[Mouse Jump] Customisable appearance - borders, margins, colours, etc

[mikeclayton]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

I've just released a new set of configuration options for FancyMouse that gives a bit of control over the visual appearance of the preview popup by adding configurable margins, borders, padding and background settings for the main preview form and the individual miniature screenshots.

Would this functionality be of any value in Mouse Jump?

If so, I'll send a PR with the changes...

Below are some sample preview popup forms based on customised configurations settings:

Scenario when this would be used?

If users of Mouse Jump want to customise the appearance to, e.g. visually separate the individual screenshots either with spacing or a border around them, or change the colour scheme to make a stronger contrast and make it easier to find when the pop-up is activated

Supporting information

See here for some more details

• https://github.com/mikeclayton/FancyMouse/releases/tag/v0.0.15-preview

and here for some documentation

• https://github.com/mikeclayton/FancyMouse/blob/main/wiki/config/advanced_config.md

The original inspiration was a request in the FancyMouse repo to implement this behaviour:

• Configurable display borders mikeclayton/FancyMouse#19

[mdrejhon]

Would this functionality be of any value in Mouse Jump?

If so, I'll send a PR with the changes...

I vote yes, as there's also thumbnail-size configurability. The boom of WFH means I think Microsoft should add this to update to the "Mouse Jump" feature of the PowerToy

A great use case is very odd multimonitor systems, where it's hard to move mouse cursor between them.

• Random office hotelling desks where you don't want to keep reconfiguring multimonitor layout in Display Settings
• Laptop on floor/coffeetable connected to TV
• Students who randomly connect to school displays, in awkward positions (cable length constraints)
• Two televisions opposite each other at opposite walls
• Odd angled restaurant menuboard systems where 3 walls have the displays linked to one computer
• A display very diagonally away from another display (e.g. laptop on table vs bar TV high on wall)
• Display laboratories where you randomly hook a laptop a number of random displays
• Common and uncommon use cases like above

TL;DR: This upgrade makes it super easy to teleport mouse pointer between displays -- without knowing the layout of multimonitor

Ever been frustrated trying to slam a mouse pointer against a screen edge?

The previous version had too-big thumbnails, but this version now is configurable to display screen thumbnails more compactly, in a way that is more appropriate for this type of use case where you just want to "aim at a monitor", not "aim precisely within a monitor".

With this version, the thumbnails can be shrinked to become large clickable buttons -- that behave as "Click a screen thumbnail to teleport mouse pointer over there"

Goodbye fruitless screen-edge pointer slamming for odd/random multimonitor!