Windowed Mode + Multiple Monitors (can't type)

[edmundlp]

Macbook connected to two additional monitors using DualHead2Go external video card.

While using CORD, if you are connected to two servers while using Windowed Mode and one of the servers is on the secondary monitor, you are unable to type or use your mouse on that computer. Only happens in Windowed Mode. If I am in Unified Mode, I can drag CORD to the second monitor and still work while connected to two servers fine. It's only the Windowed mode that is a problem.

[edmundlp]

Sorry, I should have mentioned this happens after starting out in Unified mode, then switching to Windowed mode and moving the server to the second monitor. As a test, I closed all servers and changed to Windowed mode first, then connected to two servers and was able to drag a server to the second monitor and use my mouse / keyboard successfully.

[peelman]

USB video cards are notoriously terrible at, well, everything. CoRD uses graphical acceleration heavily (as does most of OS X, which is why USB display adapters present a terrible experience compared to actual, supported configurations), so you're going to see weird ass issues.

If you need multiple external displays, then I recommend you pick up a Retina Macbook Pro, or switch to an iMac, Mac Mini, or Mac Pro.

[edmundlp]

Appreciate the response. But, CORD is the only piece of software I have experienced this issue with. I multitask heavily during the day moving windows around with no issues.

I will try CORD in Windows Mode first, before connecting to a server instead of Unified Mode, then switching to Windowed.

From: Nick Peelman <notifications@github.commailto:notifications@github.com>
Reply-To: dorianj/CoRD <reply@reply.github.commailto:reply@reply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 05:14:36 -0800
To: dorianj/CoRD <CoRD@noreply.github.commailto:CoRD@noreply.github.com>
Cc: Ed Piasecki <ed.piasecki@sympleday.commailto:ed.piasecki@sympleday.com>
Subject: Re: [CoRD] Windowed Mode + Multiple Monitors (can't type) (#59)

USB video cards are notoriously terrible at, well, everything. CoRD uses graphical acceleration heavily (as does most of OS X, which is why USB display adapters present a terrible experience compared to actual, supported configurations), so you're going to see weird ass issues.

If you need multiple external displays, then I recommend you pick up a Retina Macbook Pro, or switch to an iMac, Mac Mini, or Mac Pro.

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[peelman]

And you’re not the first person to report this issue using those very same graphics adapters. The thing is, there are few users of CoRD who aren’t heavy multi-taskers, including myself, there are a lot of multi-monitor rigs, and 9 times out of 10, the issues disappear when those adapters go away.

if you are able to hunt down the specific issue and resolve it without any regressions, we’d happily take the patch. but as it is, we neither have, nor want, the hardware to test with, nor have the motivation to solve an edge case that’s technically unsupported anyway.