As it states, post does, don'ts, tips, tricks, and advice for dual displays (monitors), extended desktop, and items dealing with that topic.
As i am in need of some dire information and cannot seem to find anything substantial.
All tips posted, will be edited into my first post as to keep it consolidated, informative, and organized.
I will start off with something very simple but very helpful to know.
1. You may move the menu bar and dock to the other screen by accessing system preferences / display / arrangement, and simply drag and drop then menu bar on to the screen of your choice.
2. Arrange the screens logically in the preference pane / display, as they are in real life. It is very hard on the brain to have to move your cursor left to get to the screen to your right.
3. If any display is not achieving the listed resolution or not performing as normal try reseting the display settings and saved info before trying anything else, while starting up hold P+R+Apple(key)+Option.
4. If your extended display will not go to the correct resolution try starting the computer with the display attached then closing it immediately, the machine will boot using the external display in the proper resolution. Now open the on board display, go into system prefs / displays and then press detect displays. The on board display activates, and the external is at proper res.
5. Multiple displays such as 2, 3, and even 4 display plus the laptop display may be achieved with items such as
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/home.php
there are also many more products on the market as well.
6. Calibration of extended desktop can be achieved by placing the menu bar on the external display and calibrating as you would with it on the laptop screen. Web sites such as http://www.bergdesign.com/supercal/ with there program called SuperCal will complete this task for you. It is compatible with OS X and OS 9.
7. When disconnecting or reconnecting external monitors, there is no need to do anything besides unplugging or re plugging it in. When you do either a blue screen should come up and then your desktop should appear.
To calculate the Pixels Per Inch (PPI) and the Dot Pitch (line pitch, phosphor pitch or pixel pitch)
http://www.thirdculture.com/joel/shumi/computer/hardware/ppicalc.html
or for just the PPI try
number of horizontal pixels
-------------------------------- = # of horizontal pixels
number of horizontal inches
For example:
1024 pixels
--------------------- = 102.4 pixels per horizontal inch
10 inches wide
for more info on both of these try
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_pitch
As i am in need of some dire information and cannot seem to find anything substantial.
All tips posted, will be edited into my first post as to keep it consolidated, informative, and organized.
I will start off with something very simple but very helpful to know.
1. You may move the menu bar and dock to the other screen by accessing system preferences / display / arrangement, and simply drag and drop then menu bar on to the screen of your choice.
2. Arrange the screens logically in the preference pane / display, as they are in real life. It is very hard on the brain to have to move your cursor left to get to the screen to your right.
3. If any display is not achieving the listed resolution or not performing as normal try reseting the display settings and saved info before trying anything else, while starting up hold P+R+Apple(key)+Option.
4. If your extended display will not go to the correct resolution try starting the computer with the display attached then closing it immediately, the machine will boot using the external display in the proper resolution. Now open the on board display, go into system prefs / displays and then press detect displays. The on board display activates, and the external is at proper res.
5. Multiple displays such as 2, 3, and even 4 display plus the laptop display may be achieved with items such as
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/home.php
there are also many more products on the market as well.
6. Calibration of extended desktop can be achieved by placing the menu bar on the external display and calibrating as you would with it on the laptop screen. Web sites such as http://www.bergdesign.com/supercal/ with there program called SuperCal will complete this task for you. It is compatible with OS X and OS 9.
7. When disconnecting or reconnecting external monitors, there is no need to do anything besides unplugging or re plugging it in. When you do either a blue screen should come up and then your desktop should appear.
To calculate the Pixels Per Inch (PPI) and the Dot Pitch (line pitch, phosphor pitch or pixel pitch)
http://www.thirdculture.com/joel/shumi/computer/hardware/ppicalc.html
or for just the PPI try
number of horizontal pixels
-------------------------------- = # of horizontal pixels
number of horizontal inches
For example:
1024 pixels
--------------------- = 102.4 pixels per horizontal inch
10 inches wide
for more info on both of these try
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_pitch
