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| Thread ID: 104200 | 2009-10-19 22:18:00 | Secondary Display issue | supersi (8401) | Press F1 |
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| 822186 | 2009-10-19 22:18:00 | I am running Windows 7 with an ATI Radeon 4850 dual DVI graphics card with the latest ATI drivers and Hydravision. I have is a 24" LG display at 1920 x 1080/60 refresh rate as my main monitor connected via DVI. My secondary monitor is a VGA 19" Samsung SyncMaster 940n which will support up to 1280 x 1024/75 refresh rate, connected via VGA to DVI plug that plugs into the second DVI port on the graphics card. Hydravison detects and identifies both displays. The problem is my secondary display on shows my desktop background and no icons, start button, toolbar etc... see screenshot below... Attached file: IMG_0437.JPG (www.imagef1.net.nz) (724 KB) I have tried playing round with resolutions etc... but nothing changes. |
supersi (8401) | ||
| 822187 | 2009-10-19 22:30:00 | Hey What where you using to change the display properties, i would recommend you use the ati control panel ( accessible by right clicking the desktop and clicking on the ati control panel). |
Silver_Blade (10144) | ||
| 822188 | 2009-10-19 22:30:00 | That's how it's supposed to behave. If you want the same thing on both screens you'd have to clone but then the screens both get brought down to the the lowest res of the screens, and you don't want 1280*1024 on a 1920*1080 monitor. Check the ATI control panel for more settings. Remember that both monitors are treated as separate desktops. So you can drag windows between the two screens. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 822189 | 2009-10-19 22:36:00 | I'm using Catalyst to change display resolution. Still not displaying desktop icons, taskbar etc.... How do you drag the desktop over? | supersi (8401) | ||
| 822190 | 2009-10-19 22:37:00 | You CAN'T have the taskbar on both screens, as wratt said. It's by design. You can drag icons and windows to it though |
jwil1 (65) | ||
| 822191 | 2009-10-19 22:38:00 | I'm using Catalyst to change display resolution. Still not displaying desktop icons, taskbar etc.... How do you drag the desktop over? If you want both screens to run at their native res, You can't. If you want the entire desktop solely on the other screen, you'd have to set that as default. Then the current default screen will have nothing but the desktop background on it, it that what you're after? There is a program called UltraMon that gives you a lot more control over dual desktops etc, I think you can get a free trial, it's not too dear though. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 822192 | 2009-10-19 22:40:00 | OK, figured out how to drag desktop. How do I bring everything over in one hit? Is there a hot key? Also my secondary desktop sits to the left of my primary. When I move my mouse to the far left of the primary it should cross over, but instead I have to move it down to the bottom of the screen and it will then enter from the top in secondary. How do I change that? |
supersi (8401) | ||
| 822193 | 2009-10-19 22:42:00 | Win + left/right arrow keys on Windows 7. Open up display settings and drag the displays to where they physically are. |
jwil1 (65) | ||
| 822194 | 2009-10-19 22:43:00 | Win key + left or right in Win7, or go into the windows display properties, you can change the default/primary monitors and their positions there. :thumbs: | wratterus (105) | ||
| 822195 | 2009-10-19 23:01:00 | Left/right? Literally speaking I have no 'left' or 'right' keys. Are the left and right keys arrow keys? | supersi (8401) | ||
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