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Make cursor move seamlessly between displays

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Sound214

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Jul 24, 2011
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Yesterday I bought two additional displays to my Retina Macbook Pro, which means I now have three external displays, plus the built in display. The Macbook display is below the top one, and in between the two on the sides (see picture)

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For me to get the cursor from the Macbook display to the side ones, I have to slam the cursor to the one I want, otherwise it just sticks to the edge. However, it's working great to move it to the top one, since it's edge-to-edge in "Display arrangement". How can I solve this? I don't want to change the resolution on the Macbook Pro, since I like "Best for Retina". Also, I don't want an app that moves the cursor via shortcuts, since it's even more annoying.

If I move the Macbook display in system preferences like this:

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it works on the left side, but the problem remains on the right.

Any tips?
 
Can you rotate the middle upper monitor in portrait ? Or do you need landscape ? That could fill the gap.

On a other side it could be interesting to see if the screen layout could be modified via software. Once you move the mouse to left side the retina screen would close the left gap; same on the right side.
Is that possible? I have no idea. Others might know :eek:
 
ChristianJapan said:
Can you rotate the middle upper monitor in portrait ? Or do you need landscape ? That could fill the gap.
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Yes, I'll be watching plenty of Starcraft on Twitch.tv, which would be silly in portrait. Nice idea, though!


ChristianJapan said:
On a other side it could be interesting to see if the screen layout could be modified via software. Once you move the mouse to left side the retina screen would close the left gap; same on the right side.
Is that possible? I have no idea. Others might know :eek:
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I have no idea, I've been googling like a freak. It seems like a very niche problem, but it's very annoying having to slam the cursor through the barrier that is my screen edge.
 
2021, and this problem continues.

I have this setup, and cannot do the red arrow path, unless I move the bottom screen to touch the left one:

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But if I do that, it will be a mismatch with the real world, and also the entry interval between the top and bottom monitor will be wrong and force me to move the mouse to unintuitive places when going from top-right monitor to bottom-right one.
 
ropinheiro said:
2021, and this problem continues.

I have this setup, and cannot do the red arrow path, unless I move the bottom screen to touch the left one:

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But if I do that, it will be a mismatch with the real world, and also the entry interval between the top and bottom monitor will be wrong and force me to move the mouse to unintuitive places when going from top-right monitor to bottom-right one.
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Did you find a fix for this? I also have the same setup with the gap between my main monitor and the portrait monitor. Due to my desk set up it is not possible to fix the gap, and this is the only place I have found online discussing the issue. Why MacOS is set to stop the cursor at the edge rather than 'jumping' the gap is beyond me...
 
The cursor won’t jump a gap. To smoothly move from display to display, the areas must be contiguous.
 
chabig said:
The cursor won’t jump a gap. To smoothly move from display to display, the areas must be contiguous.
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Thanks for stating what is already known and reported here since 2013 :)

What people want, and need, is that Macs are smart enough to understand that not jumping gaps is stupid and non-intuitive. Geez, even Windows figured it out and jumps the gaps... this is an evident bug, or sequence of a weaker algorithm that is not able to calculate entry points in a destination screen when we hit a gap.

Even if you say that there are people willing the cursor not to jump the gaps (I can't imagine a real world use-case where that could more needed than jumping the gaps) then it was just a matter of adding a checkbox "jump the gaps?" and then leave it checked as the majority of people wants it (currently, 100% of Mac users in my company say they want this).
 
Norrgaard said:
Did you find a fix for this? I also have the same setup with the gap between my main monitor and the portrait monitor. Due to my desk set up it is not possible to fix the gap, and this is the only place I have found online discussing the issue. Why MacOS is set to stop the cursor at the edge rather than 'jumping' the gap is beyond me...
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No solution found so far, unfortunately :(

What I did was to fake the position of the screen to make it adjacent to left and top screens. Movements between up and down screens are very difficult to do as there is a big misplacement but it is currently less annoying than having to circumvent a gap going through top monitor.
 
ropinheiro said:
No solution found so far, unfortunately :(

What I did was to fake the position of the screen to make it adjacent to left and top screens. Movements between up and down screens are very difficult to do as there is a big misplacement but it is currently less annoying than having to circumvent a gap going through top monitor.
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Thanks, I was hoping there would be a script or something I had missed that would allow the cursor to 'jump' the gap. I agree its both annoying and unintuitive for the gap not to be jumped.
 
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