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Mouse Without Borders and Remote Desktop #26359

Open ghost opened 1 year ago

ghost commented 1 year ago

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.70.0

Installation method

PowerToys auto-update, WinGet

Running as admin

None

Area(s) with issue?

Mouse Without Borders

Steps to reproduce

  1. Setup two computers using "Mouse Without Borders". (For me two work computers)
  2. Start a third computer not running Power Toys. (For me my home computer)
  3. From the third computer remote to one of the computers running "Mouse Without Borders" using "Remote Desktop" image

To get the mouse back was to terminate "Mouse Without Borders"

  1. tasklist /S COMPUTER /U USERNAME /P PASSWORD
  2. find the PID for "Mouse Without Borders"
  3. taskkill /S COMPUTER /U USERNAME /p PASSWORD /PID PID

✔️ Expected Behavior

Be able to use the mouse in "Remote Desktop". For me "Mouse Without Borders" can be turned off when I connect using "Remote Desktop". I can anyway not see the other computer screen and if I need it I remote to that one.

❌ Actual Behavior

Mouse pointer disappears

Other Software

"%windir%\system32\mstsc.exe" (Remote Desktop)

The computer connecting to: Windows 10 Pro 21H2 19044.2965 The computer connecting from: Windows 10 Pro 22H2 19045.2604

zhangyz1997 commented 3 months ago

same problems with iOS RDP client