Dan Waters
dwaters at usinternet.com
Fri May 30 09:05:20 CDT 2008
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. -- John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com