gHacks technology news » dual monitors http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:56:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 DisplayFusion 2 http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/04/displayfusion-2/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/04/displayfusion-2/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:25:14 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/04/displayfusion-2/ DisplayFusion 2 has just been released. The software can be used to manage multi-monitor systems with ease, the key areas are wallpapers and window management with a few extras thrown in. DisplayFusion 2 lets you easily set a wallpaper – either an image or solid color – for each monitor separately or one that spans across all monitors. Wallpapers can be set on timers to change after a certain amount of time has passed (pro version only) and the integrated Flickr search helps in finding new wallpapers. Images that are to large can be positioned to display the part of the image that the user wants.

Window management is all about controlling windows on multi-monitor systems. With DisplayFusion 2 users can drag maximized windows to another monitor screen, move (and maximize) windows automatically on the next screen, center and tile windows on the screen. It is even possible to maximize a window across all screens, very nice.

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Most functions can be accessed by using hotkeys. The pro version offers fully customizable hotkeys. The video demonstration on the homepage gives a very good overview of the functions of DisplayFusion 2.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/04/displayfusion-2/feed/ 2 Multi-monitor Taskbar http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/08/multi-monitor-taskbar/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/08/multi-monitor-taskbar/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:51:36 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/08/multi-monitor-taskbar/ I think we can all agree on the fact that multi-monitor support in Windows is not what it could be and that Microsoft does not seem to put lots of efforts into changing this status any time soon. We have to rely on third party tools to add the functions and features that we demand from a multi-monitor environment and Multi-monitor taskbar is one of those applications.

The main function of the software is to add separate taskbars for every monitor that you have connected to your system. This means that each taskbar is only showing the applications that are running on that monitor which is an excellent way to keep an overview of all the programs and tools that are running.

It also adds a small icon, or two icons if you have three monitors, that lets you easily move that window to another monitor by clicking the left or right button in the top right corner.

It was build with the authors setup in mind which means that it works best with two monitors or three monitors where the primary monitor has to be the middle one.

Limitiations: With two monitors the secondary must be on right. The monitors must have the same resolution. With three monitors the secondary must be left and right with the primary in the middle. If time permits I may make it universal, but I have too many other projects.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/08/multi-monitor-taskbar/feed/ 4 Use one mouse and keyboard on multiple computers http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/26/use-one-mouse-and-keyboard-on-multiple-computers/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/26/use-one-mouse-and-keyboard-on-multiple-computers/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:26:49 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/26/use-one-mouse-and-keyboard-on-multiple-computers/ I prefer to use a mouse and a “real” keyboard over working with the touchpad and the keyboard of my Toshiba notebook. I do like slim keyboards but I’m not that used to keyboards from notebooks and have troubles typing as fast as with the keyboard on my desktop pc. I obviously have to use the keyboard and an external mouse when I’m travelling around with my Toshiba notebook but I thought that it would be nice if I could use the keyboard and mouse from my desktop pc for my notebook as well when I’m at home.

The open source software Synergy makes this possible. Once installed you can use the keyboard and mouse that are connected to your desktop pc on your notebook as well. This is done by installing the Synergy software on all computers that you want to work with that way. Synergy is available for Windows, Linux and Mac which means that it is also possible to use this feature for computers with different operating systems.

One system – the one that uses the keyboard and mouse that you want to use – has to run the Synergy server software and all other computers the client version of Synergy. I don’t want to go over the installation of the server, the synergy website has a very good installation instruction which is all that you need to get everything started.

Synergy has additional features that make it even more worthwhile. It is possible to copy text into the clipboard and paste the same text on the other computer again. It is also possible to use a hotkey (Scroll Lock by default) to prevent that the cursor of the mouse moves outside of the current computer. This is especially useful if you play computer games for instance.

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