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Stuart 2009-02-19 20:47
OK, I’ve just downloaded the trial version and I’m trying to get it set up and working in the way I want before I buy. I thought I had it set up last night in a way that was OK but not ideal … went to bed at 1am, and when I got up at 6am it had reverted back to two monitors displaying the same thing … which is the default starting point.
I have a windows 64 bit operating system, and a PC that is attached to a 22” widescreen monitor that sits on a desk, and a 46” plasma on the wall.
I want to set it up so that I can switch between two display setups
1) My personal default being The media centre opens on the plasma TV and then lets me release my mouse back to the desktop so that I can surf and use the computer on the other screen
2) With the option to easily revert back to the very simple default setting of the same thing on both screens, without having to spend loads of time playing with settings to get it back the default
I got option 2 working and then the PC fairies came in the night and trashed things back to setting 1. I haven’t quite worked out which features of the software I need to be enabling and whether I need to be playing around with scripting. I had managed to set up hot keys to move the mouse between screens.
I had set up my plasma as display 1 and the monitor on screen 2. When I clicked the open media centre button on my PC it opened it on the TV as I wanted, but trapped the mouse until I ALT + TAB and my hot keys wouldn’t un-trap it. The biggest problem is that all my set-up work has now just trashed itself.
Does anyone have links to tutorials as to how to set things up? Particularly saving display set-ups. The screen shots on the website look like and old version of the software because they don’t match what I’m seeing.
Do I need to be using scripting, because the software doesn’t seem to quite work how I’m expecting? Is the use of scripting pretty standard to get things how you want … or is it more for advanced stuff?
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Christian Studer 2009-02-20 09:32
UltraMon probably won't help with this.
1) is application-specific, you'll need to use the application's method to free the mouse.
2) might work if you disable the secondary monitor via UltraMon, but this depends on the video card driver. UltraMon can't specifically change the video card from extended desktop to clone mode, you would need to do this via the software for the video card.
You could use UltraMon's mirroring feature instead, but this is done via software and will be slower than the video card's clone mode.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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