it does not trigger in games, as games usually bypass the OS cursor drawing anyway.
Can confirm, this does trigger in some games. I play a lot of games using the Steam client on Mac. I accidentally triggered this feature by accident many times while playing highly popular games including Team Fortress 2 and Garry's Mod (both made by the publisher of this Steam client, Valve), while even playing in a fullscreen window. For background, Team Fortress 2 has about 70,000 players online at a time (http://steamcharts.com/app/440). This new "accessibility" feature made games (in which this feature did trigger) virtually unplayable.
Either way, I think that the clear consensus is that 1) there does not appear to be an option to disable this yet but that 2) there does need to be some sort of option to disable "shake to find cursor" implemented in OX X 10.11.
There are a lot of random settings that have yet to be discovered in Yosemite that can probably be triggered via a "sudo defaults write com.apple.xxx" command in the Terminal. It's just a matter of time before somebody figures it out. I do agree it makes intuitive sense to have a toggle in the Accessibility pane off the Settings app. At the end of the day it's an accessibility feature for people with bad eyes who can't locate the cursor.
It may help to search the preference folders in ~/Library and /Library and review the plist files for something useful. There are several mouse/trackpad related settings there.
It's not that simple. Some settings won't show up in the plist files necessarily, especially for default behaviors. It takes a lot more probing to figure out what's hidden.
I know, but it's a starting point nonetheless. A full-text search could reveal something.
