Questions tagged [multiple-monitors]
For questions about connecting multiple monitors to a single computer either desktop or laptop.
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New NVIDIA drivers blacks out one of dual monitor setup
I have a NVIDIA GTX 590 running version 365.19 drivers. I have a BenQ XL2420Z and a Spectre monitor. Whenever I update my drivers to anything after 365.19, my BenQ monitor goes into some sort of "...
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Windows10 fullscreening a window won't actually fullscreen
I have a multi monitor setup (3, with different resolutions), Windows 10 and AMD R9 380. All drivers/software are up to date. This started to happen after fresh Win7->Win10 installation.
Windows ...
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External monitor delay lag with windows 10
On my win 10 laptop when I plugged an external monitor I noticed there's a lag.
Like when i switch between programs (from Starcraft 2 back to desktop).
I clone the monitor so it shows the same ...
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How to use 2 external monitors, #1 duplicating laptop screen and #2 extending Win7 desktop
I have a Lenovo W520 laptop running Windows 7, and 2 external monitors. My docking station supports this; I can have a 3-monitor desktop (laptop + 2 monitors) and it works fine. They are all 1920x1200....
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How can I play a full screen video across multiple monitors?
Is it possible to play a full screen video across nine screens?
I want this for my chain of shops to display my video on a big display. The video will be played on a player such as VLC.
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Change display resolution from command line / batch file
I know similar questions have been asked before, but i am looking to change the display resolution and scanline order (Progressive / Interlaced) on multiple monitors using the command line.
The ...
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Windows 10 Project screens are backwards
I'm running Windows 10 with all the latest updates. When I click on Project from the Settings menu my screens are backwards. It says my 2 primary monitors (DVI) are my "Secondary Screen" and my ...
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Ubuntu 15.04 second monitor is blank with blinking LED
I have a VisionTek Radeon card with 3 DVI outputs. I've connected one to a DVI monitor and the second to a VGA monitor using an adapter. Both show up in settings|display and Catalyst, but the VGA one ...
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Putting taskbar position on TOP cuts off bottom of programs
So this is a very strange and fairly irritating issue I have with Windows 10. On my primary monitor, with the taskbar positioned on top; certain parts of my programs often get cut off and overflow ...
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Dual monitors stopped working DVI-I DVI-D Nvidia GTX 960 Windows 10
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 v373.06, two monitor ports; one DVI-I and one DVI-D (both dual links).
2 x Benq GW2320 LCD monitors connected with DVI-D cables, monitor 1 running 1920x1080 ...
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Sharing desktop in Skype for business only works with one of my monitors
I have a setup with my laptop (Fujitsu Celsius H760, Windows 10 Enterprise) in a docking station and two monitors attached. The laptop has two graphics chips, the built-in Intel and an NVidia chip. It ...
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Can't display windows taskbar systray on second screen?
I have access to the actual task bar, what I am missing is the systray. The sound/battery indicator/Wi-Fi/show desktop buttons. They appear on my main screen but I would like them to be on my other ...
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One home, one PC
I'm an avid gamer and power user of my PC. My PC is a high spec, 3 monitor machine that I often push to the limit. What I'd like to do is be able to access this power from any room in the house, ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 Multi-Head + Xinerama + Compiz General Performance Proplems
Alright, so I ran into a problem, I have two Nvidia Cards one of them which is integrated.
I have configured Xorg on the Nvidia property drivers and used nvidia-xconfig and nvidia-settings to ...
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is it possible to make Windows highlight the active window/app?
I've been working with Windows for a long time. A few years ago my work environment got us a second monitor to use. It was fantastic, my productivity went up. Love it!
However, there's one thing that ...
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How can I force taskbar buttons to ALWAYS be on the same display as their windows in Windows 10?
I've got multiple displays, and I've selected the option for each display to have its own taskbar and for the taskbars to show the buttons only for the windows that are on those displays:
For most ...
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Windows 10 Session restarting + no graphic card
I have a weird issue:
My setup has 2 screens plugged with DVI, and one TV with HDMI, all on my GTX460 video card (drivers up to date).
