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Alt-Tab mouse focus

770
Shink says:

Hay guise.

After noticing the poor neglected old monitor sitting in my kitchen staring at the corner, I realized I could be using a Dual Monitor setup.

However, it's now merely serving as a secondary pretty wallpaper, because I'm so stuck with alt-tab.

Is there any way to force the mouse to move to the focused window when you alt-tab to it? To save the time of scrolling ALL the way over to that other monitor.


Also, slightly off topic, anybody know how if there's a way to tell windows the secondary monitor is too the LEFT of the primary and not the right?

Oh, and, How do I shot web?

Thanks, Folks.

12:33 pm, Friday, May 11, 2007 (2 years ago)
1465
motorist says:

left click on desktop, select properties, go to Settings, there you can change/select primary or secondary monitor ...

12:41 pm (2 years ago)
1465
motorist says:

What kind of graphic card do you have?

12:42 pm (2 years ago)
1465
motorist says:

you just force mouse by hand ... haha

12:44 pm (2 years ago)
1465
motorist says:

I use extended monitor not split!

12:46 pm (2 years ago)
770
Shink says:

heh, the forcing it by hand just means I don't bother to mouse over to that window. I guess I could just get used to mousing around instead of alt-tabbing, but eh, old habits die hard, and it's so much cooler when I can make it do what I want, and not the other way around. Hence the customization.

And yeah, I know I could just switch which monitor is primary and which is secondary or use extended, but the thing is I have one right in front of me, and one off to the left. I want the nicer one in front of me, and that's the one I game on, so I need it as primary. Which means my secondary monitor is off to the left, which means I have to scroll off to the right to use it.

Which is why i'm curious about whether or not I can do something to change it so that I can scroll off to the left, instead. Eh, that's wwaaaayyy off topic anyway, I'm more worried about centering the mouse on whatever window I focus on with alt-tab, if that's possible.

12:59 pm (2 years ago)
1465
motorist says:

more science fiction to me ... sorry

01:06 pm (2 years ago)
1465
motorist says:

I'm using keyboard a lot ... know what u mean about old habits

01:07 pm (2 years ago)
1465
motorist says:

well i think ... if cursor can be forced to the active button ... maybe it is possible ... don't know ... i remember when i was using QuarkXpress (like InDesign) there was option to scroll tools up and down with just pressing (on MAC) Ctrl+tab > for up & Ctrl+shift+tab > for down selection ...

01:16 pm (2 years ago)
1465
motorist says:

Seeyaa

01:17 pm (2 years ago)
1408
aMADme says:

you can just drag the monitor you want to the left to the left in the dispaly settings

02:58 pm (2 years ago)
770
Shink says:

My god, man, you're a GENIUS.

Christ, why didn't I bother trying that?

Thanks so much!

03:05 am (2 years ago)
 
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