Dual Monitors Act as One Virtual

[Josh Kahane]

I was wondering if in anyway possible on a mac I can make my two monitors at the moment act as one virtual monitor? Know what I mean? So I want like one extra wide resolution which would cover both screens, not a separate resolution for each. Hope this is possible, much be in some way. Thanks.

 

[themanfromvlad]

System Settings>Displays>Arrangement and make sure "Mirror Displays" is NOT checked.

 

[Josh Kahane]

Thats what I have at the moment. I want it so that rather it being the current two displays side by side, I want it to act as one really wide display. Make sense?

 

[spinnerlys]

You mean, with the menu bar going over both displays or even the background image?

As far as I know, that is not possible.

But have still two displays side by side expanding your desktop.

 

[yippy]

Through software I am not sure if it is possible or if anyone has done it.

However, using dualhead2go should work. It takes the output from a single DVI or VGA out and splits it across two screens. Of course, it costs $100-200 but if making them one screen is important to you it might be worth it.

 

[Josh Kahane]

Yep thats what I mean. Like these two images show windows preferences for ATI and nVidia cards:

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4586/2jq1.jpg

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/7543/untitledjy9.jpg

So, for instance when opening a game, it would stretch across two screens; and not just go fullscreen on one monitor and leave the other black.

 

[Guiyon]

As far as I know, horizontal spanning is not supported on Mac OS X. Then again, it's not supported on Vista or Windows 7 either.