iPad Sidecar in Portrait works but mouse movement is "horizontal" and mouse does not interact with screen content - how to fix this?

[peterinjapan]

So I got the virtual screen to work in portrait mode, and it's pretty cool. But there are two problems:

1. The iPad is in portrait mode, but the mouse moves in horizontal mode. So if I move the mouse into the monitor everything is roteaded 90 degrees on the side.

2. Clicking anything inside the iPad screen has no functionality, nothing reacts including icons in Google Chrome. Is this normal?

[waydabber]

Hi there - you should have both the virtual screen and the iPad in your display layout, but the iPad should show the rotated streamed virtual screen. So if you want to interact with what's on the screen, you should move the cursor to the virtual screen, not the iPad. It is best to arrange the virtual screen to where you would want the iPad to be in the layout and move the iPad to some corner or some location where the mouse does not wander over easily.

When the mouse is on the iPad, it just hovers over the streamed content of the virtual screen - that's why it can't seemingly interact with on-screen contents and appears unrotated.

(note: i plan to add it a bit more obvious when the mouse is just hovering over the streamed content instead of actually being on the virtual screen to avoid confusions like this).

[laeoe]

Hey there,
just wondering: Is there a straight forward way to hide the 'wrongly' oriented ipad screen such that i only interact with the virtual stream (besides moving the ipad screen to a corner)?

thanks 🫶

[Ender-Wang]

It would be nicer to add such a reminder somewhere in Rotated sidecar wiki that you need to rearrange your displays in Display settings after the virtual screen setup.