Do this with all the displays you want to move. When you're happy with the layout, select Apply. Test your new layout by moving your mouse pointer across the different displays to make sure it works like you expect.
After you're connected to your external displays, you can change settings like your resolution, screen layout, and more. Windows will recommend an orientation for your screen.
If you change the orientation of a monitor, you'll also need to physically rotate the screen. For example, you'd rotate your external display to use it in portrait instead of landscape. Here's what you can choose. See your desktop across multiple screens.
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Many people will have a 14in or 15in monitor just laying around unused. You can pick up a cheap video card from a computer store or computer fair; just make sure that it is XP compatible. Installing a second card and monitor is a fairly simple affair, but it is necessary to open up the computer.
If you are not comfortable with opening your computer, then get a friend to do it for you or take it to your local computer store. The basic steps required are set out below. Turn off your computer and remove the casing.
Plug the second monitor into the card. Turn on your computer. Windows XP will detect the new video card and install the appropriate drivers. If you have additional drivers for the card, then by all means use them instead of the default XP ones. The most recent drivers will not only be technically superior, they often boast features that you will not find in the default drivers.
Open Display from the Control Panel. When working on monitor four, you have need of things that only are available on the menu. The menu being on the far away monitor is the problem.
What these people are missing is that you can and do use the other monitors to work separately from the work being done on the monitor on the other side. This is not always the case but it is frequently. The setup is in my den and I sit at a big overstuffed chair with the iMac to my left on an end table. The swing arm monitor is used to pull the screen in front of me so I can look at it without having to twist my neck. A solution could be to make it my primary monitor but the problem with that is that I frequently disconnect the swing arm monitor and put it away.
This is true when we have guests. Another use is we will watch a movie or hulu show on the swing arm monitor because I can easily swing it around for easy viewing by everyone.
Both of these things would be better with a menu on the monitor in use rather than on a distant one. Like other posts, I came here looking for a solution to my frustration and regret that I am stuck with this problem. I also came here to see what kind of idiot would make such a blatantly bold and ridiculous statement as to say a XP is better than OS X. I stand corrected.
In addition, if this problem were present on a Windoze environment, I submit someone would have written a utility to work around it. The work around community seems to be much stronger on the Windoze side. Having said all that, I still love my Mac and will not give up on it. I may have to get some software development tools to create a workable solution on my own. Having the menu be part of the window or at least follow the window definitely makes more sense in the multi-monitor scenario.
I never really understood why Apple is famous for more intuitive UI design. And since Apple refuses to allow anyone else to build the hardware they do not want to build or offer i. If Apple could tax you for the air you breathe, they probably would…unless you subscribe to iTunes and buy at least 5 songs a month and name your first born Steve. This is where OS X comes off smelling like roses for the most part except for this multiple monitor business and an utter disdain and lack of support for in both software and especially hardware until recently games.
Apple could solve their multiple monitor issues as outlined above with two simple changes and they could even offer it as an option in the monitor preference pane. Why should I EVER have to move over to another entire screen just to get to the dock same goes for Windows start menu and task bar, BTW, which also only appear on one screen to access such basic functions and tools?
Just have it there all the time on all screens just as it would be if you only had one monitor. They sell products they want to SELL. They do well when those two accidentally coincide e. Ironically, Linux has solutions and new problems for the multiple monitor situation. On the one hand, you can have two entirely separate spaces and each monitor can have its own task bars, docks or whatever you want Linux has endless options, which also means it lacks unified standards coherence and thus commercial software but this system has one major drawback and that is you cannot move windows between monitors at all.
Or you can have something similar to Windows and OS X with the ability to move programs between screens with the added ability in KDE to ADD extra start and taskbars to the 2nd display imagine that!
Everyone just does whatever they want in the Linux world and so you get a lot of anarchy. And where Mac users are fanatics that often have little actual knowledge, Linux users usually have a lot of knowledge but no people skills and serious god complexes.
Windows, of course, has bugs, viruses, spyware and bloat. NONE of them are ideal. Mac OS is an inferior to Windows when it comes to usability in nearly every area. Before fixing dual-monitor support, Apple should write a decent mouse pointer-balistics slgorithm in OS X mouse driver so we dont have to use 3rd party drivers to relieve strain on our wrists , completely rewrite Finder what a joke of a file manager this thing is!
Marketing clowns! One year of pain is enough …. Since this was posted, I have moved to 3 screens. The problem still persists. This is indeed a design issue with OS X. On a Mac you can put icons anywhere you want to, in the dock, in the menu bar, or make an alias of an original.
On the Pro there is a dual input jack card for the monitors. In terms of setting up, OS X wins hands down. It automatically detects monitors without having to reboot — you can swap in a new one even while the OS is running. This is massively useful if you tend to move the CPU box around a lot.
In my case, for example, I have a inch Powerbook. All I have to do is put the Powerbook to sleep, unplug it from one site and then plug it into the other site and it automatically recognises the new setup. In terms of usability, I agree Windows XP is better. This is not so bad IF the drive icons and dock were actually movable, so that you can keep the menu bar on the screen where you open apps the most, and have the drive icons and dock on another monitor to clear more space for the app.
What Apple needs to do is allow dynamic movement of the desktop icons. In Windows XP, you can select and move the desktop icons — including the trashcan and start bar — wherever you like. In Windows XP you are in control. But the big thing is: The low overall support for multi monitors on Windows sucks really badly compared to the Mac for one big reason: Losing Windows.
Example: I use a laptop closed with 2 monitors connected. When I disconnect, often an application will be orphaned over on the now non existent monitor.
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