[WriteLog] Dual monitors

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There are two issues here.
First are the programs. Apparently (I say that as I 'think' there is some windows 
programming parameter) some programs have the setting built in to open in the same size 
and location as they were last closed.
Second is the video card. The now easy to obtain and inexpensive Matrox G450 series cards 
have software that automatically remembers most windows positions.

I've used this approach. Stretching your desktop across two monitors is ok if they are the 
same size and resolution.
But is clumsy if they are different.
With my Matrox cards, I have different resolutions on each monitor.

It is possible to use two single output video cards or a mainboard video and aux video 
card.
this can get messy though with one being AGP and other PCI etc.

I went the dual video cards, got them on eBay for pretty cheap.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marc Ressler" <marc.ressler at verizon.net>
To: <writelog at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 7:45 PM
Subject: [WriteLog] Dual monitors


>I have picked up a second video card and monitor and have the expanded
> desktop dual monitor mode running. It great to have all the space, but the
> question I've got is: how do you keep your windows in the same place after
> you close the program.
>
> I've tried all sorts of variants (left/right, right/left, top/bottom, save
> configs. etc...) and the only thing that helps at all is to stretch the
> main window out across much of both screens and have a number of secondary
> windows right at the screen boundaries. Then at least, they come back in
> the same place. All the independent windows, and any sub window completely
> in the secondary monitor end up on top of each other in the main monitor
> whenever the program is restarted. This isn't exactly what you want anyway.
>
> Is there something I am missing, or do you just set up all the windows
> before the contest and never restart the program (which becomes REAL
> annoying on a multiple contest weekend - like 5-6 FEB was).
>
>
> MarC, K3NCO
> marc.ressler at verizon.net
>
>
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