Sometimes (I think it's when I am gaming and watching video, it ...
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Connect Respberry 3 to VGA monitor using HDMI to VGA Converter
I have 2 devices Device A and B and a LCD monitor M with VGA port.
Device A : Laptop Sony Vaio(HDMI output)
Device B : Respberrypi 3 (HDMI output)
Device S : Satellite dish TV Setup box(HDMI output).
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Dell XPS laptop, black screen before boot, but screen test works
Tl;dr Upon powering up the laptop, the power light, screen backlight, and keyboard backlight power on, but nothing otherwise appears on the monitor (no mouse, no boot screen, nothing). I have reason ...
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Connect Macbook Pro to Dell U2311H - HDMI to DisplayPort
I tried to connect my Macbook Pro (purchased 2015) with a Dell U2311H monitor using an HDMI cable with a Rankie adapter between the HDMI port on the Macbook and the DisplayPort on the monitor, but the ...
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How to make text sharp both on 15" laptop screen and 27" external monitor?
Both screens are full HD resolution. On Laptop (15") I have set text size to 125% for readability.
On external monitor (27") is text size 100%, but the text is blurry. When changing the size to 125%,...
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Tell Windows program to stick to one monitor
I use a thin client with two monitors. For some reason the Windows connected to (via XenDesktop) seems to be rather confused about the concept. Lots of programs (including Internet Explorer) open new ...
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Tearing with tv and projector
I hope you can help me with, I recently bought a projector but I have a problem.
When I connect it via HDMI to my notebook I get tearing on both screens when I play some videos with scenes with a lot ...
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Is there anything else I can do to troubleshoot my 980ti?
I bought an Asus Strix 980ti about 5 months ago. I've been having problems with one of my monitors going in and out quickly. Like, every 3 seconds it shuts off, then back on. I thought my monitor ...
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Using 2 external monitors with a docking station connected to a laptop
I work from a mobile office (office setup in my RV). I have an ASUS laptop and 2 external LED monitors (Samsung & Acer). I have been trying to use the 2 monitors connected to my laptop via an HDMI ...
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Brightness control on multiple monitors in Windows 10 via software (non DDC)?
I have three displays on a Windows 10 system that need to have brightness of the displays controlled individually. Integrated LCD brightness controll is not sufficient; I must have additional ...
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How to change Windows 10 projector settings?
The projector shortcut Win+P is a nice way to switch between different monitors.
The problem with this is that it doesn't respect what you say is your main monitor.
So when I select main screen ...
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TV showing 1080P When my computer says it streams 4k (UHD)
So i've bought an LG 43UF680V And it's amazing, but here comes my problem: I have an ASUS X555UJ and in specs it can stream 4k throught HDMI. My screen size says it is 4k, but the tv info panel says ...
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Ubuntu, Dual Monitor - Issue on boot
I'm running Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 on a laptop on a dock with an outboard (desktop) display. When plugged in to the dock, I am only using the desktop display, not the laptop's. When I boot, the laptop ...
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Windows XP failed after adding second virtual display on a VirtualBox VM
Oracle VM VirtualBox failed when I added a monitor.
Under Oracle VM VirtualBox version 5.0.16 on Win10, I built and have been using a Windows XP virtual machine. I decided I wanted to add a second ...
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Multiple Monitor Setup with Display Port Daisy Chain
I recently purchased a Lenovo Workstation fitted with an Nvidia Quadro K620 (https://www.pny.com/nvidia-quadro-k620?sku=VCQK620-PB) which supports daisy chaining monitors over the DP 1.2 / MST ...
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Sliced and displaced image on monitor
We have a system where a monitor is hooked up to a PC through a KVM switch. The KVM switch switches the video output from the PC to different monitors but always one at a time and the same model ...
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DVI-D to VGA Adapter "Input Not Supported" on Startup
I've been tasked with increasing the number of monitors from 1 to 3 for a PC. This machine originally had a DVI-D connection straight to the monitor from the PC. My knowledge of DVI cables was not ...
