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chempstett

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Registered: 2020-10-18

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[SOLVED] Make mouse cursor jump gaps in the x screen?

Hello everyone.

I'm running i3wm on Arch with a nvidia card.
I have a four monitor setup with a single x screen which has gaps between the monitors.
Does someone know how to make the mouse cross the gaps/jump to the other monitor? It kind of sucks having to move the mouse around and to occasionally forget and moving the mouse against the edge of the screens.
Picture which shows my setup and illustrate the problem:

https://imgur.com/a/cKplOl5

Someone maybe familiar familiar with that problem or even knowing a workaround?

Thank you! :-)

Last edited by chempstett (2020-10-19 08:52:14)

Awebb

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Re: [SOLVED] Make mouse cursor jump gaps in the x screen?

Maybe you can cook something with this: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brightside

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Make mouse cursor jump gaps in the x screen?

You should™ also be able to unconditionally move the pointer through if you're ok w/ displacing the vertical outputs by 1px (ie. if they do not directly touch the center screen either)

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chempstett

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Registered: 2020-10-18

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Re: [SOLVED] Make mouse cursor jump gaps in the x screen?

@Awebb:
Thanks for the suggestion!
I took a look at it, but could not get it to do anything. I guess I must have missed something somewhere..

@seth:
Thank you! Good and easy solution!
It has a side effect of creating "dead zones" in the gray areas between the screens (the two L shaped left and right and the small above) though. Meaning you can move the mouse there, but in will not be visible.
But to me that's perfectly fine, marking solved.
Thanks again!