[AuckLUG] Edge Resistance or Stickiness for Dual Screens

[Fuad Tabba]

Thanks Ravi.

Problem is, I have stuff on both. One I use for browsing and pdf viewing,
other I use for terminal and coding (gui). Therefore just positioning the
windows doesn't really help all that much...

On 8/6/07, Ravi Chemudugunta <chemuduguntar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Not sure if this is a helpful suggestion due to possible differences in
> setup; I always had my browser window or any window that i'd maximize on
> the
> right most screen so that I could blindly hit the right edge of my screen
> and select the scroll bar, you could possibly also do the same on the left
> most screen if you changed the position of the vertical scroll bar to be
> on
> the left side.
>
> Also, I use the scroll wheel a lot so this isn't usually an issue, the
> only
> things on a frame I like to be able to instantly hit are the close button
> (just in case someone walks in while I'm looking at uh nsfw stuff)  ... so
> I
> have them on the right most screen.  I am not sure if it can be changed to
> easily, I know on synergy you can change the time you have to spend on the
> edge before you are allowed to move to the other screen ...
>
>
>
> On 8/6/07, Fuad Tabba <fuad at cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I recently set my work environment up to use dual screens on Linux -
> > thanks
> > to the help I got from this mailing list. :)
> >
> > Anyway, one annoyance that I've been trying to solve, to which googling
> > proved not to be so helpful, is to have some sort of resistance or
> > stickiness when the cursor moves between screens. It is kind of annoying
> > to
> > have the cursor jump to the other screen when all I'm trying to do is
> > reach
> > the scroll bar or close a window.
> >
> > I noticed that there is an edge-snapping mechanism when I drag windows,
> > but
> > not for normal mouse movement.
> >
> > Any ideas, tips or suggestions?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > /Fuad
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