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fivre

Member

Registered: 2007-04-17

Posts: 97

Mouse can't move beyond boundary of laptop screen on external monitor

I'm trying to switch to using an external monitor using the following:

xrandr --output LVDS1 --off --output VGA1 --auto --size 1920x1080

My display and window manager (awesome) seem to be expanding to the new screen size properly, but my mouse can't move beyond a 1280x800 (the size of my laptop screen) field from the top left corner. What am I supposed to do to make my mouse realize the proper mouse dimensions?

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Mouse can't move beyond boundary of laptop screen on external monitor

It may be 'the jailed mouse' syndrome:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=118999
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121702
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=124409
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=126484

AFAIK no solutions yet.