Questions tagged [multiple-monitors]
For questions about connecting multiple monitors to a single computer either desktop or laptop.
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How do you prevent the dock from switching monitors in macOS Monterey?
In Mavericks, Apple introduced a "feature" where if you hover at the bottom of any screen the dock pops up on that screen.
This is disrupting my workflow as I am constantly having the dock ...
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How to move windows that open up offscreen?
I have a dual monitor setup, and I recently played around with the positioning settings, and some of my single window applications do the favour of preserving where they were last closed, and opening ...
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How do I get different background images on my dual monitors?
Is there a way to set two different background pictures for my two monitors in Windows 7?
By default the same background picture is used for both displays. I am looking for a solution without ...
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How to control Windows 7 snap feature with two monitors?
There is an Aero Snap feature in Windows 7. However, it seems to not work when dragging a window to the edge that is adjoined to the second monitor. How to make it work properly? Maybe some regedit ...
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Cmd+Tab App Switcher is on the wrong monitor
I have an external monitor connected to my laptop, and the external monitor is set as the primary display. My problem is that sometimes after I've connected the monitor, the App Switcher still shows ...
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Mac: 3 monitor setup: My desktop set keep switching places between monitors
Situation:
I have a MacBook pro MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)
And have 2 External Monitors ASUS VS247 Display connected via thunderbolt.
On each monitor, I have multiple Desktops/Spaces ...
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Windows on second monitor moves to primary monitor after sleep/lock
I'm using latest Windows 10. I have dual monitors and am working on software development. I move Visual Studio to second monitor to work on it.
When I lock wndows and leave computer and go somewhere ...
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Windows 10 - How to move window to other monitor by using keyboard shortcuts?
I try to switch a window from my second monitor to the first, because my OS always opens some windows where they were last closed.
E.g. if I open up VLC Player to watch a video and then move the ...
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How to disable sticky corners in Windows 10
It seems Microsoft has tried to solve this problem Multi-monitors and the corners of the screen.
In Windows 7, there is no boundary between monitors and the mouse can move freely across the top of ...
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VirtualBox to use dual monitors
I am running Kubuntu Hardy Heron, with a dual monitor setup, and have VirtualBox on it running Windows XP in seamless mode.
My problem is, I can't get VirtualBox to extend to the second monitor.
How ...
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Can I use my laptop as a second monitor?
Is it possible to make my laptop's screen act as a second monitor for my desktop computer?
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Is there a way to fake a dual (second) monitor
Is there a way to fake a dual monitor for testing.
I have only one monitor and I have to make an application that is suitable for two monitors.
The second monitor screen should appear as a window ...
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Assigning a virtual desktop to a monitor in Windows 10
Is there a way to assign a virtual desktop to a monitor in Windows 10 (i.e. have every monitor show a different VD)?
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Dual monitors on Windows - How do I set a different DPI or text size on each monitor?
My laptop is a 15" wide screen running at 1600x1050, and in addition to that I connect an external 19" LCD which runs at 1280x1024. The problem with this setup is that if I increase the text size to ...
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Pin applications to multiple desktops in Windows 10
One of the big new features for Windows is the fact that multiple "virtual" desktops are now natively supported, allowing you to organise collections of windows together and separate groups of tasks.
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Moving a window from a disconnected monitor to connected monitor on Vista
I have a laptop that runs Vista Mega Ultimate Amazing for Business 64-bit.
When at work, I connect a monitor via USB (which totally rocks) to the "left" of the laptop monitor. It's identified as ...
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How can I get the system tray on my second monitor?
Whenever I play games, those will always launch on the main monitor.
Since the system tray where the clock is located is only displayed on the taskbar on the main monitor, I can't see what time it is ...
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How do I open a remote desktop session on a secondary monitor?
How do I open a remote desktop session on a secondary monitor (in full-screen)? It always seems to want to open on the primary one and I cannot find a switch which lets me choose.
Is there a known ...
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Move mouse proportionally between different resolution (and DPI) displays
I have three displays, a 4K display flanked by two 1080p displays. Physically, these monitors are roughly the same size. Furthermore, Windows 10 handles the DPI scaling of the 4K monitor separately ...
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Remember window locations when docked and undocked
I find this beyond frustrating.
I have two extra screens on my laptop at work. I take my laptop and go home, with no extra screens connected. I come back, dock the laptop, and the windows need to be ...
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How to disable sticky corners in Windows 8?
I have 2 monitors and in Windows 7 I used to just mouse-flick maximized windows from one monitor to the other.
With Windows 8 however (charms disabled), my mouse hangs in the corners while doing this. ...
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How to make applications open on the correct monitor when using multiple monitors?
I'm using Windows 8.1, which has much better multiple monitor support than Windows 7 (sort of). However when I'm in a full-screen app on one monitor, and I go to the Start menu on the other and open a ...
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Can I sleep one of the displays on a multi-monitor setup?
I want to be able to 'put the display to sleep' on one of my two monitors when it isn't needed, so it doesn't distract me or use unnecessary power.
Ideally, the display would be asleep, but the OS ...
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Maximize a window on to dual monitors in Windows?
I have dual monitors and I want to span my current window so that it appears as one giant window on both monitors. Does anyone know how to do this natively in Windows?
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How to fix blurry text in Windows 10 with multiple monitors
I have plugged a second screen into my laptop and now the text is blurry but only on the second screen. The effect is not visible for all applications.
I am on Windows 10.
How do I fix this?
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Split monitor into virtual monitors
I'm searching for a solution to split one physical monitor into two( or more?) virtual monitors.
Let's say I've a monitor (monitor_a) with the resolution of 1920*1080.
