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Synergy 2007-09-27 02:13
I have two 30 inch monitors, both of which had the bottom three inches cut off the screen. These monitors were rotated 90 degrees and will be glued together to make a perfect 26x26 screen. There seems to be no clear way to display (in Portrait mode), a perfect screen. Windows thinks that the three inches is still there on the screen so that when you drag a Windows to the other screen, you are dragging across a ghost of 6 inches.
Can I use UltraMon to set the Monitor size so it will act as if the 3 inches were NEVER missing?
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Christian Studer 2007-09-27 10:09
UltraMon can't help with this.
I would look into setting up a custom resolution for the monitors, for example via PowerStrip, but don't know if that will work.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Geminii 2007-09-28 06:05
Rotate both screens 180 degrees so that the ghost strips are on the outside, and then use a freeware app to install invisible sidebars on the left and right of the combined desktop?
It won't be perfect by any means, but short of using an extremely customized video driver, it's about the only way I can think of to work around a physically missing chunk of screen when the support circuitry is still there and advertising that it still exists.
Another way might be to flip the screens, hook the combined result to a server, and have the server simply displaying a fixed remote window to your desktop machine. Clunky, and you'd probably still need a tweakable video driver or virtual desktop on the desktop machine to simulate the weird resolution, but at least windows and things will move and display properly as if they were running on that resolution natively. It'd be slow as heck, though - wouldn't want to try watching videos over it, and you'd have the remote-passthrough issues to deal with on top of everything else.
You could, I suppose, fold both machines into one by running something like VirtualPC, but again, it would have to support weird resolutions. In either case, too, you'd have problems with the mouse running off the screen.
Maybe you could run something to combine the two screens into a single screen as seen by the OS, and then run something else on top of that to split it up into three nonlinked desktops, with the middle being the primary one.
If you don't want to spin the screens 180 degrees, you can kinda-sorta work around the six-inch ghosting issue by running two separate remote-session windows which each look into half of an underlying desktop. You'd still have to work things so that your mouse was moving on that underlying desktop, though, or it would disappear every time you crossed from one side of the screen to another.
To summarize: It's possible, but fairly messy, and has a number of side-effects depending on how you want to go about it. Screens just aren't really meant to have bits chopped off them and still be in use, so there's not really a lot of software written to specifically address that problem.
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