Cursor Issue

[Sean Faherty]

Hello,

I'm having an issue with my cursor when I am playing games on my director machine and I switch to a client machine. The mouse will switch to the client machine but when I move it the input is also registered on the director machine and moves my character in game. I tested it in a couple games both in fullscreen and borderless fullscreen. I also noticed that even with "hide the cursor when switching away from this system" unchecked the cursor still hides on the director machine when switching to client not just when a game is open. I was hoping if the cursor was left on the screen and I had hotkey cursor switch set to "center cursor" that it would fix my issue but since the cursor is not being left on the screen I'm not sure what to do.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[Shane]

Hi,

That can happen with some games as they tend to hook into mouse & keyboard input in a different (lower level)  way to standard applications. There's some more information about that here.

Regs,

Shane.

[Sean Faherty]

Thanks for the info! I did actually read that on the site but I already had screen edge transitions disabled with a hotkey and I tried turning off the keyboard LEDs option.

Any idea on how to fix the issue of the cursor not remaining on the director machines monitor when switching? Based on what you said it probably won't resolve the issue but I'm curious.

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[Sean Faherty]

For those who encounter the same problem I did find a bit of a workaround. I set the keybind for "switch to client machine" as "Left Win + B + /". Win + B is the shortcut for "Focus on System Tray" so when you switch to the client machine the taskbar pops up on the director machine which stops control of character in games. Can be Left Win or Right Win doesn't matter. Also the third character does not have to be "/" it can be any random key as long as Win + B is pressed first. Just "Win + B" as a keybind doesn't focus on system tray but instead brings up the task bar and start menu (as if you're just pressing windows key) which does also work but for my purposes I preferred it to just be the taskbar.

I love the functionality of this program it's what allows me to do stuff like this. I've used other virtual switches and they don't compare!

Would still like to figure out why my cursor is being hidden on the director machine though!