EveryJoe » dual monitors http://www.everyjoe.com Sports News - Tech Reviews - Entertainment - Life Tips for EveryJoe Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:29:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Working with Dual-Monitors Is a Must http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/working-with-dual-monitors-is-a-must/ http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/working-with-dual-monitors-is-a-must/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:29:24 +0000 Jason Bean http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/working-with-dual-monitors-is-a-must/ Post from: EveryJoe

Working with Dual-Monitors Is a Must

]]> I don’t really have an office that I work from on a daily basis. I’m normally either working onsite with a client most of the time, or if I’m not onsite I usually prefer to work from my local independent coffee shop or Starbucks if I need an office that’s "open late".

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When I’m working onsite with a client though I’m almost always packing in a Dell 17" LCD monitor with me to setup and work with while there. You see, I’ve started working with dual-monitors and now I can’t hardly stand to work without them. Thus always carrying around a monitor in addition to my laptop bag. I do get a few looks from people that either think I’m stealing a monitor. Many of them I’m sure have never worked with dual-monitors though and just don’t get it.

The ability to have in my case 32"+ of screen real-estate is extremely valuable to me. I’m not worried about travelling light and mobile with the smallest netbook in my pocket. I’m interested in having as much computing power as I can, including monitor, in as portable a fashion as I can imagine. That doesn’t necessarily mean light.  What’s more important to me is quick and easy deployment.

I’ve been working on an idea for a self-standing monitor case that would protect the screen during transport and unfold around it to serve as a stand when you’re setup. Of course that is until someone develops me a laptop like this one.

Since I’m unpacking and packing up almost daily, I’m more interested in a monitor where the cables are quick to attach, remove and store. The same goes with other peripherals too, but improving the experience for those of us addicted to working with two monitors would be my priority.

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Working with Dual-Monitors Is a Must

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My Experiments With PrtSc

]]> Ever since I made the post about using dual monitors, one issue has been buzzing in my mind. What happens when you take a PrtSc of dual monitors? Is there a way to take only one of them?

The following screenshots show you what I found out.

1. PrtSc
Both the screens are side by side and they are placed as per their orientation in the Display settings. Here, the secondary monitor is to the left of the primary one and their bottom edges share an axis.

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2. Alt+PrtSc
Just the secondary monitor!

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3. Alt +PrtSc Again
Wait. That is just one part of the primary monitor.

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Turns out, pressing Alt+PrtSc when a window is selected snaps only that window. How convenient.

There is no way to capture just one of the monitors directly to my knowledge. Image editing softwares, including MS Paint can achieve that purpose. Apparently GIMP, an open source software, can take screenshot of a single screen directly as well.

Image Sources: 1, 2, 3 using PrtSc on my desktop.

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My Experiments With PrtSc

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