[aklug] Re: Dual Monitors and mousing around

I find it annoying the way the screen geometry is setup; I too have lost my
mouse a few times switching to attached screens.
I typically center align the screens and keep that in mind; helps to resolve
any problems.
To take it up a notch, If you have multiple systems near one another, on the
same network, check out Synergy; use the same keyboard and mouse across
multiple systems, monitors, etc, without a KVM.

Google it, it's at the top'ish.

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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