I have been using Wacom tablets with both the Wacom stylus and Wacom mouse for over 20 years on a (3) monitor set-up. The Wacom software drivers have a thing called "mapping mode" which can be set to either "mouse-mode" or "pen-mode". In Wacom's infinite wisdom they have discontinued the Wacom "mouse" in recent years and after Big Sur there is not driver support for their older tablets (that still support both pen and mouse). This has me in a real bind.
In "pen-mode" the Wacom Driver allows you to define an area on the tablet and map that area to cover all three monitors as though it is a single monitor. Pen-mode also enables "absolute-tracking" so that if you move the stylus OR mouse in that defined virtual area on the tablet, the cursor instantly moves to the corresponding position across all 3 monitors. This behavior still works on the newer tablets (which I also have) as long as you use one of their pens, but they have dropped support of their mouse in the latest drivers (and moving forward).
Using a pen (stylus) for daily navigation across multiple monitors is clumsy at best where the mouse is far superior. I use the Wacom pens inside Photoshop and Illustrator, but for desktop navigation it is a nightmare. I watch training videos on YouTube where people attempt to you a tablet/pen to navigate and those people just struggle trying to select things accurately (so it is not just me!).
The best solution would be for Wacom to reintroduce their mouse and driver support for it, but that appears to be unlikely - when I have contacted them, they insist that a stylus is better or everything - just not true.
Since they are bullish on this position, I will be moving away from Wacom tablets for 90% of my daily navigation (using it with a pen only inside of Photoshop and Illustrator when pen pressure is of value AND you are only working on a single monitor generally on an image).
So my question is, does anyone know of an alternative to the Wacom mouse that would behave as it has in pen-mode? Does anyone sell a 3rd party mouse with a software driver that maybe allows you to map an area of your desk surface to a multiple-monitor configuration or maybe another tablet manufacturer that does what Wacom used to?
In "pen-mode" the Wacom Driver allows you to define an area on the tablet and map that area to cover all three monitors as though it is a single monitor. Pen-mode also enables "absolute-tracking" so that if you move the stylus OR mouse in that defined virtual area on the tablet, the cursor instantly moves to the corresponding position across all 3 monitors. This behavior still works on the newer tablets (which I also have) as long as you use one of their pens, but they have dropped support of their mouse in the latest drivers (and moving forward).
Using a pen (stylus) for daily navigation across multiple monitors is clumsy at best where the mouse is far superior. I use the Wacom pens inside Photoshop and Illustrator, but for desktop navigation it is a nightmare. I watch training videos on YouTube where people attempt to you a tablet/pen to navigate and those people just struggle trying to select things accurately (so it is not just me!).
The best solution would be for Wacom to reintroduce their mouse and driver support for it, but that appears to be unlikely - when I have contacted them, they insist that a stylus is better or everything - just not true.
Since they are bullish on this position, I will be moving away from Wacom tablets for 90% of my daily navigation (using it with a pen only inside of Photoshop and Illustrator when pen pressure is of value AND you are only working on a single monitor generally on an image).
So my question is, does anyone know of an alternative to the Wacom mouse that would behave as it has in pen-mode? Does anyone sell a 3rd party mouse with a software driver that maybe allows you to map an area of your desk surface to a multiple-monitor configuration or maybe another tablet manufacturer that does what Wacom used to?