Constraining cursor to RandR crtcs

[Colin Guthrie]

Matthias Hopf wrote:
> On Apr 02, 07 10:21:06 -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 10:49 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>>
>>> I had the following layout
>>> +---------------------------------+---------------------------------+
>>> |                                 |                                 |
>>> |                                 |                                 |
>>> |                                 |                                 |
>>> |                                 |                                 |
>>> |                                 |                                 |
>>> |                                 |                                 |
>>> |                              3  | 4                               |
>>> +---------------------------------+                                 |
>>>                                   |                                 |
>>>                                   |                                 |
>>>                                2  | 1                               |
>>>                                   +---------------------------------+
>>>
>> The other alternative is to just confine the cursor to the visible
>> region in this case -- make it 'impossible' to move from 1 to 2, and
>> just block the cursor at 1. That seems better to me, and makes it much
>> more like the existing root window where you simply cannot move outside
>> of the window at all.
> 
> This is a *very* bad idea, if the size difference between these two
> monitors is very small (e.g. 1680x1050 on the left hand size, 1280x1024
> on the right hand side - BTW exactly the combination I have here).
> In that case you certainly don't want your cursor to just stop on the
> lower right edge of the left monitor when moving right, because the
> difference is almost negligible.

Hmm I see your point. That said, the little step you get in that
scenario would probably be something you would, in practice, get used to
fairly quickly I reckon.

> So I guess this is all about personal taste. There probably is no best
> practice at all.

Unfortunately I have to agree.

Col.