agentwalker 2008-05-31 03:53
I've got two profiles setup for my three monitors.
One profile is for the desktop only view which sets my the resolution on my 2nd screen to 1280x1024. My Seccond profile is when I want to use my HDTV in the other room. which sets the resolution to 1360x768.
Now the problem here is that when I switch to the 1360x768 the wallpaper on that screen is still the one for the 1280x1024.
Is there any way I can link the two profiles to separate wallpaper profiles? so when I switch to the HDTV profile it switches the wallpaper on that screen to one suitable for that res?.
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Christian Studer 2008-05-31 10:05
Not directly, but it would be possible to do this from a batch (.bat file), here's a sample file:
"%ProgramFiles%\UltraMon\UltraMonShortcuts.exe" /l C:\Users\Christian\AppData\Roaming\Realtime Soft\UltraMon\3.0.2\Profiles\Test.umprofile
"%ProgramFiles%\UltraMon\UltramonDesktop.exe" /load C:\Users\Christian\AppData\Roaming\Realtime Soft\UltraMon\3.0.2\Wallpapers\Test.wallpaper
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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agentwalker 2008-05-31 23:18
Thanks mate worked a treat
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John 2009-01-26 18:29
The wallpaper-change works in that batch script if I added quotes around the directory leading to the ".wallpaper" files, but I can't get UltraMonShortcuts to do anything.
Here's my current batch file:
@echo OFF
"%ProgramFiles%\UltraMon\UltraMonShortcuts.exe" /l "C:\Users\John\AppData\Roaming\Realtime Soft\UltraMon\3.0.4\Profiles\Home.umprofile"
"%ProgramFiles%\UltraMon\UltramonDesktop.exe" /load "C:\Users\John\AppData\Roaming\Realtime Soft\UltraMon\3.0.4\Wallpapers\Home.wallpaper"
The wallpaper will correctly change, the display profile will not. Any ideas?
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John 2009-01-26 18:51
Disclaimer: running Ultramon 3.0.4 on Vista Ultimate 64-bit.
There seems to be too problems:
1) UltraMonShort in general likes to stop responding very quickly after UltraMon is launched in this version. I can't even right-click the tray icon after UltraMon has been open for more than a few minutes.
2) UltraMonDesktop is rather stubborn with fixing it's wallpaper mishaps. The /refresh command doesn't work as expected and will usually not fix what is wrong with the wallpaper.
I have here two batch scripts that will load the profile manually (to do this, browse to your profiles folder, right-click -> Open With... and set it to default to UltraMon Desktop) then force UltraMonDesktop to flush through wallpapers. Copy these to text files in Notepad and save them as ".bat" files. Don't forget to change 1 and 2 to whatever your profiles/wallpapers are saved as.
TO CHANGE FROM SCHEME 2 TO 1
@echo OFF
cd "C:\Users\John\AppData\Roaming\Realtime Soft\UltraMon\3.0.4\Profiles\"
1.umprofile
cd "%ProgramFiles%\UltraMon\"
UltramonDesktop.exe /load "C:\Users\John\AppData\Roaming\Realtime Soft\UltraMon\3.0.4\Wallpapers\2.wallpaper"
UltramonDesktop.exe /refresh
UltramonDesktop.exe /load "C:\Users\John\AppData\Roaming\Realtime Soft\UltraMon\3.0.4\Wallpapers\1.wallpaper"
UltramonDesktop.exe /refresh
TO CHANGE FROM SCHEME 1 TO 2
@echo OFF
cd "C:\Users\John\AppData\Roaming\Realtime Soft\UltraMon\3.0.4\Profiles\"
2.umprofile
cd "%ProgramFiles%\UltraMon\"
UltramonDesktop.exe /load "C:\Users\John\AppData\Roaming\Realtime Soft\UltraMon\3.0.4\Wallpapers\1.wallpaper"
UltramonDesktop /refresh
UltramonDesktop.exe /load "C:\Users\John\AppData\Roaming\Realtime Soft\UltraMon\3.0.4\Wallpapers\2.wallpaper"
UltramonDesktop.exe /refresh
Didn't say it was pretty, but if you don't get a seizure you'll have the right settings in the end.
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John 2009-01-26 18:51
First paragraph: and by too I meant two...
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John 2009-01-26 18:53
Also first paragraph: "it's" should be "its"... long night...
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Christian Studer 2009-01-27 10:39
Don't quote the profile filename, even if it contains spaces:
"%ProgramFiles%\UltraMon\UltraMonShortcuts.exe" /l C:\Users\John\AppData\Roaming\Realtime Soft\UltraMon\3.0.4\Profiles\Home.umprofile
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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