The crosshair behavior is canvas dependent.  In the legacy canvas, the
crosshairs (full screen or small) are always shown.  In the modern
canvases, the crosshairs are only show when a tool is active and the
option is disabled.  Enabling the option makes the modern canvas
behavior the same as the legacy canvas.

On 2/7/2018 3:37 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
> Oh wait, bells are ringing.
> 
> The disclaimer on the checkbox is OSX-only.  Other platforms support it even 
> in legacy, don’t they?
> 
> 
> 
>> On 7 Feb 2018, at 20:28, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I just looked and there is no mention of legacy or modern in the
>> checkbox string.  There is a "not supported in legacy graphics" note in
>> the grid options but not the crosshair setting.
>>
>> On 2/7/2018 2:24 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
>>> We already did.  Well: “Always display crosshairs (not in Legacy)”, anyway.
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 7 Feb 2018, at 19:21, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2/7/2018 1:54 PM, jp charras wrote:
>>>>> Le 07/02/2018 à 19:44, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit :
>>>>>> If you are using a gal canvas, the only time you see the cross hairs is
>>>>>> when a tool is selected.  This is true of even the small cross hairs.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, but if in Preferences/Display Options you enable "Always display 
>>>>> crosshairs" you should have
>>>>> the crosshair cursor always displayed.
>>>>
>>>> So that's what that option is for!  We really should change the text to
>>>> is "Always display crosshairs in modern canvas" since this has no effect
>>>> on the legacy canvas.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2/7/2018 1:41 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote:
>>>>>>> Yes, did see the button (synced today).
>>>>>>> But it didn’t seem to change anything.
>>>>>>> Where should I see it?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 7. Feb 2018, at 19:39, Jeff Young <j...@rokeby.ie> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The crosshairs should be available again in a current build.  Do you 
>>>>>>>> see the toolbar button on the left?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 7 Feb 2018, at 17:36, Bernhard Stegmaier <stegma...@sw-systems.de> 
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> … yes, no good.
>>>>>>>>> It seems to be OK when just panning around.
>>>>>>>>> But, it gets very laggy while e.g. dragging/moving symbols around 
>>>>>>>>> (even on a not so big schematic I had at hand).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It is fine if you take out the Refresh() quoted below on macOS.
>>>>>>>>> I didn’t see any obvious things on a quick check with the remaining 
>>>>>>>>> changes (might be due to the fact that crosshair is still disabled on 
>>>>>>>>> macOS?).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>>> Bernhard
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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