Well this might get slight confusing, I will try to explain my dilemma as best as
I can, so bear with me. I have fiddled with the nVidia settings for at least an hour with no avail (I do have the latest drivers) What I am trying to do is set up a dual display thing. I have a 22 inch 1600x1050 monitor and I have a small 7 inch screen that I can hook up to my nVidia 6800 graphics card through the S-video. What I want to do is keep my normal desktop as I have it. I have it set at native resolution, etc. I want to make it possible to display things such as widgets (I have the yahoo widget program) or certain programs like Media Player on the small display. That way I can play a game or something on my normal big screen and still see a clock, other widgets, etc on the small screen. I have found out I can clone the two screens which doesn’t work because it displays the same thing twice. I can try the horizontal/vertical span but that hasn’t worked either. It screws up the look of my normal display. I want it to remain normal 1600x1050 while the small screen stays at say 800x600 or smaller. Want I really want is basically these screens to be unrelated, if that makes sense. Each running independently but still allowing me to easily drag windows/widgets/etc from one screen to another. Is there a way to do this? Do I need a different program? Please let me know if you have any questions.
Summary: Have one display show my desktop, start bar, task bar, all that jazz. Have the other smaller display be like a second desktop without any start bars/etc but still being able to display things like widgets and other programs.
Thanks!
I can, so bear with me. I have fiddled with the nVidia settings for at least an hour with no avail (I do have the latest drivers) What I am trying to do is set up a dual display thing. I have a 22 inch 1600x1050 monitor and I have a small 7 inch screen that I can hook up to my nVidia 6800 graphics card through the S-video. What I want to do is keep my normal desktop as I have it. I have it set at native resolution, etc. I want to make it possible to display things such as widgets (I have the yahoo widget program) or certain programs like Media Player on the small display. That way I can play a game or something on my normal big screen and still see a clock, other widgets, etc on the small screen. I have found out I can clone the two screens which doesn’t work because it displays the same thing twice. I can try the horizontal/vertical span but that hasn’t worked either. It screws up the look of my normal display. I want it to remain normal 1600x1050 while the small screen stays at say 800x600 or smaller. Want I really want is basically these screens to be unrelated, if that makes sense. Each running independently but still allowing me to easily drag windows/widgets/etc from one screen to another. Is there a way to do this? Do I need a different program? Please let me know if you have any questions.
Summary: Have one display show my desktop, start bar, task bar, all that jazz. Have the other smaller display be like a second desktop without any start bars/etc but still being able to display things like widgets and other programs.
Thanks!
