Feature request: exclude monitors from multi-monitors client

[Matteo Zanoncello]

Hi all,

thanks for the great job with ID. It would be awesome if, in the client configuration after setting up the multi-monitor setting, I can explicity exclude some of those monitors from the ones controlled by ID. Also, I'd like to ignore excluded monitors in the layout disposition.

Personal use case:

I have a dual monitor setup shared between a desktop and a laptop with a KVM switch.

Using the laptop, I have a total of 3 monitors (2 shared external monitors + the laptop one)

When switching to the desktop, I only use the 2 shared monitors, but the laptop remains physically visible and I'm currently using ID to easily control that one without switching every time. The problem is that the monitor disposition is conflictual. I'd like to move the cursor only on the visible monitor of the laptop and ignore the others, without the risk to move the cursor on monitor I don't currently see.

[Shane]

Hi,

When you've got the 2 shared external monitors active on the desktop, does Windows on the laptop still think there are 2 extra monitors attached or does the Windows Display Setup (that looks like this: https://www.inputdirector.com/images/windisplaypropswin10.png) show only the laptop's monitor?

Regs,

Shane.

[Matteo Zanoncello]

Exactly. That's what my KVM switch does. It makes both my computers think the monitors are connected to them.

Here's the laptop config

Monitor 1 is the laptop one. When using the desktop I use monitors 2 and 3. I'd like to move between monitors 3 and 1 with ID. Currently, the workaround is to use a counterintuitive layout in ID (because the laptop is physically under the monitor 3). And there's still the risk of moving the cursor up on screens I can't see at that moment.

Here's my current setup in ID. The ideal is to access the lower monitor of the laptop client and ignore the others

[bladd]

I think this is the same feature I need!

I just switched from a dumb KVM to a smart one with EDID so it makes the computer think all the monitors are plugged in all the time.   (Tesmart dks203).  It makes switching the KVM really fast and without windows flipping all over the place.

I used to use Input Director to quickly move up to a single monitor attached to my second machine and back down rather than always using the kvm switch.    Best of both worlds to quickly access video security cameras on the other computer.

Now, because it thinks all the monitors are connected, the mouse has to invisibly pass through a monitor before it gets to the visible one.    I monkeyed with the arrangement enough so I can move UP fast without passing through anything extra, but coming back down it still gets lost and I have to find the mouse each time.

So, if Input Director had the ability to easily disable monitors I dont care about, I think that would be perfect.

Or maybe when you tell it you only have one monitor, have it default to the monitor that has been made the Windows "Make this my main display" checkbox in Display options.    It doesnt seem to do this now unless i missed something.    I think maybe it was defaulting to "Monitor 1" which is not the right one.

My setup:   3 monitors side by side with a 4th above the middle.    The 4th is the only one not switched by my KVM so it stays on my second server computer all the time.    Thats the one I switch up and down to with input director.

Thanks so much for this great program!!