[PATCH] KWin Xinerama: Move mouse to other screen

[Hans Meine]

On Freitag 17 Oktober 2008, Hans Meine wrote:
> The problem I have in practice is simply that it takes very long to move
> the mouse pointer from one screen to the other (recall, there are > 3800
> pixels from the leftmost to the rightmost position).  I have therefore
> looked for a keyboard shortcut to move to the other screen, and found the
> two global KWin actions "Switch to Next Screen" and "Window to Next Screen"
> which are very useful.  [...]
> Now I propose to enhance these two actions such that the mouse is
> transferred to the other screen, too.  I have attached a proof-of-concept
> patch, which still has some shortcomings.

Any Xinerama user on this list who volunteers to try my patch?  I apologize 
for the long post, but there was a lot to say..

(If you think "moving mouse pointers programmatically is evil", recall that 
this is an action initiated by the user, so that does not hold here IMO.)

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