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Can you go into some more detail about some use-cases for this? Why would you have multiple screens "far apart from each other"?

ok_dad 3y ago
Not a Mac but this illustrates: I have a screen for my simrig (racing wheel and pedals setup almost like a car cockpit) with a wireless keyboard that has a touchpad in it mounted to the rig. On my desk across the room, I have a screen, mouse and keyboard, and the PC that powers that rig. I have to turn one or the other monitor off in order to just use the one mouse next to it on it alone. If this was for Windows also, I would use it to keep the monitors separated with their own input devices. I could imagine several creative workflows that could use setups separated like this, perhaps in a photo studio or a CNC shop.
jon-wood 3y ago
My Windows computer is connected to both a monitor on my desk, and a TV way over the other side of the room for playing games that make more sense that way. As the sibling post here mentioned, it can be kind of annoying to pick up the mouse and find the cursor is on the other side of the room.
giraffe_lady 3y ago
Music production is one for sure. Macs are the standard there and each screen usually represents a different "function" and is set up near the device or instrument it relates to. Most people use a macbook or ipad per "station" but for some setups you could run it all off one machine if the inputs were right. There are even workflow advantages to doing it that way. I've heard people wish for this.
lhamil64 3y ago
I'm not a Mac user but something like this would be nice for me. I'm visually impaired, and I have to be very close to the screen so I have my main monitor on an arm so it can float above my keyboard. Then I have a second screen (or laptop) on a desk next to me, but to see that I have to turn 90 degrees and lean in, which makes it awkward to use my keyboard/mouse. This is better with a laptop because it gives me a second keyboard/mouse for the second monitor, but I have to keep moving the cursor back and fourth. My solution so far has been to use Autohotkey to define some hotkeys that move my mouse to the center of my main display and the center of my secondary display, which works surprisingly well. Although to be honest, I rarely use the second display. I mainly use it while screen sharing in a meeting so I can have notes and stuff up on my main display.
- tough 3y ago
  https://www.sharemouse.com/ https://www.sharemouse.com/ could be useful to you sir
- rekabis 3y ago
  I think that an auto-highlight-on-move, similar to mashing CTRL constantly on Windows, only with the screen-darkening ability of the double-CTRL-tap of Microsoft Powertoys, would be more effective for you. As in, with every significant (user-magnitude-defined) motion of the mouse, all screens darken/grey-out except for a bright spotlight surrounding your mouse. Allows you to always see where your mouse is even up to near-blindness, as that spotlight is going to be 3-6cm in diameter regardless of the screen resolution, and obvious as heck. Edit: been looking for a tool like this myself. Still have decent vision, but with six monitors at ≈1.5-2k resolution each, a cursor can go missing, fast. Would love to have cursor highlighting (no stupid Win98 “tail”, thanks) on any mouse movement.
  - lhamil64 3y ago
    I actually also have that and it does work very well. My problem is that I forget it's installed!
jibbers 3y ago
I use my Mac as a desktop on one side of a room, connected to a display and a projector. The projector shines on the opposite wall of the room.

ok_dad 3y ago

Not a Mac but this illustrates: I have a screen for my simrig (racing wheel and pedals setup almost like a car cockpit) with a wireless keyboard that has a touchpad in it mounted to the rig. On my desk across the room, I have a screen, mouse and keyboard, and the PC that powers that rig. I have to turn one or the other monitor off in order to just use the one mouse next to it on it alone. If this was for Windows also, I would use it to keep the monitors separated with their own input devices. I could imagine several creative workflows that could use setups separated like this, perhaps in a photo studio or a CNC shop.

jon-wood 3y ago

My Windows computer is connected to both a monitor on my desk, and a TV way over the other side of the room for playing games that make more sense that way. As the sibling post here mentioned, it can be kind of annoying to pick up the mouse and find the cursor is on the other side of the room.

giraffe_lady 3y ago

Music production is one for sure. Macs are the standard there and each screen usually represents a different "function" and is set up near the device or instrument it relates to. Most people use a macbook or ipad per "station" but for some setups you could run it all off one machine if the inputs were right. There are even workflow advantages to doing it that way. I've heard people wish for this.

lhamil64 3y ago

I'm not a Mac user but something like this would be nice for me. I'm visually impaired, and I have to be very close to the screen so I have my main monitor on an arm so it can float above my keyboard. Then I have a second screen (or laptop) on a desk next to me, but to see that I have to turn 90 degrees and lean in, which makes it awkward to use my keyboard/mouse. This is better with a laptop because it gives me a second keyboard/mouse for the second monitor, but I have to keep moving the cursor back and fourth. My solution so far has been to use Autohotkey to define some hotkeys that move my mouse to the center of my main display and the center of my secondary display, which works surprisingly well. Although to be honest, I rarely use the second display. I mainly use it while screen sharing in a meeting so I can have notes and stuff up on my main display.

tough 3y ago
https://www.sharemouse.com/ https://www.sharemouse.com/ could be useful to you sir
rekabis 3y ago
I think that an auto-highlight-on-move, similar to mashing CTRL constantly on Windows, only with the screen-darkening ability of the double-CTRL-tap of Microsoft Powertoys, would be more effective for you. As in, with every significant (user-magnitude-defined) motion of the mouse, all screens darken/grey-out except for a bright spotlight surrounding your mouse. Allows you to always see where your mouse is even up to near-blindness, as that spotlight is going to be 3-6cm in diameter regardless of the screen resolution, and obvious as heck. Edit: been looking for a tool like this myself. Still have decent vision, but with six monitors at ≈1.5-2k resolution each, a cursor can go missing, fast. Would love to have cursor highlighting (no stupid Win98 “tail”, thanks) on any mouse movement.
- lhamil64 3y ago
  I actually also have that and it does work very well. My problem is that I forget it's installed!

jibbers 3y ago

I use my Mac as a desktop on one side of a room, connected to a display and a projector. The projector shines on the opposite wall of the room.