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Dual Monitors
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Posted by: eleanorstang
Ok. I am just for the fun of it running two monitors on my laptop. Well I have it set that when I close my laptop it goes into standby. My problem is that when I close the laptop it puts all my icons on the other monitor. Then it goes into standby and both monitors go off. Well, when I open my laptop again my icons are all screwed up meaning they are all over the desktop and not where I had them so everytime I reopen the screen I have to put my icons back the way I had them. I know the reason it does this is because my laptop is widescreen and the second monitor is not. My question is, is there anyway to make it to where it won't do that?
Posted by: matt.modica
Set the lid control so that it just turns the laptop monitor off when you close the lid (look in the power control properties). Then set the resolution of the laptop monitor and the external monitor to the resolution of the external monitor. Now your external monitor should work fine.
Posted by: eleanorstang
As far as the settings for when I close the lid there is only two options. Stand By and Do Nothing. The problem with setting the resolution to the same is my laptop is 1280x768 and the external monitor is 800x600. If I put one on the other everything is so small that my feet hurt just looking at it and if i do it the other way around everything is so big I have to be at the other end of the room just to read it. Lol. I just all messed up.
Posted by: goranpaa
I dont know if this will help about the size?
But check if the DPI setting is set to 120 DPI? When I got my LCD monitor, It whas set to 120 instead of 96 DPI ( wich is normal) in the drivers propertys. And that made stuff bigger.
Posted by: matt.modica
Setting it to "do nothing" will just make it turn off the monitor. Thats what you want. Depending on the graphics of the laptop, you should set both displays to the same resolutoin, or if you have a dedicated card, it might support multiple monitors.
Posted by: eleanorstang
Yeah I think I have tried everything. I have a dedicated card and it does support two monitors but the resolutions can not be set at the same thing with out distorting the screen on one or the other. If I set it to do nothing when I close the screen, it still transfers my icons from the laptop screen to the external monitor. Oh well, I will just deal with it. I have checked everywhere to see if there was something that I was missing. I can't find anything. Thanks for the suggestions though.
Posted by: matt.modica
Wait, I think I understand now. You have it so that it it extends your monitor onto the other monitor. This is why they need to be set to the same resolution even though you have multiple monitor support. What you need to do is just have it "mirror" your primary monitor. What GPU do you have?
Posted by: pdnielsen
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Originally Posted by matt.modica
Wait, I think I understand now. You have it so that it it extends your monitor onto the other monitor. This is why they need to be set to the same resolution even though you have multiple monitor support. What you need to do is just have it "mirror" your primary monitor. What GPU do you have?
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Depending on the GPU brand it might use the word "clone" instead of "mirror."
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