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Clever app keeps your mouse from jumping between monitors too quickly on dual-display setups
If you have Windows set to extend your desktop, your mouse moves instantly from one screen to the next. That can be bothersome when a program's controls (like a scrollbar) are near the edge of your display. Move a fraction of an inch too far, and you're mouse jumps to your secondary desktop.
Dual Display Mouse Manager offers a solution. Once installed, it creates a no-jump zone which prevents your mouse from leaving one display prematurely. It's like a weak force field -- you can still break out and get your mouse onto your other display, you just have to keep moving. The momentary pause provided by DDMM makes landing your pointer on those controls much easier.
DDMM is packaged as a .zip file and it's mostly portable -- .Net is required to use it, but you've got that already if you're using Vista or Windows 7.
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Subscribe to commentsblasztaApr 15th 2010 11:53AM
For dual monitor setup, I've simple solution: move the taskbar/superbar vertically between both monitors (right side in my setup). Works wondefully, and I can reach the superbar faster from both monitor.
DeoWulfApr 15th 2010 4:19PM
That seems nice in theory, but it would still get in the way of my main issue with my dual monitors: X-ing a fullscreen window in the leftmost monitor. I always miss and careen off into the next monitor because my learned behavior over the past several years has just been to smash the mouse up and right until it stops and click. I won't be installing this app, but what I would like is a type of catch-corner which grabs the mouse in the topmost corner, but not the rest of the edge.