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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1945911" data-attributes="member: 396914">That is going to be nearly impossible. The issue is not the mouse, but the cursor input. Any given user has ONE cursor, and that cursor location defines the &quot;focus&quot; for the system so that any clicks on the mouse affects THAT location. But if there are two cursors and the system receives a &quot;click&quot; signal, it doesn't know which mouse sent the signal, and which cursor to react to. Also, if there were two complete systems simultaneously running for a two-mouse setup, you would still have to move the mouses around when doing things like cut-paste from one to the other, for example. There would have to be two clipboards for the various mouse inputs, so if you cut with Mouse 1 and want to paste into document 2, you would have to move Mouse 1 to Document 2 even if Mouse 2 was already there. You wold not want the two clipboards to mix/match actions like that because of the potential to really make a mess of things.Frankly, I would think the effort to move from one mouse to another would be greater than moving the cursor from one document to another. You can set the mouse acceleration to be such that a short, sharp movement gets from one screen to the other, the slow down to get exactly where you want in the new document. That's how I use one mouse with two screens, and it seems to work well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1945911, member: 396914"] That is going to be nearly impossible. The issue is not the mouse, but the cursor input. Any given user has ONE cursor, and that cursor location defines the "focus" for the system so that any clicks on the mouse affects THAT location. But if there are two cursors and the system receives a "click" signal, it doesn't know which mouse sent the signal, and which cursor to react to. Also, if there were two complete systems simultaneously running for a two-mouse setup, you would still have to move the mouses around when doing things like cut-paste from one to the other, for example. There would have to be two clipboards for the various mouse inputs, so if you cut with Mouse 1 and want to paste into document 2, you would have to move Mouse 1 to Document 2 even if Mouse 2 was already there. You wold not want the two clipboards to mix/match actions like that because of the potential to really make a mess of things. Frankly, I would think the effort to move from one mouse to another would be greater than moving the cursor from one document to another. You can set the mouse acceleration to be such that a short, sharp movement gets from one screen to the other, the slow down to get exactly where you want in the new document. That's how I use one mouse with two screens, and it seems to work well. [/QUOTE]

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