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From: jfm@ruddles.sprl.umich.edu.engin.umich.edu (John F. Mansfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: multiple mac displays
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Date: 24 Apr 89 23:17:00 GMT
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In article <10654@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke) writes:
>In article <2680@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> gw@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Gerhard Werner) writes:
>>Does anyone have any information on driving multiple duplicate
>>displays (i.e. more than one monitor) from a single MacII,
>>using the standard Mac video card(s).
>
>  I believe all you need to do is put a video card in the MacII and plug
>a monitor into it.  The Monitor CDEV will then allow you to configure
>the two monitors to display them however you want.
>


Thats totally correct, I am writing this from a MacII with 2 monitors,
one color and one monochrome.  Both have 8-bit video boards.  In the
monitor cdev you can rearrange how they are placed wrt one another and
also where the menu bar and disk icons go.  The placement of the
startup screen is also selectable (you hold down the option key when
selecting the monitor icom in th econtrol panel).  The changes take
effect after reboot.  One thing that you cant do, that I would like is
to have the menu bar on one screen and the disk icons on the other. I
can do this using macromaker or somesuch but I would rather have them
configurable from the control panel.  I keep most of my finder windows
on the mono monitor and the active application(s) on the color
monitor. Trouble is MS Word and the like like to use the whole screen
and so you have to keep resizing windows to see the disk icons.  I may
be being dumb here but I havent read enough of my MS Word manual to
make the default window just small enough to see the disk icons.  

One
word of warning, once you have used 2 monitors you can never get used
to just one, let alone an SE or Plus screen!!

Hope this is of interest.
Cheers Jfm.



John Mansfield
North Campus Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory 2455 Hayward, Ann Arbor,
Michigan 48109-2143. 313-936-3352
Internet: jfm@ruddles.sprl.umich.edu or john_mansfield.um.cc.umich.edu