Two displays

[DonkeyTron]

One time my dad hooked up two PC monitors up to his pc so then the mouse would jump from one monitor to the other. Is there a way i can do this with an old PC monitor and an IMac using the VGA connector. I have it kinda working except all the happened is now i have the same image on both screens, no mouse jumping. This would really help with my movie editing.

Thanx for any help given

 

[quigleybc]

try going to display preferances and turn "off mirroring" and mess with the display set up options.

 

[w_parietti22]

try going to display preferances and turn "off mirroring" and mess with the display set up options.

You have to go to "arangment" first though. If you have an iMac G5 you will need a hack to do this... if you have an intel iMac there is no need for it.

 

[Obsidian6]

depending on your iMac as stated above, you may need this program, it is called screen spanning doctor.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15401

the older iMacs had it written in their software that they wouldn't allow screen spanning, only mirroring ( which you are experiencing )

and yes, having dual displays is incredibly useful

good luck!