Draw regions over Virtual desktop only covers 2 out of 3 monitors

[JeffKang]

Hi Tim or anyone viewing, I have a 3 monitor set up.

I’m testing screen regions by going to:

Draw regions over: Virtual desktop

When I create a region that is almost as big as the yellow canvas, which is supposed to span my entire virtual desktop, I can only see the default LightGray region outline in my middle and right monitor, but not my left monitor. The left monitor isn’t being detected, so the leftmost edge of the screen region is only left of my middle monitor.

Are there any reasons why this could be happening?

In the Windows Display settings, pressing “Identify” for the monitors gives me:

2 1 3

Therefore, in the “Rearrange your displays” section, I’ve dragged the 1 rectangle to the center to make my mouse pointer properly move horizontally across the 3 monitors.

I’m not sure if that has anything to do with it. Do the displays have to be 1 2 3.

Thanks for any info, and this great program (really helps for repetitive strain injuries / tendinosis),
Jeff

[Tim-Brogden]

Hi Jeff,

I remember modifying the code to take account of different screen resolutions (not necessarily correctly!) but there is no code to handle individual screens - that is handled by the system. So if there's any way to switch your monitor cables around so that you don't need to reorder the displays in Windows, that might be worth a try.

I doubt that this is relevant, but I will just mention that one user had scaling issues with his displays and the solution (as mentioned in the readme file) was as follows:

• right-click the Alt Controller shortcut, choose Properties (Compatibility tab), click “Change High DPI settings” then tick “Override high DPI scaling performed by” and select “System”. Click OK twice to apply the changes.

Hope that helps.
Tim

[JeffKang]

Hi Tim,

Sorry I missed your message last year, and thanks a lot for the response.

Right now, I use custom windows together with the dwell reason to send a Page Down action for scrolling and reading on the computer. Across my three monitors, I made large custom windows on the left and right sides, about 1920 × 1080 each, so they are easy for me to enter with the mouse. That gives me a large landing area and makes it easier to trigger Page Down.

The downside is that if my cursor is too far inside the large rectangle, I have to travel all the way back out of it before I can re-enter and trigger another Page Down.

Later, I tried making four smaller custom windows instead, around 700 × 350 each. That created more gaps, and therefore more entry and exit points, so I could leave and re-enter more quickly to send another Page Down.

What I was hoping screen regions could do was work differently. The main reason I was trying them is that I noticed there is an input event with the reason “Inside.” I thought that with an input event “Inside” the region, movement within the region itself would repeatedly trigger Page Down, so I wouldn’t have to leave and re-enter each time the way I currently do with custom windows.

After finding out that I can set the DPI sensitivity much higher on mice like the Razer Viper V3 Pro (e.g., such as 6400), it ended up mattering less to me how large the custom windows are. With the higher sensitivity, I can enter and exit the custom windows much more quickly.

Thanks again for the information, and I really appreciate the software — it’s been a lifesaver.