Nvidia twinview cursor moves out of view

tallest

I am using nvidia's twinview to diplay a second desktop on my TV (using tv-out) so that I can play videos on it while still using the computer. Everything works fine, my main screen is at 1280x1024 and the tv is at 640x480 (videos go fullscreen to fill the TV properly) but my mouse cursor is able to go off the TV screen as if it were at 1280x1024 (and not onto any other screen). Is there any way to prevent this from happening?

Here is the appropriate section of my xorg.conf

Darknight · Guru Joined: 26 Jan 2004 Posts: 483 Location: Italy

No expert, but if that metamodes line refers to the tv-out I'd remove any mode except 800x600 and retry.

tallest · Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 12:48 am Post subject:

First: a correction, the video out screen appears to let the mouse move on a 640x1024 desktop (the correct width, but the height is set to the same as my main screen).

Second: the metamodes line specify the mode for the main screen and the TV-out, with a comma between the two. So the TV is always set to 640x480.

Thanks,
Aaron
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tallest · Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 12:52 am Post subject:

I'm starting to wonder if it might be a flaw in Xfce's window manager. Could this be true?
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Darknight · Guru Joined: 26 Jan 2004 Posts: 483 Location: Italy

Seems like what you get with some xinerama configurations.
You can actually have some things disappear in a out of screen zone because the desktop has to have the same height all along.
So, if you are using your tv-out as part of a xinerama display I suggest that you use it instead as a separate display.