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When using macOS, the cursor appearance will change very often. For instance, it will switch from an arrow to a hand when you hover over a link in Safari. It will also get updated when you hover over the edge of a window to indicate that resizing mode can be activated, etc.

My desire would be to suppress this behaviour and have the cursor always be the standard arrow and never change.

Is this possible?

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  • I'm hoping this can fix a bad bug that occurs when using macOS with a screen that has a resolution of 5120x2880
    – xApple
    Commented Apr 20, 2017 at 15:11
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    Your comment makes me suspect this might be an XY Problem. Why not ask about the bug itself, (possibly mentioning this as an idea of a workaround) rather than jumping straight to the workaround?
    – 8bittree
    Commented Apr 20, 2017 at 18:31
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    You are right, I will probably post a separate question concerning this bug specifically. I'm still trying to understand what triggers it and its effects. This would be a step towards diagnostic.
    – xApple
    Commented Apr 21, 2017 at 9:15

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You can use Mousecape to apply custom cursors on macOS. For your use case you would have to create a custom cursors file ('cape') where the cursors of all types are identical.

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  • Of course, technically it would still change, though all images would be equivalent. So it might not do anything about whatever bug the OP is encountering.
    – Daniel B
    Commented Apr 20, 2017 at 16:33

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