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On a non-rectangular multi-monitor layout (e.g. when using monitors with
different resolutions) the mouse pointer can be positioned outside the
areas displayed by the monitors.

My preferred multi-head layouts are ones where the viewports touch only
at the corner. (E.g., if you have two 800x600 displays then you have a
"virtual" screen of 1600x1200 where the viewport of one display is in
the top left part and the viewport of the other display is in the bottom
right part.) This keeps stuff att the viewport borders still fast to
access (you know, fitt's law and how things at the border have infinite
width/height, enabling things such as Opera's "panel toggle" etc). This
layout works very well on other OSes, but on Ubuntu widgets along the
borders are annoyingly easy to miss because the pointer overshoots off
the screen so easily.

(I think the proprietary ati driver has an option to keep the pointer
within the bounds of the monitors' viewports, but I have only nvidia
cards myself so I can't confirm this. However, even if one driver has
implemented a workaround for this deficiency doesn't mean it should be
implemented at the driver level.)

** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Low
         Status: Incomplete

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Pointer goes offscreen on non-rectangular dual-head
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119417
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