Dual monitors are jolly nice
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Finally I heeded the advice and bought a second display. Physically my only gripe is that it doesn't tilt forward enough for my desk (it is about eight inches above my hand level), but I'm not one to whine. (lol ;)). Anyway, I'm slowly getting used to it (the absurd arrangement of keys on the new MS keyboards is causing me far more pain) but I have some queries I can't find answers to: - Windows XP - how can I have clear type on the LCD but normal fonts on the CRT? - Is there any way to have a task bar on both displays? I'd like to be able to keep the task bar entries matched to their display to avoid confusion. - Can I impose a distance of about 100 pixels between thew two displays? As soon as I move the cursor off of one it appears on the other, and whilst that is perfectly logical it does get very confusing when your eyes have only travelled a short distance but the cursor jumps about four inches. - Windows Media Player goes AWOL when you try and watch a visualisation full screen, using only the primary and drawing nasty looking Windows-type boxes on the secondary. - How can I remove this absurd double sized DELETE key from my new keyboard?! What the hell were Microsoft thinking?!!! And must it really be so close to the ENTER key? I keep hitting it by accident. ARGH!! :mad: - Did I mention the abusrd keyboard layout? End, Pg Up and Pg Down on the same column?! :wtf: - And no scroll lock light either! how am I supposed to tell if my runn ing lock is on in DF BHD now? :rolleyes: Can anyone help me (or at least answer my questions)?
David Wulff
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David Wulff wrote: How can I remove this absurd double sized DELETE key from my new keyboard?! Screwdriver?:-D David Wulff wrote: must it really be so close to the ENTER key? That's better than the early Apples... They had the Reset key next to Enter. Why did you buy that silly keyboard? Wasn't there a picture on the box? My MS Internet Keyboard Pro works nicely, without any bizarre and pointless efforts to make it look different for the sake of being different. It has the added bonus of being dirt cheap.;P "Please don't put cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light" - Sign in a Bullhead City, AZ Restroom
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David Wulff wrote: How can I remove this absurd double sized DELETE key from my new keyboard?! Screwdriver?:-D David Wulff wrote: must it really be so close to the ENTER key? That's better than the early Apples... They had the Reset key next to Enter. Why did you buy that silly keyboard? Wasn't there a picture on the box? My MS Internet Keyboard Pro works nicely, without any bizarre and pointless efforts to make it look different for the sake of being different. It has the added bonus of being dirt cheap.;P "Please don't put cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light" - Sign in a Bullhead City, AZ Restroom
Roger Wright wrote: Why did you buy that silly keyboard? Wasn't there a picture on the box? Because I needed a new one, and nope it wasn't. I bought it OEM from Aria so it just came in a cardboard box with "Only for distribution with a new PC" stamped on it. Still, for £15 I can't argue - having the multimedia keys is really handy - I can hit mute if the phone rings or someone talks, for example. Roger Wright wrote: My MS Internet Keyboard Pro works nicely I had one for two years prior to today and it served me well. Problem was the little leg on the left hand side broke off on the day I first started using it and it has had two John Grishman novels taped to the underside of it with masking tape ever since. Last week I noticed the glue from the tape was reacting with the melamine surface of my keyboard shelf, so I decided it was a good time to buy a new one. :-D
David Wulff
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Finally I heeded the advice and bought a second display. Physically my only gripe is that it doesn't tilt forward enough for my desk (it is about eight inches above my hand level), but I'm not one to whine. (lol ;)). Anyway, I'm slowly getting used to it (the absurd arrangement of keys on the new MS keyboards is causing me far more pain) but I have some queries I can't find answers to: - Windows XP - how can I have clear type on the LCD but normal fonts on the CRT? - Is there any way to have a task bar on both displays? I'd like to be able to keep the task bar entries matched to their display to avoid confusion. - Can I impose a distance of about 100 pixels between thew two displays? As soon as I move the cursor off of one it appears on the other, and whilst that is perfectly logical it does get very confusing when your eyes have only travelled a short distance but the cursor jumps about four inches. - Windows Media Player goes AWOL when you try and watch a visualisation full screen, using only the primary and drawing nasty looking Windows-type boxes on the secondary. - How can I remove this absurd double sized DELETE key from my new keyboard?! What the hell were Microsoft thinking?!!! And must it really be so close to the ENTER key? I keep hitting it by accident. ARGH!! :mad: - Did I mention the abusrd keyboard layout? End, Pg Up and Pg Down on the same column?! :wtf: - And no scroll lock light either! how am I supposed to tell if my runn ing lock is on in DF BHD now? :rolleyes: Can anyone help me (or at least answer my questions)?
