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John Kerr 2007-08-10 00:03
I have been running UltraMon for a while now, and recently moved to a notebook system as my primary workstation – gives me the portability I need.
The base LCD screen on the Dell D520 notebook runs at 1024x768 and works well. When I am at my desk, I drop the unit into a docking station which gives me two external monitor ports where I run one digital display at 1600x1200 and the analog port at 1280x1024.
When I configure up Windows XP to see the two monitors, extend my desktop across them and fire-up UltraMon, everything is great. Task bars show up where they are supposed to and everything is fine.
The problem occurs when I take my notebook out of the dock, and the output reverts back to the internal LCD panel. The system recognizes the single lower resolution screen – but when I shut down and drop the system back into the docking station, all my previous settings (screen resolutions, monitor positions, active screens) is completely forgotten and I have to manually go in and reapply the settings again.
Not trying to blame UltraMon for this, as it only talks to the hardware layer, but there must be some “magic tool” out there that can assist me to automagically configure the screen settings as I roam.
Any thoughts???
Thanks..John
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Christian Studer 2007-08-10 03:42
You could set up an UltraMon display profile to restore the settings manually, to do this right-click the UltraMon icon in the system tray and select Display Profiles from the menu.
If you also want to change the primary monitor: UltraMon usually can't do this on laptops, and changing the primary monitor via the software for the video chipset can cause the monitor numbers to get switched, which might cause problems when you're applying a display profile.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Craig Myers 2008-02-01 07:12
I have the SAME problem! At my desk at work I run a Dell laptop docked to dual 24" widescreens. When I go mobile, the notebook reduces screen resolution and when I come back, I have to restore my icons. To further mess things up, when I do a presentation in a meeting room, I have to drop to SVGA for the projector and that really messes things up!
I would like a utility that respects aspect ratios, icon locations, etc. during different presets (i.e. docked, mobile, presentation, etc.) WHile profiles does work, it still does not remember icon locations from one resolution to the next but only 1 default stored set of locations.
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Christian Studer 2008-02-01 09:29
UltraMon currently doesn't support this, will be considered for a future release.
There are several applications which support multiple sets of icon positions, for example Icon Keeper seems to be able to do this.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Mark Evans 2008-03-11 19:50
My situation is probably common, although I will describe my specific hardware and software configuration below.
I am purchasing a Dell XPS M1330 notebook with Vista Ultimate (32 bit). I would like to drive 2 external 1280x1024 LCD monitors, and not use the notebook's internal LCD. I was going to buy the Targus ACP60US docking station, which has 1 VGA port and 1 DVI port. These two ports can connect to the two LCD monitors (since each LCD monitor has both a DVI and a VGA connector). (The notebook connects to the docking station via Express Card.)
The Targus docking station documentation clearly states that the DVI and VGA ports on the docking station both transmit the same signal. So using the Targus driver, an extended desktop is possible only on an external monitor (VGA or DVI) and the notebook screen, not across the two external monitors.
Will Ultramon allow the desktop to be extended across both external monitors? (And also on the notebook's internal monitor [just in case others would like this configuration]?)
Again, I would imagine that this is a common situation, so hopefully something will work. Thank you!
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Christian Studer 2008-03-12 11:36
This would need to be supported by the hardware, UltraMon can't help with this.
What should work is connecting one external monitor to the docking station, the other to the laptop's VGA port. The internal monitor would need to be disabled.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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