All i know is that I have the Dual set up with my two 20 inch wide screen monitors, and I frickin' love it! I can't imagine having the Span set up, I think it would drive me crazy. It's much easier to organize with the Dual set up, imho.
On 10/24/07, Ian Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With a little cajoling and much patience I have convince my new employer > to provide me with a two monitor set up. I had this in a previous > position and I experienced to flavors. One was what I understand is > called "dual" where you have a primary and secondary monitor. The other > was I understand is called "span" where the system considers you to have > one wide screen monitor. I slightly prefer this latter option, but I am > no experienced enough to know if I can set my self up that way. Anybody > know in good brains, blogs, documentation to pick to understand the whys > and wherefores of Span versus Dual? > > A bit of systems information if it helps. > > Gateway Intel Desktop with Intel Q965/Q963 Express Chipset Family. > Two gateway 17" flat screen displays. > One is connected to the display card as a 'monitor' and the other as a > 'digital' display. > > There is apparently an 'Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Driver' plug-in > installed into the display properties. With this tool I was able to > create an interesting effect of turning my monitors sideways. So > instead of two 1280x1024(wider then tall) displays I am currently > experimenting with two 1024x1280 (taller then wide) displays. > > I think this could be kind of cool in span mode so that my task bar > would span both monitors and be 2048 pixels wide. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:245019 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
