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FS#50350 - [xorg-server] Mouse is not reaching whole screen in HiDPI laptop with external monitor
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Opened by Suresh Kumar (surki) - Thursday, 11 August 2016, 06:34 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Tuesday, 23 August 2016, 11:35 GMT
Opened by Suresh Kumar (surki) - Thursday, 11 August 2016, 06:34 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Tuesday, 23 August 2016, 11:35 GMT
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DetailsDescription: When connecting a non HiDPI monitor to to a HiDPI laptop (Macbook pro retina 2015 model), I need to scale the non-HiDPI monitor. After scaling the mouse is not able to move past the second monitor's first half.
Upstream bug report: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39949 This has not been fixed for long, can we please include the patch for fixing it? Attached is the patch that fixes it: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=94929 Ubuntu bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1580123 Additional info: xorg-server 1.18.4-1 Steps to reproduce: * In a HiDPI laptop, connect external non-HiDPI monitor. Note that everything is large in non-HiDPI monitor * Scale the external monitor, something like: xrandr --output HDMI2 --scale 2x2 * Note that mouse is not able to reach all the parts of non-HiDPI monitor 
cursor_scaling.patch
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Fix it yourself locally using abs or wait for an upstream fix. I've cc'ed to the upstream bug.