Virtual Cursor and Cursor Protection

During screen sharing, the interviewer sees your cursor but not the overlay. A cursor that drifts into an empty corner of the screen and clicks on something looks suspicious. There are two modes for this: the virtual cursor and cursor protection.

Virtual cursor

Toggle it with Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + V. The system cursor freezes in place, and your mouse moves a separate drawn cursor instead. You can use it to click in the overlay and teleprompter, scroll, and drag or resize windows. The whole time, the interviewer sees a cursor that doesn't move.

• It only works during a meeting. If the overlay is hidden, it opens. Hiding the overlay with Ctrl/Cmd + B turns the cursor off.
• While the virtual cursor is on, you can't click in other apps: all mouse input goes to Sobes windows.
• The drawn cursor is hidden from screen capture only if screen recording protection is on in Settings → Application → System.
• On macOS, the app needs the "Accessibility" permission.

During area screenshots

When you take an area screenshot with Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + H or a quick action, the virtual cursor turns on for the selection and turns off after the capture. This lets you select an area without moving the visible cursor. Esc cancels the selection. You can turn this off in Settings → Controls → Mouse & cursor.

Cursor protection

Toggle it with Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + Z. The mouse works as usual, but over the overlay the cursor looks as if the overlay weren't there: it keeps the look of the window underneath and doesn't change shape over overlay buttons. Clicks and scrolling within the overlay still reach the overlay, and the overlay doesn't take focus away from the call app.

• To have protection turn on by itself every time a meeting opens, enable "Always keep cursor protection on" in Settings → Controls → Mouse & cursor. With this setting, protection comes back on its own after the virtual cursor, window click-through, or an area screenshot.
• Protection can't run together with the virtual cursor or window click-through (Ctrl/Cmd + W): turning one on turns the other off.
• While the overlay is hidden with Ctrl/Cmd + B, protection is paused and comes back with the overlay.

The status HUD in the corner of the screen shows whether the virtual cursor and cursor protection are currently on.

Limitations

Both modes may not work in virtual machines (VirtualBox, Parallels, VMware, etc.) or with some mouse drivers.