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EzelsoorD

Q: How to 'lock' my cursor to one of my two monitors?

Hello all, thanks for reading my question!

 

My 'problem' is the following: I recently started using a second monitor on my iMac [OsX Yosemite - 10.10.2 / i5 - 2,7GHz / 8GB 1600MHz DD3]. The additional monitor is a Samsung 40" Television screen that I have been using with my old Windows PC. My input-devices are the standard wireless keyboard and magic-mouse, and in addition to that I am using a Wacom Graphire4 with Bamboo-drivers since it's not compatible with the latest version of OsX. The only software I installed to streamline this setup is called 'CatchMouse', which I use to center my cursor on either one of my monitors.

 

What I would like to be able to do is lock my cursor to either one of my screens, and use my shortcuts to switch between them, without the possibility of my cursor jumping to the next screen as soon as I get too close to the edge of my screen. I have tried to change the alignment of the two screens in the preferences-menu, but that still didn't prevent my cursor from 'jumping' from one screen to the other. Is there a workaround for this, or perhaps additional software?

 

The reason I would like to do this is my Wacom, I use it in absolute positioning (meaning that the top-left on my input-device is the top-left on my screen) and the second screen 'sorta' ruins that experience for me..... There's always a chance I am overlooking a very basic setting, apologies in advanced if this turns out to be the easiest thing to do on a Mac besides hitting the Power-button.... Perhaps some of you have the same 'problem' and know a workaround for it, I will of course continue my quest for a solution on the rest of the interwebs and post it here if/when I do find it, but any extra help from here will be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks for now!

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Feb 10, 2015 6:29 AM