Hi Scott, and sorry for the long delay.I could not reproduce this. On a clean Debian 13 install with cinnamon 6.4.10-2 I enabled "Show position of pointer when the Control key is pressed" and the animation plays every time, with both the left and the right Control key, on the desktop and over a window. I also instrumented Cinnamon to count the animations, so this is not just me failing to spot
them.
One thing worth ruling out: the effect is deliberately subtle — a pale blue circle that fades out in under a second — so it is easy to miss, especially against the blue default wallpaper. Does anything at all flash around the pointer when you press and release
Control on its own? To dig further I would need to know:- Are you running the X11 session or the Wayland one (which is experimental in 6.4)?
- Any display scaling, or more than one monitor? - Does the switch stay on if you close the Mouse panel and open it again?- Does it make a difference with a plain single tap of Control, with no other key held?
Tagging this moreinfo in the meantime. Thanks, Fabio
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