Dualscreen mouse buffer

[Ricki]

I am running two screens and I am getting fed up of my mouse overshooting the scrollbar and close buttons on my main monitor (my secondary is to the right of the main). I have a had a look around but I can't find anything to act as a bit of a buffer between the two, by this I mean when I move the mouse to the right of the first screen I would like to have to push it a lot more (e.g. another 1/4 width of the desktop) for it to switch from the right-side of the first to the left side of the econd screen.

Does such a thing exist or am I the only one alive who wants such a thing?

 

[Ricki]

Thanks for the quick replies; everyone got what I was trying to get at

I see what you mean, do you have Ultramon, there may be an option on there? Even if there isn't it's pretty much essential software if you have dual screens!

I haven't tried it, just downloading it now after your suggestion. I will let you know if it works!

 

[Ricki]

No joy with Ultramon I'm afraid

You can put a non-connected/existant but activated monitor inbetween your 2 dual screens with a small set resolution of say 640x480 and you will effectively have 640 pixels of blank space your cursor has to travel through to get to the other.

Can you 'force' detection/enabling of something like a SVIDEO connected TV with your VGA card?

The downside is obviously this is not limited to cursor behavior, if you span windows it will disappear into this fake display

Thanks for that, but not quite what I was getting at... I would like my mouse to be stopped at the right edge of the screen until I have 'pushed' enough to go onto the second screen.

 

[Ricki]

Why dont you just buy a decent mouse/mouse mat?

Or stack the monitors ontop of each other in display settings then you only have to worry about 'leaking over' vertically

I'm not sure how you are so easily missing things :x

lol, not sure stacking them vertically would help

I think it might be a little coding project for me...

 

[Ricki]

@chaosophy: lol - I've just gotten into a bad habbit of whizzing my mouse to edges for close and scrollbars without looking, same as I do for the Windows key (in essence touch-clicking?!) Actually moving my eyeballs is far too much like effort!

I had a quick play with MouseTrap, and it may just be a problem with Windows 7, but it doesn't actually seem to do anything at all, or I may just be too violent with my mouse movements.

@me227: thanks, I missed that option, but it's not really whay I'm after. I quite often sit over 4m away from my PC so the keyboard isn't handy (I have a wired keyboard). I also think, with the way I work and use two screens, that having to tap a hot-key every minute would drive me batty.