Now I want this monitor_a to ...
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How to use different scaling for every monitor?
One of the new features in Windows 8.1 is the new "Desktop display scaling", which allows user to configure scaling per monitor. I've been trying to get this working in preview but with no success. If ...
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With dual monitors, one rotated 90 degrees, how can I get windows to line up correctly?
I have two monitors. One rotated 90 degrees. The other at standard station. I've adjusted the two monitors to heights that are comfortable for me.
Allow me to attempt some ASCII art to demonstrate:
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Broken mouse cursor on main monitor, Windows 7 64 Bit, ATI Radeon HD 7870
UPDATE: Please check out the new answer I've posted to this problem. It might be that a solution to this frustrating problem exists now. Scroll down to see it.
Quite a while ago my graphic card died ...
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Different backgrounds for dual monitor setup
I have read and seen on videos that support for per-monitor backgrounds have been introduced natively in windows 8, but I cannot seem to find where to change the 2nd monitor background anywhere.
How ...
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How to make the windows alt-tab task switcher appear on the screen the pointer is at
I have a Windows 7 setup with two screens.
I often use alt+tab to switch between windows but the app switcher dialog always appears on the main screen, which may be a different screen from the one I’...
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What is the switch for second monitor only [duplicate]
When you press Winkey + P in Windows 10 you will get this menu on the right side of the monitor:
The program and switches behind these options are as follows:
PC screen only :: displayswitch.exe /...
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How do I get the Windows 7 taskbar with the Start Menu to display on dual monitors? [closed]
I am looking for an application with features as follows:-
It will give me a dual monitor set
up with a Windows 7 taskbar
with Aero peek and the Start Menu on each
monitor.
The taskbar should ...
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Is there a way to move the taskbar to another monitor?
I am using Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 and three monitors. I would like for my taskbar to be moved to the third monitor. How can I get it over there instead of on my primary monitor?
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Getting taskbar with clock (notification area) on second monitor with Windows 10
My Windows 10 updated itself this morning and now the notification area (the rightmost part of the taskbar with clock) will only appear on the laptop monitor. The past several weeks it was happily ...
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Disable laptop screen when lid is closed
I'm on a Lenovo Y50, running Windows 10.
I have an external monitor attached (HDMI) and I use the laptop screen as well as the external. Sometimes I want to close the laptop lid and just use the one ...
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How can I stop OSX from combining spaces when I unplug a monitor?
I use spaces with the "Displays have separate Spaces" setting selected on OSX 10.10.
In this mode, OSX seems to have a "phantom space" that disappears when a monitor is unplugged, and reappears when ...
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How to disable monitor auto detection in Windows 7?
I am currently running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit with a dual monitor setup with an NVIDIA 7950 GT graphics card. One monitor is dedicated to this machine and the other monitor is connected to a DVI ...
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Solutions for presenting PDF slides with presenter notes on second display [closed]
I made a presentation using the latex beamer class with notes. Now I have a problem displaying notes only on my display while presenting the slides to the audience using a projector. Beamer notes ...
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How do I move my current active window from one monitor to another using a keyboard shortcut?
I use a multiple-monitor setup on Windows XP. I would like to be able to move the active window from one monitor to the other with a keyboard shortcut.
I know that I can use Alt+Space, M, or drag the ...
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Can a fake second display be enabled in Windows 10?
I just updated to Windows 10 and discovered that Microsoft broke this method of adding a fake second monitor: Is there a way to fake a dual (second) monitor which I rely on for scaling some small ...
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Windows 7 dual monitor windows move when screen is locked
When I lock my Windows 7 Pro 64bit desktop and then unlock it after the screen saver has activated I find that all of the windows that were on monitor 2 (right side) have moved to the lower right of ...
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Mouse cursor on multiple screens with different PPI
I'm using a 4K display along with a Full HD display with both almost the same physical size and it brings some mouse cursor problems to me working with it on the default Windows settings.
As the ...
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Multi-monitor Usage [closed]
How many different applications do you use with a 2, 3, 4, 5 or more monitor setup? What's the most sophisticated multi-monitor setup you've seen?
To be more specific, I would like to know exactly ...
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How do I set up a hotkey or shortcut to rotate my screen in Windows?
I've recently acquired a set of monitor arms that allow for free rotation of my monitors. I'd like to be able to quickly switch from one orientation to another on the fly, without having to go through ...
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Windows 10 - Change Display Numbers / Identity
I can get to the display setting where I can re-order displays:
But is it possible to actually re-number them as well?
The reason simply re-ordering doesn't fit my use case, is because other ...
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Dual monitors won't "wake up" after sleep
My laptop is set to go to sleep when not in use, but when I have it set to use Dual screens, after I "wake it up", all I can see is the mouse on the second screen, flickering. If I unplug the VGA ...
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Set one background to stretch across multi-monitor display?
I have two monitors and my coworker has three. We were wondering if there was a way to set a single background image to stretch across all the monitors.
Right now it's the same image but repeated, so ...
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How to get Windows 7 logon wallpaper to tile to other monitors?
In 2000/XP/Vista it was easy to set a wallpaper for the logon screen, either manually through tools like Logonstudio or simple registry changes by hand on prepared installation images or through ...
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I have a laptop with an HDMI port and I want to use my old monitor which has VGA port. Do I need HDMI-to-VGA or VGA-to-HDMI adapter?
I have an old monitor that only has a VGA port.
I have a new Dell laptop that only has an HDMI port.
I want to use that old monitor with my new laptop.
Do I need a HDMI-to-VGA adapter or VGA-to-HDMI ...