A customer wants to run 2 monitor off the one computer. One will be the
standard computer monitor while the other will show a power point
presentation all day and night. Is it possible to do this without the mouse
being able to go onto the other screen or applications accidentally being
dragged there or messageboxes appearing there?
Thanks (I presume the answer is that they really need 2 PCs)
Michael Culley
"Michael C" <me@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:42e993cb$0$18640$14726298@news.sunsite.dk...
>A customer wants to run 2 monitor off the one computer. One will be the
>standard computer monitor while the other will show a power point
>presentation all day and night. Is it possible to do this without the mouse
>being able to go onto the other screen or applications accidentally being
>dragged there or messageboxes appearing there?
Using the correct software (and a little time) you can dictate which
application run on which screen, but I don't know that you could stop the
mouse from entering the second screen, or things from being dragged
accidentally into the second screen.
However to run the same powerpoint presentation all day long would not
require much processing power or memory etc, so why not consider an old
second hand PC - it would be quiet, low power and cheap. Probably even an
old 486 or early pentium 1, 2 or 3 would do the job - you wouldn't need
windows XP or anything up-to-date if that is really all the PC has to do!
With the correct software, supplied with a dual monitor card, you can have a
specific app run on the monitor of your choice. You can also have msg boxes
only show on the screen on which the app is running
"Michael C" <me@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:42e993cb$0$18640$14726298@news.sunsite.dk...
> A customer wants to run 2 monitor off the one computer. One will be the
> standard computer monitor while the other will show a power point
> presentation all day and night. Is it possible to do this without the
mouse
> being able to go onto the other screen or applications accidentally being
> dragged there or messageboxes appearing there?
>
> Thanks (I presume the answer is that they really need 2 PCs)
> Michael Culley
>
>
"Michael C" <me@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:42e993cb$0$18640$14726298@news.sunsite.dk...
>A customer wants to run 2 monitor off the one computer. One will be the
>standard computer monitor while the other will show a power point
>presentation all day and night. Is it possible to do this without the mouse
>being able to go onto the other screen or applications accidentally being
>dragged there or messageboxes appearing there?
>
> Thanks (I presume the answer is that they really need 2 PCs)
> Michael Culley
>
"DaveW" <none@zero.org> wrote:
>Yes, indeed, you need two computers.
Not at all. It's relatively simple to have two totally
separate displays. It is only slightly more complex to have
the two displays act as a single display (the mouse, and
various applications, can access any part of either
display).
>--
>DaveW
>
>"Michael C" <me@nospam.com> wrote in message
>news:42e993cb$0$18640$14726298@news.sunsite.dk. ..
>>A customer wants to run 2 monitor off the one computer. One will be the
>>standard computer monitor while the other will show a power point
>>presentation all day and night. Is it possible to do this without the mouse
>>being able to go onto the other screen or applications accidentally being
>>dragged there or messageboxes appearing there?
>>
>> Thanks (I presume the answer is that they really need 2 PCs)
>> Michael Culley
>>
--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@apaflo.com
"Floyd L. Davidson" <floyd@apaflo.com> wrote in message
news:87ack5jc5u.fld@barrow.com...
> "DaveW" <none@zero.org> wrote:
>>Yes, indeed, you need two computers.
>
> Not at all. It's relatively simple to have two totally
> separate displays. It is only slightly more complex to have
> the two displays act as a single display (the mouse, and
> various applications, can access any part of either
> display).
"Michael C" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>"Floyd L. Davidson" <floyd@apaflo.com> wrote:
>> "DaveW" <none@zero.org> wrote:
>>>Yes, indeed, you need two computers.
>>
>> Not at all. It's relatively simple to have two totally
>> separate displays. It is only slightly more complex to have
>> the two displays act as a single display (the mouse, and
>> various applications, can access any part of either
>> display).
>
>Can you explain more?
That is all true, *if* you are using an X server.
Which means virtually any for of unix (Solaris, Linux, BSD, OSX,
etc) does it with ease. I don't know what is available from
Microsoft.
--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@apaflo.com
"Floyd L. Davidson" <floyd@apaflo.com> wrote in message
news:87pst0j4k0.fld@barrow.com...
> That is all true, *if* you are using an X server.
>
> Which means virtually any for of unix (Solaris, Linux, BSD, OSX,
> etc) does it with ease. I don't know what is available from
> Microsoft.
What part of me asking if it was possible to run Power Point didn't you
understand? :-)
"Michael C" <me@nospam.com> wrote:
>"Floyd L. Davidson" <floyd@apaflo.com> wrote in message
>news:87pst0j4k0.fld@barrow.com...
>> That is all true, *if* you are using an X server.
>>
>> Which means virtually any for of unix (Solaris, Linux, BSD, OSX,
>> etc) does it with ease. I don't know what is available from
>> Microsoft.
>
>What part of me asking if it was possible to run Power Point didn't you
>understand? :-)
Your irrational limitations are not technical impediments.
--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@apaflo.com
"Floyd L. Davidson" <floyd@apaflo.com> wrote in message
news:87br4iegsy.fld@barrow.com...
> Your irrational limitations are not technical impediments.
This is for a constumer who is a dentist. She has several niche market apps
2 of which I know are written in MS Visual Basic. She and all of her staff
have good knowledge of windows and would need to be retrained to use linux.
It's simply not an option.
"Michael C" <me@nospam.com> wrote:
>"Floyd L. Davidson" <floyd@apaflo.com> wrote in message
>news:87br4iegsy.fld@barrow.com...
>> Your irrational limitations are not technical impediments.
>
>This is for a constumer who is a dentist. She has several niche market apps
>2 of which I know are written in MS Visual Basic. She and all of her staff
>have good knowledge of windows and would need to be retrained to use linux.
>It's simply not an option.
That wasn't the question though. The point is that support for
two monitors is relatively easy to do to.
As to Linux or some other non-Windows system being "not an
option", it appears to me that is an irrational limitation of
the consultant, not the customer.
Just for starters, if it can be done using an X server I'll be
amazed to hear that Windows cannot also do it...
Second, there are a variety of ways to host Windows apps on
different platforms that might well provide better
functionality, not to mention security and stability.
--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@apaflo.com
"Floyd L. Davidson" <floyd@apaflo.com> wrote in message
news:87iryqcq5k.fld@barrow.com...
> As to Linux or some other non-Windows system being "not an
> option", it appears to me that is an irrational limitation of
> the consultant, not the customer.
Right. Just the fact that the customer wants XP because they know XP is
enough on it's own (I get paid to do what they want) but once you factor in
the time I would spend swapping over to linux (easily thousand of dollars in
time before I started writing drivers for their dental camera and digital
xray) it would be extremely irrational of me to try.
> Just for starters, if it can be done using an X server I'll be
> amazed to hear that Windows cannot also do it...
All I need to know is that it I'm not missing some really obvious way to do
it, which I think this newsgroup has answered.
> Second, there are a variety of ways to host Windows apps on
> different platforms that might well provide better
> functionality, not to mention security and stability.
This is something that I dislike. If I'm going to run windows apps then I
think it's best to run a windows machine, apple apps on an apple machine
etc. I've seen people running windows apps on different platforms and it
doesn't work that well, besides there being no point to it.
Dual monitor question 
Linear Mode
