Multiple Monitors (aska geek)

[Steve Cassani]

I regularly watch the National Business Report on PBS. While interviewing analysts for a major brokerage the backgound shows what appear to be multiple monitors, two to sometimes six, connected to one terminal. Am I seeing what I think I am? Can one terminal access multiple monitors simultaneously? Can an operator cut and paste across monitors?

The monitors are arranged next to each other: side by side or two rows of two or three in a row. If this works the way I think it does the software enabling this capability has to be complex.

[computerworks]

It's built into windows (multiple monitor support)

I have regularly set up 6 screen for traders (two rows of three)... probably that business is dead now for me.

The trick is multiple video controllers or a fancy (read..expensive) single controller with multi-heads

Most video boards (not the on-the-motherboard ones, but the plug-ins) support 2 monitors...for 6, we add two more boards.

You can arrange their virtual positions any way you want in Windows.

[Joe Wicked]

I use multiple monitors at work, and I found that a program called UltraMon, gives you a bit more functionality than the standard Windows. You can actually set it up to where 1 monitor starts running the screen saver at the set time since you are not working on it while the monitor you are on remains active. There are different versions of UltraMon as well as other programs that have different abilities. Once you get used to using multiple monitors, it is hard to go back to just 1.

[MChat]

I'm a computer programmer and have been using multiple monitors for years now. In the past it required multiple video cards. Now most video cards support multiple monitors out of the box. The one I'm currently using at home supports up to 4 monitors (I'm using 2).

For programming, I can have the code up on one screen and the application I'm working on running on the other screen. This allows me to "step through" the code and see exactly what is happening with the application.

I've also set up the computer at my Church with a "dual monitor" setup. One monitor and the overhead projector. This allows Powerpoint presentations to be run in "Presenter Mode."

And yes, you can move things between monitors; it's essentially just an extension of your main desktop.

[Steve Cassani]

Thanks guys!

[jams]

Once you have used multiple monitors you will never go back to a single one.

[427 S/O]

A while back I ask the forum about a program for controlling two monitors with one mouse, would UltraMon be the trick?.