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How can I stop my monitor turning itself off and on again every few seconds
I have two monitors connected to my windows laptop. Sometimes (particularly after resuming from a suspended state, but sometimes it just happens randomly too) the second monitor will go into a cycle ...
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Program turns black when I switch monitors
I have a docking station for my Lenovo work laptop, in which I have two monitors plugged in. Occasionally, when I take a program that's being displayed on my laptop monitor, the whole program will ...
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Connecting multiple "additional" monitors to duplicate displays from multiple computers
I have two desktop computers in Room 1, each of which have 2 monitors connected to them (1x VGA, 1x HDMI, each). These 2 monitors are dedicated to the individual computer they are attached to, and are ...
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How to create a Ghost Monitor in Windows 10
Ive made some research on the web and didn't found any answers and as its always been welcoming here here's my question.
Question:
Is it possible to make a Ghost Monitor ("Fake Monitor/Secondary ...
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Is it possible to override Intel 4000 2-display limit?
Intel's drivers don't allow using more than two displays (laptop +1 external, or 2 external and no laptop display), though we have some docks that use DisplayLink software that overrides this and ...
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Oculus DK2 + second monitor for displaying DK2 image (but not warped and stereoscopic)
we have the following process/toolchain and would like to have one question answered:
start Open Broadcaster Software (mirrors one screen to another screen, in our case Oculus VR DK2 image to normal ...
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Fedora 23 - Dual monitor Issue - Unwanted Mirroring
I cannot get my dual Asus monitors not to mirror, when using Fedora 23.
I had been using them without issue (screen sharing) on another HD with Kali, and also another HD with Windows 10. It's the ...
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One of my graphics cards no longer displays in Windows 7
I have a computer with two NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 graphics cards installed (let's call those G1 and G2). I have three monitors - two plugged into one card, one plugged into the other.
This setup has ...
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detecting powering off in external monitor
I use an external monitor using HDMI port connected to my laptop. Is there any way I can detect when the external monitor gets switched off due to external power cut?
I would like to move all my ...
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How to establish the primary and secondary monitors via MS Windows Registry
I would like to establish the primary and secondary monitors via MS Windows Registry and later to change their number.
I mean to make secondary monitor as primary and vise versa.
I have tried to ...
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Compiz/Unity - Focus window on specific monitor?
I'm on Ubuntu 15.10 using 4 monitors via an nvidia graphics card (dell XPS 8900). I almost always keep 4 full-screen applications (usually one of terminal, chrome or skype). Often I'll have multiples ...
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How do I disable a certain monitor, and enable it back only when it is on ?
I have 3 monitors connecting to the PC. I have them set up like this.
The third monitor (TV) keep showing/detecting in my PC even if it is not even ON, and make my windows goes up there. It's a bit ...
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How to fix Windows 10 text size issues without restarting
I use a 2560x1440 laptop which I connect to a 27" 1080p monitor to work with. When I start the laptop disconnected, and then connect it, I get very slight blurring around everything, as if higher ...
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I need a way to briefly prevent my mouse from switching between screens
So my multi-monitor setup looks like this:
My problem is that my primary is the one in the centre and it's quite annoying when dealing with browser tabs as the mouse often goes to the above monitor ...
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Broken Laptop Screen - Display BIOS in External Monitor [Dell XPS l502x]
My laptop screen broke recently, so I connected an external display via HDMI. Though I can boot into Ubuntu, I still have to wait until the system boots to the login screen to see any output to the ...
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Windows 10: Is it possible to control the display scaling (typically a monitor based setting) specific to a window?
I've got some PC displays with wildly varying DPI's. I have a typical 27" 2560x1440 which is 107 PPI and I have hooked up a 324 PPI iPad3 (sub 10", 2048x1536) screen converted to displayport with an ...
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Can I do 3 external monitor instead of 2 external+1 internal on a Macbook Pro 13"?
I know I can run 2 external plus the internal monitor without any issues.
Since it won't let me add a third external (for a total of 4), I'd prefer just running the 3 external ones with a closed lid.
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