Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware, Windows x64
Edgeless removes screen borders, lets your pointer wrap around
by Lee Mathews Apr 21st 2009 at 1:00PM
Edgeless may be the hardest program I've ever had to screen capture. It's incredibly simple in what it does, but a static image just won't do it - hence the short YouTube clip.
It's a small, single-function application that allows your mouse to wrap from one edge of your screen to the other instead of stopping abruptly when you reach the end. Edgeless can save a bit of wear-and-tear on your mouse or trackpad since it's sometimes a shorter trip to wrap around than backtrack across your screen.
Launch Edgeless, and it hides out in the system tray. There's nothing to configure, save whether or not you want the application to run at startup. The application is also totally portable, weighs in at a scant 272Kb, and uses less than 1Mb of memory when running.
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Josh said 2:05PM on 4-21-2009
Basic UI design puts most important items at the very edge of the screen because it is easier to hit them due to the pointer stopping as soon as it hits the edge. It's easier to push until stopped than to stop on something in the middle of a space. This completely undermines that. =\
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Lee Mathews said 2:13PM on 4-21-2009
To each his own. I find this very useful, especially for left to right. The only UI elements there are scrollbars in most of my apps anyway.
Besides, undermining things is fun.
mvp said 3:06PM on 4-21-2009
Yup at first i thought it was awesome. That was until I had to spend an extra 5 sec whenever trying to close a maximized window or even hitting the start button.
You don't realize how nice borders are until they're gone...
rothgar said 2:18PM on 4-21-2009
Input Director also has this feature built in. It obviously is used for other things than just this. But it would also be an alternative for people.
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Atanas Boev said 3:45PM on 4-21-2009
Lee, about the screen capture. Go to Display Properties->Settings->Advanced->Troubleshoot. Decrease Hardware Acceleration to 3 (it says ...disable cursor acceleration...). When you do that, the cursor can be placed halfway in one display and halfway in other (or, halfway over the wraparound in your case). Then, you set the display res to QVGA and print screen.
Lowering Hardware Acceleration allows print-screen to be used in some hard cases - like frame capture from WMP, etc.
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Bryan Price said 7:24PM on 4-21-2009
Not real sure how handy that would be in multi-monitor mode, and it probably wouldn't be good if you're running Synergy (although I think you can make Synergy do this...)
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bcurran said 9:03PM on 4-21-2009
Huge issue with this program. If you have a hidden Start Menu it will not come up with this program running. I installed it and then immediately uninstalled it once I realized this was the case. There needs to be options to work left to right only or top to bottom only or both.
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