I bought a new 27" display for meetings and connected it to my macbook air but the curser wont move to the bigger screen, the pop up window for Settings--> displays is on the other display but I cant access it, the only way the pop up comes back to the laptop is if I diconnect but then the studio display is not an option. Help please?
Displays Settings may have an idea about the physical arrangement of your displays that is at odds with the actual arrangement. (It has no way of knowing the real physical arrangement until you tell it.)
If you've been trying to move the mouse pointer off the left edge of one display to get to another (and it won't go), you could try moving it off the right edge instead. Same with up vs. down. Once you can move the pointer enough to get to Display Settings, you can check the monitor arrangement and drag the icons around if necessary.
Displays Settings may have an idea about the physical arrangement of your displays that is at odds with the actual arrangement. (It has no way of knowing the real physical arrangement until you tell it.)
If you've been trying to move the mouse pointer off the left edge of one display to get to another (and it won't go), you could try moving it off the right edge instead. Same with up vs. down. Once you can move the pointer enough to get to Display Settings, you can check the monitor arrangement and drag the icons around if necessary.
as Servant of Cats says, your two displays are concatenated along an edge, and the mouse moves freely across the virtual boundary between displays, but is blocked from going into hyperspace (unless another display is beyond the edge) operating as one Big Extended Desktop.
You and the Arrangement pane must agree about the PHYSICAL position is space. You can drag the blue boxes around to get a view that corresponds to the placement on your Physical bench, left right up down, and you can also drag the menubar icon to the display you wish to be considered Primary.
My mouse is stuck on my macbook air and I need it on my new display
