Constraining cursor to RandR crtcs

Graeme Gill graeme2 at argyllcms.com
Mon Apr 2 06:35:11 PDT 2007


Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> IMHO if you don't allow excursions within dead zones you'll always find a
> screen setup where your solution suck. If you do allow excursions there
> (possibly with acceleration so leaving dead zone is quick) things are much
> easier. You just have to provide visual hints to the user where the cursor
> is and how far in what direction must he move it to find a live zone
> 
> +------------++-----+
> |            ||   1 |
> |            ||   v |
> |            |+-----+
> |            |
> |          4>|    x
> +------------+

Suggesting perhaps that if a cursor is in a dead zone,
it could be indicated by duplicate cursors appearing at
all edges of that zone ?

Graeme Gill.



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