Dualscreen mouse buffer

Ricki

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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?
 
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!
 
If i understand you correctly you mean similar to how Ubuntu compiz cube works for spinning the cube (Assuming you have used Ubuntu linux) - You need to "Push" against the edge of the screen to spin the cube, in this case you want to "push" against the edge of the screen to move onto the second monitor..

I cannot say i have seen such a thing for windows although im sure someone can prove me wrong :)
 
Thanks for the quick replies; everyone got what I was trying to get at :D

Microwave said:
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!
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I haven't tried it, just downloading it now after your suggestion. I will let you know if it works!
 
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 :p
 
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No joy with Ultramon I'm afraid :(

Sin_Chase said:
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 :p
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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.
 
It would still happen but the other way around wouldn;t it.

If someone could make an app to do this then it would be very helpful as in Windows 7 if you have your main monitor on the left and a secondary one on the right then it's very awkward to hit the new show desktop button without your curosr going on the secondary screen. If an app was developed which made you "push" slightly then hitting the show desktop would be made a lot easier!
 
Why dont you just buy a decent mouse/mouse mat? :D

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

I'm not sure how you are so easily missing things :x
 
Sin_Chase said:
Why dont you just buy a decent mouse/mouse mat? :D

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

I'm not sure how you are so easily missing things :x
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lol, not sure stacking them vertically would help :p

I think it might be a little coding project for me...
 
err, learn some hand eye co-ordination and mouse control. :p

Or a quick google throws up this, never used it but googling for something like 'dual monitor mouse stick edge' throws up various results.
 
You can do it in Ultramon. I can't remember exactly where the option is but it's in there as thats what I used to use. I think it's in the hot keys section.

I set mine up so I just had to press a button to lock the cursor to the screen. Does exactly what you want. Just press the button again and it unlocks it.
 
@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.
 
Ricki said:
@chaosophy:
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.
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Like I say, not used myself, just found it now with a quick google. Didn't even check the date to see when it was last updated. Did seem to have a few options though to tweak it to your style. Might be worth dropping the guy an email or another google to see if anything else is out there.
 
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