PuzzledUser
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1 year ago Just for completeness, referencing a comment from: https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay/discussions/1546#discussioncomment-5012201
I've seen it work very nicely for virtualisation: https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-move-a-mouse-out-of-virtual-pc If you pull off the cursor teleportation illusion it could be less confusing.
I've watched users lose their pointer off the primary display in a dummy display and have no idea how to find it again. It's quite a fun game actually! Keeps the mouse pointer mileage up! 😂
waydabber
Discussed in https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay/discussions/1546
I often found myself accidentally trying to manipulate the contents of a PIP with my cursor. So, could a PIP capture my pointer (like some virtualisation software does) and move my cursor pointer into the dummy display?
NB: #1 Escaping the cursor from the PIP trap would need considering and all this could break some UI conventions if not done neatly. You do have the coordinates for this bi-directional translation between PIP and its host display. But there would be unexpected situations where traditionally you would expect moving out of the right of PIP 2 would enter into the left of PIP 3, but instead the cursor would pop out of PIP 2 onto the host display to then could push back into PIP 3.
But the traditional display arrangement perhaps doesn't really make sense when dealing with PIPs of Dummy displays. The above, sounds nicer at first thought to me. Perhaps a click would be needed to push the cursor into the dummy? But this seems unnecessary if the transitions happen smoothly for both push (in) and pop (out).
Normal cursor behaviour would continue if there was no PIP for a Dummy, but there could be a trap if there is no route for the cursor past a PIP of dummy 2 into a dummy 3 without a PIP. Argh. In that case the cursor should not pop back to the host display, but instead slide as normal into (the invisible) dummy 3. Programming is fun remember!
I think warping the mouse over with a PIP window is problematic and could be possibly disorienting so I am leaning towards not doing that (or maybe do it with some modifier key pressed while doing a long press with the mouse so it is absolutely intentional?).