No mouse control on mac after Windows locks

[jworsdell]

What happened

If windows locks, then the mac mouse cannot be used at all, it wont return to the screen no matter what, and cannot be used on the locked windows pc either.

Solution: unlock the windows computer and use the windows mouse to go back onto the mac screen, from there the mac mouse is unlocked.

Beamer version

1.4.2

macOS version

macOS 27.0

Windows version

Windows 11 Pro 25h2

Which way round

Both, or not sure

Logs

No response

[TK9443]

Thanks, that reproduces in the code. Beamer can't send input to Windows' lock screen or see the pointer there, so once the PC locked, the push back to the Mac never fired. The fix sends the Mac its keyboard and mouse back as soon as the PC locks, and it'll be in the next update. Until then, the double-tap on Right Option on the Mac should bring input home; if even that doesn't, unlocking the PC as you did is the way out.

[TK9443]

This is fixed in 1.4.3, out now: https://github.com/kalkman-code/beamer/releases/tag/v1.4.3. Beamer will offer the update itself, or you can grab it from that page. If the mouse still gets stuck when the PC locks, let me know.