Got multiple monitors? Is it a PITA scrolling across them with the mouse?

[OriginalGriff]

I haven't tried it, but this looks promising: https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=10159[^]

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[MarkTJohnson]

Three monitor set up here at home, 2 twenty-somethings with the mac book on the left hand side. I'm just happy when, after I've taken the mac to another room and then come back and plug everything back in, the mac remembers the order of the monitors. Way too many times the mac thinks the left monitor is the on the right and vice versa. Ordering seems random when it comes back up. Yes, I plug the monitors into the same usb-c outlet each time.

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[RedDk]

I don't want to be a backseat driver or anything but all you really have to do is up the cursor speed.

[RickZeeland]

Great! another alternative might be dual-monitor-tools[^] :-\

[Rage]

Increase cursor acceleration. I think the limitation of increasing speed is that you lose accuracy on really small movements, which you also need a lot in the daily doing.

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[J_Hujanen]

I have good gaming mouse and that works perfectly with my 3 monitor setup. If I move it slowly it doesn't move fast, and swiping fast it can travel all monitors in one swipe. And it has button to change "resolution" for even faster / slower movement. Recommended. Only thing I hate is the flashing lights they have. Had to install app to disable that ;)

[den2k88]

IIRC you use what was once called a trackball, I find it difficult to be precise with that so I imagine a high mouse sensibility is out of the question. So far I never had a problem, I keep my mouse fairly fast and the main problem I find is that scrolling between monitors is way TOO easy - I ended up activating the "show mouse position when pressing Ctrl" option after some particularly irritating conference call.

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[OriginalGriff]

I do use a trackball, and I can get very high precision with it - better in fact than with a "regular mouse" where the act of pressing or releasing a button can cause the mouse to move a few pixels! :-D One "swipe" of the ball moves me about 135mm, so it takes 9 to cross from the left side of the screen(s) to the right side. And there are a lot of places a mouse can "hide" in there, so being able to say "move to the centre of the next one means within three key presses I can see where it is, regardless of which monitor I am looking at and it starts on!

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[den2k88]

OriginalGriff wrote:

better in fact than with a "regular mouse" where the act of pressing or releasing a button can cause the mouse to move a few pixels!

The blasphemy I uttered in such occasions is the stuff of legends. Working from home had me using my pro gaming mouse and I'm grateful. My gaming keyboard on the other hand is terrible for typing.

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[Dan Neely]

I only find this an issue with crappy low DPI mice. All of mine have DPIs high enough that edge to edge across 3 screens can be done in a few inches of horizontal travel. Unlike another commenter in the thread, I don't use any acceleration features; just a fixed high DPI rate. The changing wrist to screen movement rate from acceleration implementations always made it much harder for me to control exactly where my cursor stopped without deliberately slowing down at the end of the movement to drop back into slow mode.

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[BryanFazekas]

I had problems when the monitors are not the same size. Scrolling could be a problem and the PC uses the least resolution if the monitors are different, e.g., it uses the laptop settings for all monitors. Using setting for a 14" screen on 27" monitors is far from optimal. My current setup has 2 large monitors positioned side-by-side, and I keep the laptop closed in a docking station.

[W Balboos GHB]

Although I've gotten pretty used to two monitors (no room for three or more had I thought the need), but I'm on a single monitor system most of the time when working from home (which is most of the time). However, it's a 52" diagonal screen and I can treat it like four "standard" monitors if I wish by not opening window full-screen. It's an option that attracts me away from my much better system (RAM,CPU,Storage) because it works well. Also, I get to sit in a recliner instead of a office style desk chair. Of course, I'd really like two of these, side-by-side, but I don't live alone Going way back to your OP, I seem to recall that some mice used to adjust the DPI rate based upon how quickly you moved them. Does that still exist and, if so, wouldn't that do it, too?

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[Rusty Bullet]

Passed the link to this off to a coworker who struggles with multiple monitors.

[Nelek]

W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote:

Does that still exist and, if so, wouldn't that do it, too?

AFAIK yes. In gaming area should be available. In normal consumer... not so sure. What will probably bring an price increase.

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[Vaso Elias]

Me: Three huge monitors = 1 swipe across all of them = Cursor Speed = Max You need to used to it. Instructions here, jump to How to change mouse speed using Settings. Link[^]

[DanW52]

I think you can solve this pretty easily within Windows: 1) Go to 'Mouse' settings. 2) Set the 'Cursor speed' in the middle. You can come back and change it later. 3) On the right side of this window select 'Additional Mouse Options'. 4) A window named 'Mouse Properties' should appear. There's a lot you can do here. 5) Select 'Buttons'. Be sure that your mouse is selected on the right side. 6) Click on the 'Pointer Options' Tab. 7) At the top is a box named 'Motion'. 8) 'Select a pointer speed' is the same as 'Cursor Speed' in the previous window - no need to change it. 9) Check the 'Enhance Pointer Precision' box. This actually controls whether the pointer will accelerate the faster you try to move your mouse - my mouse feels dead without it. So, this sounds like the setting you really need. HTH! :)

[StarNamer work]

I combine multiple monitors with virtual desktops. I have 6 monitors (2 rows of 3) plus the laptop panel below them on the desk; Windows is set to use 3 virtual desktops giving a total of 21 'screens'. I use the first desktop for development, 1 or 2 (occasionally up to 4) copies of VS2019 (main web app plus interface process plus optional support apps), SSMS and couple of Chrome windows (usually one monitoring the production system which is mapped to be on all desktops plus one looking at my development page), Slack is on the laptop (also usually mapped to all desktops) to keep in touch with the rest of the team. I usually have VS2019 in the lower middle, Chrome to the left and SSMS to the right; the Chrome production monitor is at top middle. Top left and top right are used for SSMS if I need another VS window or open documentation pages. The second desktop is for support and has RDCMAN on lower middle to connect to servers - the main web farm has about 20 servers at last count, the main production system I work with uses 9 servers and the development, test, training and QA environments each use 7; then there's about a dozen SQL servers supporting them with a number other support servers (interface, messaging, authentication, etc). The last time I counted there were over 100 for which I have remote access enable for administration hence RDCMAN is essential. This desktop also gets random web pages connecting to various servers plus a sysadmin SSMS instance to do on-the-fly fixes to various databases. I also have a VSCode window to look at logs, format error messages, etc, plus a couple of Debian WSL sessions, one of which is usually running tail on the log coming out of the production interface process, the other to run grep on them. The other screens here tend to be random depending on what I'm doing, except that production monitoring is still on top middle. Desktop 3 is used for Outlook (lower right), open messages (usually lower middle) and random webpages opened on other screens (usually starting lower left). These may get moved to desktop 1 or 2 depending on whether they relate to development or support. Production monitoring is still top middle. When I was in the office, nearly a year ago, I only used 3 monitors with 3 virtual desktops. Having the extra ones now I'm working from home makes it easier. Of course, in the office, we also had the wallboard monitors, so I didn't need to run my own monitoring sessions. I can't understand how people can get anything done with just 2 monitors and no