[Expired for xorg (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
days.]
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Expired
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119417
Title:
Pointer goes offscreen on non-rectangular dual-head
Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
Expired
Bug description:
On a non-rectangular multi-monitor layout (e.g. when using monitors
with different resolutions) the mouse pointer can be positioned
outside the areas displayed by the monitors.
My preferred multi-head layouts are ones where the viewports touch
only at the corner. (E.g., if you have two 800x600 displays then you
have a "virtual" screen of 1600x1200 where the viewport of one display
is in the top left part and the viewport of the other display is in
the bottom right part.) This keeps stuff att the viewport borders
still fast to access (you know, fitt's law and how things at the
border have infinite width/height, enabling things such as Opera's
"panel toggle" etc). This layout works very well on other OSes, but on
Ubuntu widgets along the borders are annoyingly easy to miss because
the pointer overshoots off the screen so easily.
(I think the proprietary ati driver has an option to keep the pointer
within the bounds of the monitors' viewports, but I have only nvidia
cards myself so I can't confirm this. However, even if one driver has
implemented a workaround for this deficiency doesn't mean it should be
implemented at the driver level.)
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