Gary Kjos
garykjos at gmail.com
Fri May 30 09:42:51 CDT 2008
I have a 13 inch TV set next to my dual monitor system at home. I occasionally try to drag the TV picture over to one of the 19 inch flat panels. I have dual 19 inch CRT monitors here at work and other than I have no available desk space left, it is fabulous. Really hard to go back to a single montor system now. GK On 5/30/08, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote: > Dan, > > My laptop has a 17" 1440 x 900 which is a very nice size / > resolution for a laptop. > > The new monitor, a Hanns-G HI-221 went on a one day sale on > Newegg the other day for $199 including shipping. I had to > jump on that. > > I have always been leery of getting a flat screen with those > insanely high resolutions because the pixel size is so small > that characters are tiny and stuff (at native resolution). > > This one is 22" but the resolution of 1680 x 1050 just > "feels" perfect. I am getting old and my sight was never > very good so I need a good character size at native > resolution, without having to do the "translation" stuff > that makes things all fuzzy. > > Both my laptop and this new monitor fit that bill perfectly. > > I find it extraordinary how easily the mind adapts to the > extended desktop and the mouse moving off the page onto the > next monitor. It would probably be even nicer with two > identical size (and positioned) screens. My laptop is > slightly smaller and sits on the desktop so it is slightly > lower than the monitor. > > The only issue so far is hitting the close button in the > upper right of the laptop without the cursor moving off the > screen to the right and on to the monitor. > > All things considered, mighty fine! > > John W. Colby > www.ColbyConsulting.com > > > Dan Waters wrote: > > Hi John, > > > > I'm using 2 ViewSonic 20" 1600 X 1200 monitors - and yes it's almost heaven! > > > > Along with the monitors came a desktop control panel, with which I can > > select preferences for innumerable things I never even thought of. But one > > of those is which monitor do I want the dialog boxes to show up on? I can > > choose left, right, or whichever monitor has the cursor on it at the time. > > > > By the way, yesterday I posted a reply to you about using an unbound > > auxiliary form to edit memo fields - I didn't see it arrive. Do you > > remember it being posted? > > > > Enjoy 2 monitors! > > Dan > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby > > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 8:37 AM > > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > > Subject: [dba-Tech] Using Dual Monitors > > > > I finally broke down and bought a 22" flat panel for a > > second display, attached to my laptop and life is wonderful. > > > > Except... little things still don't work quite as you might > > expect. > > > > Don't get me wrong, the situation has improved markedly > > since the last time I tried this several years ago. the > > desktop extends to the second monitor without a hitch. I > > can just drag things over there and use them. The mouse > > cursor just slides between the two monitors quite intuitively. > > > > The second monitor is just slightly higher resolution than > > my laptop - 1440 x 900 for the laptop and 1680 x 1050 for > > the second screen. On a 22" screen the native character > > size is just right, big enough to be seen easily by my aging > > eyes. > > > > But, little things. Like remote desktop. When I set it up > > I set up the second monitor as the desktop extension. I > > remoted in to the client and the remote machine set up at > > 1440 x 900 and all is well. > > > > However I decided to move the "main" monitor to be the new > > one. Now remoting in tries to use the higher resolution on > > the remote desktop and the remote desktop has slider bars. > > What the heck over? I tried switching back so that the > > laptop is the main screen but the remote access still shows > > sliders. Sigh. I do a LOT of remote access and this > > (sliding around the desktop) is not going to fly. > > > > Another "niggly issue", I set up the code to be on the new > > (slightly bigger) monitor and the database container on the > > laptop (smaller). Works fine except that when I have edits > > in multiple code windows and try to save the save dialog > > comes up on the laptop (database window) rather than the new > > monitor (code window). I can drag the dialog over to the > > monitor but the next time it opens up it is back on the lap top. > > > > Just little problems like that. > > > > I hate to sound ungrateful though, this really is a marked > > improvement on a single monitor screen. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com