Dual Mice

[Space-Bot]

Ok, some of you are going to just laugh at me and call me a stupid moron. To those who think that way, just hit your back button and keep your comments to yourself. My Thought is that it would be wonderful to have two mice controlling my desktop. I am running a typical dual monitor display, much like some of you I am sure. I am interested in hooking up a mouse per screen possibly. I can use mice in both hands, and seem to get annoyed dragging mouse across several thousand pixels horizontally. Thoughts? Ideas? As much as I go between graphic editing and 3d modeling, it just makes sense, to me at least. I found a few topic of discussion about such things regarding Linux OS', but I am currently running windows. Once again suggestions, ideas, comments, thoughts and so on are welcome.


Thank you,
Space-Bot

[Liquor_Riss]

I don't know about a mouse for each screen, but I have 2 hooked up to my PC. Just have one with a USB connection and one with a PS2 connection.

[SileNceR]

but they then control the same mouse pointer.

i'm not sure if windows supports a third party mouse pointer; possibly not...

[MulletMan]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure windows doesn't support two mouse pointers. You may be able to download some software that would allow you to do it, but other than that... good luck!

[Shamus]

Interesting idea.. two mouse pointers at a time..

[Xelopheris]

Just increase your mouse acceleration speed. You'll get across the screen faster.

[SileNceR]

im not sure how even third party software would handle it, the interface driver would be ok, but it'd need to steal the pointer from the first mouse to actually interact, then replace it again; whenever things were clicked etc... so you'd get mouse lag on the primary mouse when clicking the secondary...

[chrisv]

I don't think it has been tried or at least achieved on any OS. Two mice under Windows only control one pointer.

[Liquor_Riss]

At 7 in the morning after being up all night playing who can click the link on their side of the screen first using 2 mice controlling 1 pointer isn't such a bad game ;)

[Space-Bot]

You'd think there would be a way to emulate another mouse point, all it is is a focus selecter and activator. Sure it might mess games up, but one could disable it then.

[brentech]

Considering it only takes about 3-4 inches to scroll across 1280 pixels..i can't imagine it being any harder on duel display.
I've used my friends computer which has duel LCDs, and I just don't think there is much use for a duel mouse setup.

The reason I see this is
a) it's not really hard to get from point 'a' to 'b'
b) how productive can you really be with a mouse in each hand??

When you click an object with one mouse..you take the attention from that program and draw up another. I just don't think the OS wants to deal with that, because then you would need to be able to have 2 windows "on top". So in all reality, using 2 mouses would be pretty much void.

If I were you -- I'd just go to the mouse control panel and turn up the scroll speed. Seems like the only logical fix to me.