Visiting cursor
A visit lends one machine's mouse and keyboard to another without moving the other machine's own cursor. Push the pointer past the edge that faces a…
A visit lends one machine's mouse and keyboard to another without moving the
other machine's own cursor. Push the pointer past the edge that faces a paired
host and it parks there, frozen. From then on your mouse drives a coral
visitor on the host, labelled with your machine's name, the way a screen
share shows a second cursor. Your keys type on the host. Nothing on the host
asks for a new permission: the visit rides the companion bridge's pairing, and
needs the input.trackpad capability that pairing already grants.
A visit ends when:
- the visitor goes back off the edge it came in by;
- you press ⌃⌥⌘ Home, or pick Bring Cursor Home from the menu bar;
- someone at the host runs
lattices-host mouse-home(see Ending a visit from the host); - the channel drops, or either side stops hearing from the other for 6 seconds.
Your own cursor never left, so ending a visit can't strand it.
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