dual-monitor

Dual Monitor Window Management for MS Windows

I am sure I could get some great suggestions here since I am sure a large percentage of the StackOverflow user base could help me out here. Like most dev's I have dual monitor setup at work, and a gazillion windows open at the time, and often need to ping them back and forward between the two. Reaching for the mouse all the time, quite...

How do you force a .net application to display on a particular monitor in a dual monitor setup?

I would like to run multiple copies of my application and force the first to open on one monitor and the second instance on a second monitor ...

Is there any way to get a dual monitor view inside of a remote desktop session?

I frequently have to remote into my work desktop using rdp. One pain point has always been that I have a dual screen setup at home, but am unable to take advantage of it because the rdp session only uses 1 screen. My workaround up to this point has been to open a 2nd session to s different box on the secondary monitor and work that way. ...

How do I enable a second monitor in C#

Is it possible to enable a second monitor and extend the Windows Desktop onto in C#. It needs to do the equivalent of turning on the checkbox in the image below? ...

Vmware dual monitor problem

Hi, I am running VMware under windows on a dell d630 laptop. I am using the laptop monitor plus an external lcd, with the vmware maximized on an lcd and windows running on the laptop monitor. The lcd is much larger and therefore has larger resolution. When I minimize and then maximize under windows, the vmware window is minimized, but ...

Xcode window positions when switching from dual to single monitor

When I'm working at home I plug my MacBook in to my 20" monitor as a second (right side) monitor. I do all my editing in Xcode on the larger monitor, and leave the menu bar, debugging and documentation on the laptop's monitor. The problem is when I disconnect from the second monitor and want to work on code in "laptop" mode. Now, whene...

How to solve this focus problem with a dual monitor application?

We have an application that uses a dual monitor setup - User A will work with Monitor 1, and user B will work with Monitor 2 simultaneously. Monitor 2 is a touch screen device. Now, the problem is, when User A types something in his screen, if User B tries to do something, User A will end up in losing the focus from his window, which is...

Maintain multiple Visual Studio user options (suo) profiles

I work in two environments with Visual Studio 2008: my laptop and my laptop+external monitor. When I work with a second monitor, I like for my solution explorer and other non-code windows to be on the second monitor, and my laptop screen to be just code files. It's a bit of a pain to rearrange windows every day as I switch between enviro...

Showing a window with WPF, Winforms, and Dual monitors

I have a 2 monitors and a WinForm app that launches a WPF window. I want to get the screen that the WinForm is on, and show the WPF window on the same screen. How can I do this? ...

Need TwinView Help with NVidia

Hello all, I am trying to set up dual monitors on ubuntu 8.10 and am having a lot of difficulty. I have tried going through many tutorials with no luck so I figure I will try here as well. For some reason my computer does not detect my Dell S199WFP monitor. It only lets me run it at maximum 640x480 resolution. The optimum resolution fo...

Visual Studio always on top when debugging

When I start debugging the project we are currently working on, the program window is not given proper focus in windows but is stacked behind the Visual Studio window. I don't think this problem occurs on any of my team members computers, so it looks like it's a problem on my system. Is there a setting in VS2008 for always on top or som...

New applications open in wrong x screen in Ubuntu

I have a dual monitor setup and each has its own x screen in Ubuntu 9.04. Everything works as it should in screen 0. When I open an application in screen 1 (using any menu, e.g., Applications, Places, etc.), it opens in screen 0 instead of screen 1. So to get an application to open in screen 1, I hit - and type the program name. This al...

Why would This Fix the Dual Monitor Issue in Flash?

The Problem: You have dual monitors set up and view a Flash video (Let's say any YouTube video) in full screen mode in one of the monitors. If you work on the other monitor, the video would exit the full screen mode. Therefore, you cannot work while watching video in fullscreen mode. The Solution: A Google search yields this brillia...

How do you quickly enable/disable a monitor?

Is there any alternative to UltraMon to be able to quickly turn a screen on and off. I'm using multiple monitors and but have a piece of software with features that doesn't work when two monitors are enabled. Windows Vista, nvidia, using the windows control panel currently. ...

Software like Synergy that also works with windows

I'm using Synergy to control both a desktop and a laptop with a single set of mouse/keyboard. Unfortunately my desktop monitor is rather small (to programmer standards). I'd like to drag windows from my desktop and carry them to the laptop Is there any software that can do this? ...

Multiple monitor window management utilities

I have multiple monitors. I use these utilities to help with window management: UltraMon - a taskbar on each monitor Taskix - click and drag to reorder taskbar buttons GridMove - middle-click and drag to resize/reposition windows to half the screen But they don't really play well with each other: Taskix doesn't allow me to move bu...

Opening a new browser page on the second monitor.

Well, simple situation. Is it possible to detect if a user has a dual monitor setup from a web application? If this is possible, is it possible to open a child browser page on this second monitor, so the new window doesn't overlap the old one? Reason why I ask: I'm working on a web application and at home I have a dual-monitor system. W...

wpf window ghosting problem when resizing over two screens

The title pretty much describes it. If I resize my WPF app so that it stretches over two monitors in a dual monitor setup, and resize it back, there will be a ghost window in the second monitor that does nothing, but is still moved when I move the original window in the first screen. Has anyone had issues like this? I think its a refres...

Silverlight - Dual Screens in Out of Browser Application

Is there any way to create a Silverlight "Out of Browser" Application that can have two windows each on it's own screen and have these two windows communicate? Apparently in Silverlight 4 you can "Control over aspects of UI include window settings such as start position, size and chrome" so automatically placing the windows on each scr...

Show dialog/frame fullscreen on a second sceen sing QT/c++

I have an application with a secondary view that should be shown fullscreen on the other monitor (the one the main app is not on). Displaying the frame works quite well with frame.showFullScreen(); But, how can I tell it which screen it should be on? Is there a way to detect if a second screen is avauilable, as well? ...