[NTLUG:Discuss] 2 displays

[Steve Baker]

Allen Flick wrote:
> 
> Well, let me throw uot my ignorance with a question, too.
> 
> What about those many guys I've seen that take their laptops
> to conferences and hook up some output to the overhead
> display unit.  Then that person sits at the table or desk watching
> his/her laptop screen while everyone else in the big conferecne
> room are watching the video output being sent from the laptop
> through the overhead.

My boss does this with his laptop (running some variety of Windoze)
and what his can do is to display the output of one *window* onto
the video output whilst displaying the *whole* desktop on the other.

For slideshows, this means that he can see the controls *and* the
slides but the people watching the video output see only the
slides.  However, if he overlaps the slide with another window, that
*DOES* show up on the video output so they aren't separate frame
buffers.

I don't think there is a way to display two completely different
images though (although some desktop video cards can do that - so
you might get lucky and find a laptop that can do it).

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