I posted a similar question a couple months ago, but it may have been vague since my set-up is unique.
I have (3) 27" Monitors (side-by-side) on my 2019 Mac Pro. I have been using a 3-monitor set up for over 30 years; however, I have not used a traditional "mouse" since the 90's! I have always used a Wacom tablet with the Wacom mouse and the Wacom allowed me to set up the tablet surface to track in "pen" mode - that way I could "map" a small area of the tablet to a virtual 3-monitor desktop, allowing me to drag a window from the far right monitor to the far left monitor by only moving the mouse maybe 6 inches. If I were to pick up the mouse and set it down somewhere else on the tablet, the cursor would instantly jump to a relative location on the virtual 3-monitor desktop. Wacom has since discontinued support for their mouse moving forward and is no longer supported on their tablets as of Monterrey (Thanks Wacom!). Therefore, I will have to leave Wacom for my daily needs after 20+ years as a "stylus" is not a good option for most of what I do (including 3D work), just use it mostly in Photoshop and Illustrator.
So my question is... I see lots of people using 3-monitor set-ups with regular mice (like the Logitech MX Master 3). If I switch to such a mouse, how hard would it be to move say a window from the far right monitor to the far left monitor? In other words how much desk space would a mouse need to make that move without having to keep picking it up over and over again to complete that action? As I said, I am used to about 6", but as far as I know, you cannot "map" a regular mouse to a certain desktop area?
I have (3) 27" Monitors (side-by-side) on my 2019 Mac Pro. I have been using a 3-monitor set up for over 30 years; however, I have not used a traditional "mouse" since the 90's! I have always used a Wacom tablet with the Wacom mouse and the Wacom allowed me to set up the tablet surface to track in "pen" mode - that way I could "map" a small area of the tablet to a virtual 3-monitor desktop, allowing me to drag a window from the far right monitor to the far left monitor by only moving the mouse maybe 6 inches. If I were to pick up the mouse and set it down somewhere else on the tablet, the cursor would instantly jump to a relative location on the virtual 3-monitor desktop. Wacom has since discontinued support for their mouse moving forward and is no longer supported on their tablets as of Monterrey (Thanks Wacom!). Therefore, I will have to leave Wacom for my daily needs after 20+ years as a "stylus" is not a good option for most of what I do (including 3D work), just use it mostly in Photoshop and Illustrator.
So my question is... I see lots of people using 3-monitor set-ups with regular mice (like the Logitech MX Master 3). If I switch to such a mouse, how hard would it be to move say a window from the far right monitor to the far left monitor? In other words how much desk space would a mouse need to make that move without having to keep picking it up over and over again to complete that action? As I said, I am used to about 6", but as far as I know, you cannot "map" a regular mouse to a certain desktop area?
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