Universal Control - Mouse get's trapped on secondary screen

I use Universal Control between my 2 MacBook Pros.

Both are running Ventura 13.5

I use an external mouse and keyboard which are directly connected to my 14" MBP.

When I enable Universal Control to also control my 16" MBP, frequently the mouse gets "trapped" on that screen and I am unable to get my mouse and keyboard to work with my 14" MBP.

The only fix is to turn off bluetooth and wifi on my 16" MBP, thus breaking the connection and forcing UC to move my mouse and keyboard back to the 14" MBP.

Is anyone else seeing this behavior? is there a fix for this other than just disconnecting the 2nd machine's connectivity?

MacBook Pro 16″

Posted on Aug 10, 2023 9:15 AM

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Al Berman Author

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Aug 10, 2023 9:33 AM in response to Al Berman

I have found a "workaround" for this issue which is slightly more efficient than turning off WiFi + Bluetooth.

I created a Shortcut on my 16" MBP which runs the following command in terminal:

pkill -9 UniversalControl

This simply kills the Universal Control process, kicking my keyboard+mouse back to the 14" MBP.

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