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I have a three monitor setup. Call the monitors Above, Below, and Left. When I move my mouse off the left of the screen of Above, I would like it to enter monitor Left. I would like the same behavior with Below - when I move my mouse off the screen of Below, it should also enter monitor Left.

Finally, when I move my mouse off the top of the screen of Below, it should enter Above, and when I move my mouse of the bottom the screen of Above, it should enter Below.

Is this setup possible with xrandr/arandr? I can use arandr to place Left to the left of Above,Below, overlapping both screens - but if my mouse is too far down on the Below screen, or too far up on the Above screen, it does not enter the Left screen.

yoyoy
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I have a similar setup. You can see yours with System Settings, but I have a python program that does it for me graphically (plus a lot more of course):

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There are three monitors:

  • HDMI-0 (1920x1080, upper left)
  • DP-1-1 (3840x2160, upper right)
  • eDP-1-1 (1920x1080, lower right)

The light-grey area of the canvas is where the mouse pointer cannot go. You can move portions of a window into the no-go area as you can see on HDMI-0. Sometimes the entire window can move to no-go area due to a bug in which case you can only recover with Alt+Tab (switch window) followed by Alt+F7 (move window) followed by mouse movement until it appears on a monitor.

Indeed if you were to put the icons on the top left monitor and select "Align Icons" many would paint down into the no-go area and you won't be able to select them. Unless you used the answer in the link.

WinEunuuchs2Unix
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