Mouse jiggler question
Works great, but the jiggle runs back to the machine I'm working from.
I run RDM as an elevated account (as I need to run various things as elevated for them to work) and for some reason even if RDM is not in focus, when the mouse moved in the VM from the jiggler, it moves it on my machine. It jumps the mouse all the way to the screen where RDM is and moves around in a circle. This means if I'm a screen or 2 over my mouse cursor yeets itself to the other side of my work space.
Can this be prevented? While the RDP tab in RDM is not actively in focus, can it not allow bidirectional input?
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This is definitely odd, I haven't seen this behavior before. Does it happen if RDM runs without elevation? One thing you could try is changing the default RDP mouse jiggler method to "function key" instead of "mouse move". There's a screenshot showing the RDP mouse jiggler options in the announcement blog post: https://blog.devolutions.net/2023/11/whats-new-in-remote-desktop-manager-20233/
The function key method injects F15 keyboard events instead of moving the mouse by 1 pixel back and forth. Most applications ignore F15 but it is sufficient to "jiggle".
Best regards,
Marc-André Moreau
Can you tell me which RDP server this is, and if it is a special kind of shared RDP session (shadowing? third-party server?) I have one theory which could explain the reverse mouse movement, but it is rare: RDP servers can send mouse position events when it thinks the mouse has been moved independently from the client. This normally only happens in shared RDP sessions with multiple users, but not within an RDP session controlled by a single client. There's an internal "IgnoreServerGeneratedMouseMoves" option which we don't use right now that can be used to tell the RDP client to ignore those events. If this is it, then switching to to the "function key" jiggler method should fix your problem.
Best regards,
Marc-André Moreau
Sorry this took so long. Thanks to my ADHD, I completely forgot I put this in.
It's a connection to any of the VMWare machines we use. Standard RDP connection from my personally purchased RDM Enterprise.
I'll test the F15 option and see if that gets be better results.
As for running without it being ran as elevated, I can test that at some point to see if that happens. However I run a bunch of tools through RDM that need to be ran with an admin account and it's just easier to run the entire app as that account.
Hello Zabolyx,
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