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From: akm@cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows and two monitors
Summary: non-sdk uses for second monitor
Keywords: quick help
Message-ID: <1990Oct10.042311.10010@cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: 10 Oct 90 04:23:11 GMT
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In article <18950041@hpfinote.HP.COM> pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim) writes:
>> My problem and the bad news is that I loose the cursor on the mono
>> screen. It sits resolutely in the little window on the VGA screen.
>Roughly the same problem here. I have ATI VGA Wonder and a Hercules
>compatible card. Haven't tried editing in the mono monitor environment.
>But under 4DOS, the cursor is always on the top left corner of the
>mono screen. When running Xtree, the high-light cursor is displayed
>in the right place. ... will try editing soon.
>
(I run 4dos too). Seems to me that the cursor gets initialized to the
top left hand corner of the monochrome card at boot time, and never
gets moved from there. (Assuming that you go to windows straight after
booting). Essentially, I find that any application that wants to move
the cursor ends up moving it on the VGA screen, under the virual
display that windows sets up for the dos session.

However, applications like XTREE that *don't* use a cursor (as defined
by the hardware(?)) can be used effectively. One such application is
quick help. So I now use qh in the second monitor. Works like a
charm!!


kartik
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