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[John Lea <797139@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

@ Bilal Akhtar,

Thanks for the reply, the Xorg stack fix is the appropriate response to
this issue.

** Changed in: ayatana-design
     Assignee: (unassigned) => John Lea (johnlea)

** Changed in: ayatana-design
       Status: Invalid => Fix Committed

** Changed in: ayatana-design
   Importance: Undecided => Critical

** Tags added: udo
** Tags removed: needs-design

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: unity
  
  When I have multiple screens of different resolutions connected, the
  mouse pointer can go outside of the screen in which case it can be very
  hard to "hit" the corner left corner and get the launcher to show.
  
  Depending on whether the bigger screen is a bit above or bellow the
  smaller one, the mouse can disappear on the upper or lower edge of the
  screen and it's hard to hit the upper corner (and show the launcher) or
  the lower corner (make the launcher unfold to show all the icons on the
  bottom of the launcher).
  
  This should probably either be fixed in the multiple screen management
  program so that the mouse can't go off the screen or in Unity to take
  into account the case in which the pointer can go beyond the screen
  above the upper left corner or below the lower left corner and make
  those areas also trigger the desired behaviour.
  
  Also, I noticed on some occasions when I am using multiple screens that
  hitting the left edge doesn't make the launcher unfold around the icon
  on that height (or let me click at the icon), but I have to move the
  mouse a few pixels to the right first - as if the mouse pointer can go
  1px outside of the screen to which the launcher isn't sensitive.
  
  I am using Ubuntu 11.04,  my screens are: a 15.4" 1600x1050 laptop and a
  20" 1600x1200 Dell monitor, but I've noticed similar issues with other
  external monitors connected (23" 1920x1080 LG, for example).
+ 
+ 
+ ---------------------------------------------
+ Desired resolution:
+ 
+ Patch the internals of the Xorg stack to remove the deadzones and solve
+ this issue

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Title:
  multiple screens - mouse goes outside the screen and can't activate
  the launcher

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