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ataylor

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Registered: 2008-04-10

Posts: 54

Keyboard/mouse focus mixup on dual screens

I've been using a dual screen i3wm setup for a few years now, with the dual screen configuration being done by xrandr in a script in .bash_profile:

xrandr --output HDMI1 --auto --right-of HDMI2
sleep 4;
xrandr --output HDMI2 --auto --left-of HDMI1

Recently I've started seeing a very weird issue: the keyboard will end up focused on one workspace, while the mouse will end up focused on another. To get them back in sync I have to mess around with the keybindings for moving workspaces (whereas before I've mostly used the mouse) or even had to reset i3wm entirely. I assumed this was a problem with i3wm so I switched to xfce, but had a similar problem - occasionally the focus would lock on a single application (e.g. Firefox) and I wouldn't be able to do anything else until I reset xfce.

Has anyone else experienced this?