Dual Monitor help

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zachpruckowskizachpruckowski
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I just started running a dual monitor set-up a few weeks ago. I'm using a 20-inch widescreen and a boring old 17 Dell CRT. I love it, and could never switch back to one monitor. My one major issue that when I set some things to full screen (like games or the iTunes Visualizer), it'll blank the other display, which is annoying, as I'd like to IM while playing Civ4 full screen or just have the visualizer running for fun when I'm not using that monitor.



Is there some sort of hack to enable this behavior?

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    aquamacaquamac Posts: 585member
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    Originally Posted by ZachPruckowski View Post


    I just started running a dual monitor set-up a few weeks ago. I'm using a 20-inch widescreen and a boring old 17 Dell CRT. I love it, and could never switch back to one monitor. My one major issue that when I set some things to full screen (like games or the iTunes Visualizer), it'll blank the other display, which is annoying, as I'd like to IM while playing Civ4 full screen or just have the visualizer running for fun when I'm not using that monitor.



    Is there some sort of hack to enable this behavior?



    These modes are special system calls to eliminate other extraneous applications from using the processor. So you get a smooth iTunes effect or quick gaming action. You would need a serious hack to run an IM client running while it this mode. Sorry.
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    atlasatlas Posts: 90member
    You could, however, run your game in window mode and enlarge the window to fully take the size of one screen then use the second one for whatever.
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