How to align multiple monitors

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HI,

I have Win 11 and want to use 3 monitors.
The monitors have the same resolution but are different sizes and manufacturers.
I want to make it so when my mouse cursor leaves one screen it moves smoothly onto the next screen at the same vertical position. As the screens are different sizes I accept that there will be places the mouse cannot move to the next screen then.

In Windows I can find a way to change the screen resolutions, but I cannot find out how to change the screen sizes. It seems to think every monitor of the same resolution is the same size.

Am I missing something in Windows that handles this please?
 
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Maybe something got lost in translation on my end but are you asking how you make Windows think something like a 27" monitor is a 32" or 24" monitor, because if so I'm not sure that's even possible.
 
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You can change orientation and relative position to eachother, but for example, a 1440p screen, is always treated the same regardless of physical size. There might be a third part tool for that, can't say I've seen one.

I run 3 screens, a 27" 1440 in the middle and two identical 24" 1200 pixel screens either side. I just have them positioned so that the bottom/task bar is level
 
When you have the displays on screen you can just drag them about to align with each other just how you want so when the mouse goes from one to the other it's at the same level if that's what you mean. The different res screens will eb a different size but you can strill drag them about. If that's not what you meant then apols....
 
If you're on Windows 10 (I don't have Win11), if you right click on the desktop and select Display settings, you should be able to do everything you're asking for in that menu.
 
So I think OP has for example 2x 24" and 1x27" all running at 1920x1080 and wants to set it up so that if he is at the top of the 24" the cursor will come out at the same "physical" level on the 27".

If that is the case OP then u fortunately it's not something that you will be able to do, Windows does not compute the screen size per se, to windows all of those screens are the same size. A pixel is a pixel essentially so a height of 900px on the 24" is the same relative height of 900px even if it's not the same physical height.

Hope that makes sense
 
SilverTongue said:
So I think OP has for example 2x 24" and 1x27" all running at 1920x1080 and wants to set it up so that if he is at the top of the 24" the cursor will come out at the same "physical" level on the 27".

If that is the case OP then u fortunately it's not something that you will be able to do, Windows does not compute the screen size per se, to windows all of those screens are the same size. A pixel is a pixel essentially so a height of 900px on the 24" is the same relative height of 900px even if it's not the same physical height.

Hope that makes sense
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Yes you can do that on the display screen as it's exactly what I have here. 24" Full HD and 32" 1440p. I have them "dragged" in the windows display settings so the mouse leaves one and appeas exactly in line on the other monitor. Of course if you try to leave the 32" out of bounds of the 24" the pointer stays where it is.
 
scotty38 said:
Yes you can do that on the display screen as it's exactly what I have here. 24" Full HD and 32" 1440p. I have them "dragged" in the windows display settings so the mouse leaves one and appeas exactly in line on the other monitor. Of course if you try to leave the 32" out of bounds of the 24" the pointer stays where it is.
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That is because your resolutions are different.
 
As mentioned by everyone else, Windows does this by resolution, not size. There's not really any way for a monitor to report back what size it is and even if it did, assuming all monitors are the same resolution, you're going to end up having weird scaling issues when moving windows between screens as it tries to compensate for the different sizes. There's no easy solution for this apart from making sure the bigger monitors uses a larger resolution compared to the smaller ones.

I guess one method depending on the GPU, I believe AMD and Nvidia offers a way to create a larger virtual resolution to trick Windows, could maybe do that? Although for desktop experience it'll end up making things look too small.
 
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