Dual monitor Wallpapers

[captaincurran]

due to the size variance of my screens, i'm running my monitors presently with one at 800x600 32bit colour, and the other at 1024x768 32bit colour. since when i do a full 1024x768 wallpaper on them and it looks bad on the smaller resolution, i was wondering how i would go about making a wallpaper so it looks right on both screens and not just be the same image repeated for both screens.

[Daniel ~]

Resize the wallpaper that doesn't fit. save it to a file. The go to desktops> properties where you should find Two monitors. You have to first select that each monitor can use differing rez.

That's as near as I can recall.

[Kaitain]

Use 2 wallpapers, one at 1024x768 and one at 800x600. If you have a wallpaper currently designed for two monitors (say 2048x768) then cut it in half with photoshop, save it as two separate files and resize the second half.

To be honest, Windows' ability to scale is pretty good, so you'll probably find this still doesn't look great. Not everything scales well.

[Favu]

AFAIK windows doesn't let you settup two seperate wallpapers out of the box.

[Kaitain]

Originally Posted by Favu

AFAIK windows doesn't let you settup two seperate wallpapers out of the box.

You're right, it's driver specific. ATi and nVidia drivers provide the relevant extensions. However IIRC captaincurran's using separate video cards to drive each display. I vaguely recall that Windows then handles these as completely different displays and allows you to set up separate wallpapers. I could well be wrong, though...

[Favu]

I don't know, I can remember fiddling around with the nVidia drivers for a while when I was running dual displays and not finding anything

Let us know how it goes, Captain!

[Kaitain]

Here, I posted about it a while back. XP users only.

dual monitors

[captaincurran]

i'm just using the default drivers for the vid card, and using the only drivers i can find for the built in video. this is a screen shot of how my screens are. note the black space under the left screen

[Favu]

Screen shots will always turn out that way (or at least, always did for me)

[captaincurran]

but how do i go about changing the wallpaper so it's a different one on both screens?

[Kaitain]

Originally Posted by captaincurran

i'm just using the default drivers for the vid card, and using the only drivers i can find for the built in video. this is a screen shot of how my screens are. note the black space under the left screen

The screenshot proves it's running as two separate devices. The application bar only appears on the primary display.

How about... on one monitor, right click, go to properties and select the wallpaper, on the other monitor do likewise. What happens then?

[captaincurran]

changes both at once.

[Daniel ~]

You have to go through Nvidia properties.

[Toro]

that would be fine if you have an nvidia chipset.... or are you indicating that only nvidia can handle seperate desktop paterns?

[Daniel ~]

I seem to be missing something here, Is he running two cards or one, if one, is it Nvidia, if not forget my posts as Nivida, one card, is all I have any knowledge of... ":O}

[captaincurran]

i'm running one PCI video card - An ATI Radeon 7000, and i'm running the other monitor off my Mobo's video port. it's a SIS chipset i do believe.

[Favu]

Originally Posted by Kaitain

The screenshot proves it's running as two separate devices. The application bar only appears on the primary display.

That was exactly what I had when I was running two monitors from my 6600gt