Constraining cursor to RandR crtcs

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Mon Apr 2 03:15:43 PDT 2007


On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 10:41:00AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> What would be nice for a purely user POW is some visual hint the cursor is
> in Terra Incognita (for example an arrow on the side closer to the cursor
> with cursor distance). Clamping and jumping is very disorienting, I don't
> think users mind the cursor being out of the displays as long as they have
> some hint where it is (without needing to wiggle it to find it back, which
> won't work anyway for complex setups)

I'd be lying if I said I saw the point.  If moving the mouse off-screen
is a use case we want to support, why do we currently clamp it to the
screen limits on single screens; why do we clamp it to the extents of
multi-screen setups?  I just don't see why it's necessary to be able to
move the mouse into a specific dead area within the extents but outside
all visible screens.

Cheers,
Daniel
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