Re: virtual dual monitors on a wide screen?




"Nicholas Andrade" <SDNick484@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> RobR wrote:
>> I just bought a 24" Dell widescreen monitor and have an ATI
>> X300 card. Problem is it's a major PITA trying to get two
>> apps to run side by side. I have to start them up, then
>> adjust the window size of each and then drag them next to
>> each other. I was wondering if there was software that
>> would effectively set up virtual dual monitors so
>> the right half of the display would be "Monitor 2"
>> and by default apps would be assigned to Monitor
>> 1 or 2 and maximize to only fill half the screen.
>>
>> Thanks for any ideas. Thought widescreen would
>> be cool, but it's turning out to be sort of a pain.
>>
>>
> What OS are you running? This is actually rather simple to set up in
> Linux.

While I run linux for various things (CVS, Postgre SQL, JBoss,
Apache, etc) I don't use it for my every day desktop. So in
this instance I'm running XP Pro.


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