Re: Using XyWrite with XP OS

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

> Obviously, you can use the
> built-in laptop screen plus one external monitor simultaneously,

Yes, that's what I do.
>  which (on my
> system) yields identical views of the Desktop (or the maximized|fullscreen
> foreground app) on both screens; but I didn't think that was what you were
> talking about...
No, it wasn't. Keep that set up but go to display/properties/settings and
the drop down box under "display" should give you the option of "multiple
monitors."
> After this hurdle, how do you go about dividing the Desktop real estate in
> half, or assigning apps to a given monitor, or -- what do you do? I've never
> attempted this. It seems to me that if you have a big external, say 21", with
> high resolution around 1400x1050 or more, you can comfortably display multiple
> apps without surrendering 4 feet of desk space. But it's an intriguing idea
Maybe one large is as good as two mediums. I don't have a 21" monitor, so I
couldn't say. My laptop monitor is 15" and the external is 17". In terms
of square inches, the two monitors give me 108 + 145 = 252. With a standard
4:3 aspect ratio, that is the equivalent of a 23" diagonal screen, if my
math is right. (Actually it's complicated, because the aspect ratio on the
external monitor is not 4:3.)
The built-in laptop monitor is set at 1280 x 800, and the external at 1280
x 1024--that seems to make the best appearance, even though the two
resolutions don't match.
As to where to deploy the various windows, that is settable for XY, run as
a PIF: right-clicking on the title bar of the open Xy window gives you
Properties/Layout/Window Position. I always have Xy open in the right
monitor, otherwise, I just take things as they come, and drag them around
as I wish.


Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx