Trail Length: Drag the bar across to determine how short or long you would like your trail effect to be. Trail Style: Click on this drop down menu to see a list of all the trail styles that you can choose from, as seen below. Enabling this will mean that the popup dialog won’t appear every time you launch the app.Įnable Mouse Trail: Toggling this function on/off will determine whether your mouse pointer will have a trail or not. Hide Preferences on Startup: Magic Trail always launches the Welcome/Preferences dialog whenever the app is launched. Start at Login: Enable this option to have Magic Trail launch at login, every time you start your Mac. Toggle with Hotkey: This lets you assign a hotkey in order to enable or disable the magic trail effect quickly.
To change features within the app, we suggest you click on the Preferences menu at this point (you can also access the Preferences menu by right clicking the Magic Trail menubar icon on the top of your Mac’s screen). Upon first launch, you are presented with the following welcome screen: The app functions as a menubar app, running on the top of your screen. It’s simple, quirky and slick, working even with multiple monitors. Magic Trail is a fun app crafted to add special trailing effects to your mouse pointer.