Don't bother with keyboard shortcuts or extra buttons - just lift and bang the mouse down to re-centre the cursor (on the primary screen, if you have a multiscreen setup).
Being old enough to have been brought up on ball mice this is a natural reaction when the pointer sticks and I now find myself doing this when the cursor disappears, as it seems to quite frequently with optical mice.
-- robilode, Dec 21 2007

"Bang the mouse down" to do anything seems eminently sensible. It may even evolve to double-banging for special functions.
-- phundug, Dec 21 2007


Brilliant. I love this.
-- hippo, Dec 21 2007


if you use a graphics tablet or possibly some of the earlier optical mice with the special pad, this happends as soon as you lift the mouse (puck) off of the pad (tablet).
-- webfishrune, Dec 21 2007


Not to be confused with pertussive cursor centering which re-centers the cursor when you cough.
-- phoenix, Dec 21 2007


Would software that predicts when there is going to be a problem and corrects it in time be known as a precursor?
-- egbert, Dec 21 2007


I know someone who shouts oaths before anything bad has even happened, he's definitely a precursor.
-- phundug, Dec 21 2007


If these oaths cannot be printed here, could they be considered percussive?
-- bungston, Dec 21 2007


PREcussive?
-- phoenix, Dec 21 2007


If I get tired of your puns and throw the mouse at you it might be concussive.
-- hippo, Dec 21 2007


<cough>
-- po, Dec 21 2007


<center>
-- phoenix, Dec 21 2007


Bang! ---------------------- !!!!>
-- reensure, Dec 22 2007


Wrong sort of percussion.
-- egbert, Dec 22 2007



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