Permit the mouse to be hiden in the view produced by Magnify

[haikupr]

I very recently used Magnifier to closely examine a rendering bug in Terminal and found the use of the magnifier difficult because the enlarged mouse pointer was always in my way: one fourth of the view was useless because it is covered by the pointer. Could it be possible to add an option that would hide the mouse pointer in the magnified view? That would be very helpful.

[humdinger]

As a work-around that should work for most situations. Hover the mouse pointer over the area you want to inspect, while keeping the focus on the Magnify window. Press ALT+I for "Stick coordinates". Now the Magnify window will always show that area and you can move the mouse pointer out of the picture.

Often it's also enough to make the Magnify window larger and park the mouse pointer beside the interesting area, which is still visible in the larger Magnify window...

[haikupr]

This trick does not work for me: when the mouse is over the window to be inspected, Magnify has lost focus and the inspected window receive the ALT-I event. I suppose this is because I use "focus follow mouse".

[humdinger]

Does too. :)
You just grab the Magnify window by the window tab and place it such that the mouse pointer is roughly over the area that interests you. You let go of the Magnify window, press ALT+I, and move the Magnify window out of the way.

Not saying this enhancement ticket oesn't have merit. Just saing there's a workaround...