[aklug] Re: Dual Monitors and mousing around

Yeah, you need to keep an eye on monitor geometry when setting up dual
screens.

That Toshiba laptop I bring to the Friday night sessions will do dual
screens rather easily, but it's WXGA @ 1200 x 800. Most desktop screens
won't do that.

It automatically went to the least common denominator and I wound up
doing 1024x768. 1200x800 & 1024x768 are my only choices. Usable, but
not really I want.

Jim G

On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 13:20 -0800, barsalou wrote:
> I haven't done much research on this yet, but thought I'd throw this
> out there for a discussion topic.
>
> I just configured my workstation to use my laptop monitor and my extra
> monitor plugged into the back as a dual monitor setup.
>
> This has been great. xrandr is your friend.
>
> One of the things I've noticed, however, is that when mousing from the
> bottom of the big screen to my right over to the littler screen to my
> left, the mouse disappears.
>
> I have to move my mouse up about an entire mouse-length (is that a
> word?) before the cursor appears.
>
> I'm sure this has to do with the difference in geometry between the
> two screens....just thought it was interesting.
>
> Mike B.
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