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Subject: Re: xrandr - Multiple monitors, one rotated, mouse can disappear into non-desktop space
From: Ryan Felder <rfelder () cyc ! com>
Date: 2017-05-16 22:09:33
Message-ID: CALxVSgATNKsb2FZ=uKW-WOaHPGBO42qKSTHar6Xtg7mi4MWY4A () mail ! gmail ! com
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Felix, your observation solved it!
All I had to do was xrandr --output HDMI2 --pos 1200x538
Now that the monitors are directly touching in X, the mouse boundaries work
perfectly. Thank you!
On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Ryan Felder <rfelder@cyc.com> wrote:
> I can't seem to find any mention of this elsewhere. I have two monitors on
> a machine, the primary is portrait, the secondary is landscape. I can
> 'lose' my mouse in the empty space above my landscape monitor.
>
> If I have two monitors of different sizes, but no rotation, the mouse
> stops at the screen border where I would expect, preventing me from losing
> my mouse, but this functionality does not appear to be preserved when
> rotation is the cause of the different sized monitors.
>
> I cannot seem to find any xrandr setting to address this. I am running
> Ubuntu 16.04, Elementary/Pantheon desktop environment. My xrandr output is
> below. Is there anything I can do to fix this?
>
> Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 3125 x 1920, maximum 32767 x 32767
> DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> DP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> HDMI1 connected primary 1200x1920+0+0 left (normal left inverted right x
> axis y axis) 520mm x 320mm
> 1920x1200 59.95*+
> 1920x1080 60.00
> 1600x1200 60.00
> 1680x1050 59.88
> 1280x1024 60.02
> 1280x960 60.00
> 1024x768 60.00
> 800x600 60.32
> 640x480 59.94
> 720x400 70.08
> HDMI2 connected 1920x1200+1205+538 (normal left inverted right x axis y
> axis) 520mm x 320mm
> 1920x1200 59.95*+
> 1920x1080 60.00
> 1600x1200 60.00
> 1680x1050 59.88
> 1280x1024 60.02
> 1280x960 60.00
> 1024x768 60.00
> 800x600 60.32
> 640x480 59.94
> 720x400 70.08
> VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
>
>
>
>
--
Ryan Felder
Systems Administrator
p: 512-342-4048
e: rfelder@cyc.com
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<div dir="ltr">Felix, your observation solved it! <div><br></div><div>All I had to \
do was xrandr --output HDMI2 --pos 1200x538</div><div><br></div><div>Now that the \
monitors are directly touching in X, the mouse boundaries work perfectly. Thank \
you!</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 2, \
2017 at 12:10 PM, Ryan Felder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rfelder@cyc.com" \
target="_blank">rfelder@cyc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I can't seem to find any mention of this \
elsewhere. I have two monitors on a machine, the primary is portrait, the secondary \
is landscape. I can 'lose' my mouse in the empty space above my landscape \
monitor.<div><br></div><div>If I have two monitors of different sizes, but no \
rotation, the mouse stops at the screen border where I would expect, preventing me \
from losing my mouse, but this functionality does not appear to be preserved when \
rotation is the cause of the different sized monitors.</div><div><br></div><div>I \
cannot seem to find any xrandr setting to address this. I am running Ubuntu 16.04, \
Elementary/Pantheon desktop environment. My xrandr output is below. Is there anything \
I can do to fix this?</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Screen \
0: minimum 8 x 8, current 3125 x 1920, maximum 32767 x 32767</div><div \
style="font-size:12.8px">DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y \
axis)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">DP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right \
x axis y axis)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">HDMI1 connected primary \
1200x1920+0+0 left (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 520mm x 320mm</div><div \
style="font-size:12.8px"> 1920x1200 59.95*+</div><div \
style="font-size:12.8px"> 1920x1080 60.00 </div><div \
style="font-size:12.8px"> 1600x1200 60.00 </div><div \
style="font-size:12.8px"> 1680x1050 59.88 </div><div \
style="font-size:12.8px"> 1280x1024 60.02 </div><div \
style="font-size:12.8px"> 1280x960 60.00 </div><div \
style="font-size:12.8px"> 1024x768 60.00 </div><div \
style="font-size:12.8px"> 800x600 60.32 </div><div \
style="font-size:12.8px"> 640x480 59.94 </div><div \
style="font-size:12.8px"> 720x400 70.08 </div><div \
style="font-size:12.8px">HDMI2 connected 1920x1200+1205+538 (normal left inverted \
right x axis y axis) 520mm x 320mm</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> 1920x1200 \
59.95*+</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> 1920x1080 60.00 </div><div \
style="font-size:12.8px"> 1600x1200 60.00 </div><div \
style="font-size:12.8px"> 1680x1050 59.88 </div><div \
style="font-size:12.8px"> 1280x1024 60.02 </div><div \
style="font-size:12.8px"> 1280x960 60.00 </div><div \
style="font-size:12.8px"> 1024x768 60.00 </div><div \
style="font-size:12.8px"> 800x600 60.32 </div><div \
style="font-size:12.8px"> 640x480 59.94 </div><div \
style="font-size:12.8px"> 720x400 70.08 </div><div \
style="font-size:12.8px">VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y \
axis)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted \
right x axis y axis)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div \
style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div><br></div> </div></div>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div \
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valign="top" style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Arial;border-left:3px solid \
rgb(169,169,169);border-top-color:rgb(169,169,169);border-right-color:rgb(169,169,169);border-bottom-color:rgb(169,169,169);padding:0px \
0px 0px 8px"><div style="font-size:1.2em">Ryan Felder</div><span><span \
style="font-size:0.9em;font-weight:bold">Systems Administrator</span> </span><div \
style="line-height:1em;font-size:1em"> </div><div><span><span \
style="font-size:0.9em;color:rgb(171,171,171)">p: </span><span \
style="font-size:0.9em">512-342-4048</span> </span></div><div><span><span \
style="font-size:0.9em;color:rgb(171,171,171)">e: </span><span><a \
href="mailto:rfelder@cyc.com" \
style="background:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:0.9em" \
target="_blank">rfelder@cyc.com</a></span> </span></div><div \
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style="font-family:Roboto,Verdana,Arial;line-height:10px;font-size:10px"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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