Back in March, my PC at work packed up and I got a replacement. I used the opportunity to kick off my Desktop Revolution: these changes have ‘stuck’ and I think I’m managing my time much better.
However, when I ordered that new PC, I ordered two monitors for it: two identical 19″ TFT screens. When I first tried setting it up, I couldn’t get the second monitor to do anything useful: I was only able to set it up in one of the following combinations:
- First screen ‘normal’, second screen blank;
- First screen ‘blank’, second screen ‘normal’;
- Both screens showing the same (‘normal’) thing;
- Both screens blank.
Not really a great success, I have to admit. And that second monitor has sat, unused, in the corner of my room ever since.
On Monday, something made me want to try again with the dual-screen setup, so I gave it a go. Success! I now have the two screens side by side, displaying a double-width desktop: twice the screen space. As the mouse moves off the right-hand side of the LH screen, it appears on the left-hand side of the RH screen, and so on: you can drag windows from one side to the other. It makes certain programming and development work much friendlier, because there’s so much more space to see things simultaneously.
And only seven months too late.