multiple monitor make mouse right-click menu come up in wrong location

[EngrStudent]

I have an additional monitor that uses HDMI to connect.  When I connect LabVIEW it displays the right-click menu about half a screen away from the mouse cursor.  Is there a fix for that?

[User002]

I haven't experienced this personally, but I've read about it on these forums before.

Take a look at these two links:

Solved: Right clicking displays the menu far away from the mouse (4k montior) - NI Community - Natio...

Menu Displayed Far From Cursor in LabVIEW - National Instruments

Do either of those help?

-joeorbob

[paul_cardinale]

It happens when the display scaling (Windows) is set differently on the two monitors.  It's annoying.  I don't know a solution.

[RavensFan]

The solution is to make the scaling the same on both monitors.

[paul_cardinale]

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@RavensFan wrote:

The solution is to make the scaling the same on both monitors.

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Not necessarily.  Most of the time I need my two monitors scaled differently (so that's how I keep it).  Usually when I right-click on something in LV, it's on monitor 1 and it works OK.  Sometimes I do it on monitor 2, so the menu is in the wrong spot.  I just put up with it.  For me there is no solution.

[RavensFan]

You can have two different resolutions, but you cannot have two different scales (e.g., one had 100%, the other at 125%).

Usually the problem is caused with the different scaling, but also having a window like the navigation or context help windows on the other screen.

There IS a fix for the menus coming up in the wrong spot, and that is to make the scaling match.

If you insist on having different scales, then you are correct that there is no fix for that.

[EngrStudent · Accepted solution]

I just learned something new.  Windows 8 has a "scale" that is not the same as resolution.  My second monitor had its scale setting at "125%" instead of "100%".  I can't imagine why, but that is what it was.  

To adjust it I did this:

1. right click on the desktop 
2. scroll down to display settings and select
3. In the display window, select the monitor of interest
4. scroll down to "scale and layout"
5. confirm that "scale" is set equally between monitors

Note: you can set different resolutions between monitors, so there might be some accessibility-related wiggle room there.