David Wulff
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AFAIK, the media player issue is caused by video card (driver?) limitations - you'll notice this with some other things as well, though it should be possible to handle it more gracefully (if slowly) in software. The distance between screens should be possible to adjust - displays can be positioned anywhere within Windows' virtual screen area. Doing so might require manually hacking the registry though, and i've no idea whether it would break window positioning. The keyboard problems are the easiest - ditch that new MS shit and buy a real keyboard[^].
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I'd show a smile but I'm too weak I'd share with you, could I only speak
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Roger Wright wrote: Why did you buy that silly keyboard? Wasn't there a picture on the box? Because I needed a new one, and nope it wasn't. I bought it OEM from Aria so it just came in a cardboard box with "Only for distribution with a new PC" stamped on it. Still, for £15 I can't argue - having the multimedia keys is really handy - I can hit mute if the phone rings or someone talks, for example. Roger Wright wrote: My MS Internet Keyboard Pro works nicely I had one for two years prior to today and it served me well. Problem was the little leg on the left hand side broke off on the day I first started using it and it has had two John Grishman novels taped to the underside of it with masking tape ever since. Last week I noticed the glue from the tape was reacting with the melamine surface of my keyboard shelf, so I decided it was a good time to buy a new one. :-D
David Wulff
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David Wulff wrote: it has had two John Grishman novels taped to the underside of it with masking tape ever since. I've long wondered what his books were good for... Thanks!:laugh: Try duct tape instead - the glue is friendlier. "Please don't put cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light" - Sign in a Bullhead City, AZ Restroom
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AFAIK, the media player issue is caused by video card (driver?) limitations - you'll notice this with some other things as well, though it should be possible to handle it more gracefully (if slowly) in software. The distance between screens should be possible to adjust - displays can be positioned anywhere within Windows' virtual screen area. Doing so might require manually hacking the registry though, and i've no idea whether it would break window positioning. The keyboard problems are the easiest - ditch that new MS shit and buy a real keyboard[^].
- Shog9 -
I'd show a smile but I'm too weak I'd share with you, could I only speak
See with my setup, I was actually trying to use PowerDVD on the secondary monitor so I could watch DVDs on it and work on my primary monitor vp230mb[^] PowerDVD couldn't create a DirectShow context on the secondary monitor (at least I think it was DirectShow) I don't know what WMP uses to display video, but whatever PowerDVD (PowerDVD XP) uses won't work on a secondary monitor. One solution was to make the other monitor my primary and work on the vp230mb as my secondary and display movies on the other monitor as my primary. It worked, but when I tried to play a game it would only work on the primary. So I would have ended up switching back and forth between which monitor was primary. Too much of a pain for me. azmodius
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AFAIK, the media player issue is caused by video card (driver?) limitations - you'll notice this with some other things as well, though it should be possible to handle it more gracefully (if slowly) in software. The distance between screens should be possible to adjust - displays can be positioned anywhere within Windows' virtual screen area. Doing so might require manually hacking the registry though, and i've no idea whether it would break window positioning. The keyboard problems are the easiest - ditch that new MS shit and buy a real keyboard[^].
