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- /FHQ14: How do I use two monitors under DESQview?/FB
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- You can use two monitors only in DVC and DV386. DVX does not support
- two monitors.
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- DVC and DV386 will only control one of your monitors, and by default all
- programs will use the monitor that DESQview controls. There are a
- number of ways to make programs start up on the ``other'' monitor. Since
- you will usually want DESQview to control the color monitor (except
- perhaps in the case of a CGA), the following discussion assumes that
- DESQview is controlling the color monitor and not the monochrome
- monitor.
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- First, you can use a batch file and include a ``MODE MONO'' statement to
- switch the program to the monochrome monitor. Second, you can use the
- ``initial mode'' field to specify the monitor on which the program will
- start (however, this setting is ignored unless you also set ``writes
- directly to screen'' to Y and ``virtualize'' to N). By setting the
- initial mode to 7, you force the program to use the monochrome monitor
- until it explicitly switches monitors. Note that DESQview tends to stop
- updating the monochrome screen while the program is in the background if
- the program ever switches to the color display (including starting on
- the color display with the first method above).
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- The initial mode can also be set to 21 or 22 for Hercules Graphics mode.
- These modes only allow one page of mono graphics /JB(see Q13)/q7.txt/. Mode 21 is
- Page 0 at address B000h, and Mode 22 is Page 1 at address B800h. Hence,
- Mode 22 is not available with two monitors (it conflicts with color
- video).
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