in rotated sidecar, mouse starts ignoring orientation and shows popup: "does not interact with it" in portrait virtual screen

[mkarikom]

Everything was working great following the steps in this wiki entry on rotated sidecar virtual screens.

Then all of a sudden my mouse decides its running in landscape mode and spawns a weird rotating dashed halo that looks like:

[waydabber]

When you stream the contents (with rotation) of the virtual screen to the Sidecar display, both displays are accessible with the mouse. If you move the mouse to the virtual screen, then you can interact with the contents of the virtual screen, but if you move the mouse to the Sidecar display, then the mouse hovers over the streamed content and can't iteract with the virtual screen - this is signified by the halo. In this case you can use right click to bring up the context menu and adjust the streamed image or warp the mouse over to the virtual screen stream source.

Hope this helps! :)

[mkarikom]

thanks @waydabber,

As I remember, what happened was that I

1. hit a snag with my arrangement during a sleep/wake cycle
2. cycled sidecar and my virtual screen to resolve this, and then
3. forgot to "arrange" the sidecar host back to the opposite corner of the main screen to prevent accidental pointer ingress.

As it stands this package is the only solution for sidecar portrait, which makes it essential 🙏 for me.

However, it would be super helpful to definitively mask the sidecar host!