topic Re: Mouse movement in Operating System - Linux

Mouse movement

admin1979 — Thu, 06 May 2010 08:16:39 GMT

Hi,

We have a test sles 10 system with 6 screens display.
We wish to know how to control the movement of mouse in these 6 screens. How to move mouse pointer to adjucent screen etc.

Please suggest and ask if you require any more information.

Thanx,
admin

Re: Mouse movement

Srimalik — Thu, 06 May 2010 09:33:51 GMT

How did you connect the screens to the machine ?

Re: Mouse movement

admin1979 — Thu, 06 May 2010 10:54:17 GMT

Using Matrox 2 cards for 6 screens

Re: Mouse movement

Matti_Kurkela — Thu, 06 May 2010 12:55:50 GMT

You should use the ServerLayout configuration section in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf to make the X server aware of the physical relationships of the screens.

See "man xorg.conf".

For example: if the screens are arranged to 2 horizontal rows of 3 screens each, and the bottom row is directly beneath the top row, a ServerLayout section might look like this:

Section ServerLayout
Identifier "My Screen Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" 1 0
Screen 2 "Screen2" 2 0
Screen 3 "Screen3" 0 1
Screen 4 "Screen4" 1 1
Screen 5 "Screen5" 2 1
[...]
EndSection

Another way to specify the same layout would be:
Section ServerLayout
Identifier "My Screen Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
Screen 2 "Screen2" RightOf "Screen1"
Screen 3 "Screen3" Below "Screen0"
Screen 4 "Screen4" Below "Screen1"
Screen 5 "Screen5" Below "Screen2"
[...]
EndSection

Once this configuration is in use, the pointer should automatically move from one screen to the adjacent one by simply moving it "through" the edge of the screen with the mouse.

If the ordering of the screens is dynamic, you might use the "xrandr" command to tell the system where each screen is located in relation with each other.

MK

Re: Mouse movement

admin1979 — Thu, 06 May 2010 13:04:07 GMT

We managed to do it.
Thanks your suggestions. They were worth.

Admin

Re: Mouse movement

admin1979 — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:24:24 GMT

As mentioned above.