- Shog9 -
I'd show a smile but I'm too weak I'd share with you, could I only speak
Shog9 wrote: The keyboard problems are the easiest - ditch that new MS sh*t and buy a real keyboard. Clickety[^] (*Falcon).Jeremy.GetLatestArticle() = "Learning Binary and Hexadecimal"
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Finally I heeded the advice and bought a second display. Physically my only gripe is that it doesn't tilt forward enough for my desk (it is about eight inches above my hand level), but I'm not one to whine. (lol ;)). Anyway, I'm slowly getting used to it (the absurd arrangement of keys on the new MS keyboards is causing me far more pain) but I have some queries I can't find answers to: - Windows XP - how can I have clear type on the LCD but normal fonts on the CRT? - Is there any way to have a task bar on both displays? I'd like to be able to keep the task bar entries matched to their display to avoid confusion. - Can I impose a distance of about 100 pixels between thew two displays? As soon as I move the cursor off of one it appears on the other, and whilst that is perfectly logical it does get very confusing when your eyes have only travelled a short distance but the cursor jumps about four inches. - Windows Media Player goes AWOL when you try and watch a visualisation full screen, using only the primary and drawing nasty looking Windows-type boxes on the secondary. - How can I remove this absurd double sized DELETE key from my new keyboard?! What the hell were Microsoft thinking?!!! And must it really be so close to the ENTER key? I keep hitting it by accident. ARGH!! :mad: - Did I mention the abusrd keyboard layout? End, Pg Up and Pg Down on the same column?! :wtf: - And no scroll lock light either! how am I supposed to tell if my runn ing lock is on in DF BHD now? :rolleyes: Can anyone help me (or at least answer my questions)?
David Wulff
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If you like extended desktop, then you'll LOVE this: I have an external CRT monitor connected to my laptop and use the extented desktop of course. Left of my external monitor I have another desktop PC and monitor that I use for accidental Visual Basic (spit, spit) development (don't want VB on my laptop) and testing. On SourceForge I found Synergy2, a cross platform mouse and keyboard share utility. With my laptop being the mouse/keyboard 'server', I can now move my mouse from the laptop's TFT screen to the external monitor (extended desktop) to the screen of the OTHER PC!! This is so cool :cool:! I only need my laptop's (external) keyboard and mouse to control TWO PCs! It's not completely perfect, but very well workable. No hardware KVT switch needed. Check it out at http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/[^]. VictorV
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Shog9 wrote: The keyboard problems are the easiest - ditch that new MS sh*t and buy a real keyboard. Clickety[^] (*Falcon).Jeremy.GetLatestArticle() = "Learning Binary and Hexadecimal"
Psh. Happy Hacking keyboard...I mock you. ;P Go with the HHK Lite2 for the simple reason that it's got arrow keys. :)
Hawaian shirts and shorts work too in Summer. People assume you're either a complete nut (in which case not a worthy target) or so damn good you don't need to worry about camouflage... -Anna-Jayne Metcalfe on Paintballing
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If you like extended desktop, then you'll LOVE this: I have an external CRT monitor connected to my laptop and use the extented desktop of course. Left of my external monitor I have another desktop PC and monitor that I use for accidental Visual Basic (spit, spit) development (don't want VB on my laptop) and testing. On SourceForge I found Synergy2, a cross platform mouse and keyboard share utility. With my laptop being the mouse/keyboard 'server', I can now move my mouse from the laptop's TFT screen to the external monitor (extended desktop) to the screen of the OTHER PC!! This is so cool :cool:! I only need my laptop's (external) keyboard and mouse to control TWO PCs! It's not completely perfect, but very well workable. No hardware KVT switch needed. Check it out at http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/[^]. VictorV
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Cool, I already knew VNC, but not Win2VNC. I'll stick to Synergy anyhow, because it can handle more than one PC, while Win2VNC seems to be limited to 1 co-PC! VictorV
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Cool, I already knew VNC, but not Win2VNC. I'll stick to Synergy anyhow, because it can handle more than one PC, while Win2VNC seems to be limited to 1 co-PC! VictorV