[PLUG] how to move pointer between screens?

Wil Cooley wcooley at nakedape.cc
Sun Jan 8 09:30:21 UTC 2006


Also Sprach Russell Senior <seniorr at aracnet.com> on Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 08:56:19PM PST:
> 
> Suppose you have two non-xinerama screens in X.  They are both
> displaying properly, but you don't know how to move the mouse pointer
> from one screen to the other.  Ug, how do that thing, ug?  Have
> googled unfruitfully.  
> 
> Thanks for pointers (heh).

Perhaps you should describe the setup more fully?  Two X servers on two
separate video cards on one box?  If so, try Synergy.

Or configure one X server for multi-head instead of running separate X servers;
it's not that hard--here's what my ServerLayout looks like:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "mulit-head configuration"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1"
        Screen      1  "Screen1" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        Option      "Xinerama" "on"
        Option      "Clone" "off"
EndSection

The Monitor, Device and Screen sections are configured as usual, except
identifiers are unique for each type.

Wil
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