** Description changed: 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.) + 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.)
-- Pointer goes offscreen on non-rectangular dual-head https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119417 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
