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Dual-head feature???
Today, my boss has brought me a brand new G400 Dual-Head video card. He just wanted to avoid a purchase of very expansive large screen monitor, so he proposed me two use two smaller ones to build a single desctop by means of G400 dual-head video card. Although, he did not ever try this "feature" just heard some ads about this. However, when I tried it in the real life on my Windows 2000 system, I have found this feature very stupid and inconvenient especially when it is used to extend a desctop size. (I understand that it can be really useful to see DVD movie or special games). The inconvenience is that two screens are really acting as one desctop. If you maximize some window it will be expanded to occupy both screens, so you always have to manually resize windows to fit the only one screen. (Looking at the window occupying both screens may only cause hysterical laughter, because you always have a gap between monitors no metter how close they are, and it is really irritating to read the text breaking at the end of the one screen and continuing at the beggining of another)
Other problem is that some dialog boxes and messages are always appear at the center of the desctop. You again have to move them to the left or two the right, the worst case may happen if the dialog box is not movebale, it is rare case though.
So, I beleave that Matrox engineers did not think enough when designing this dual-head feature. But probably this is an issue of the Windows itself rather than problem of the drivers. The proper solution would be to have two different desctops (one of them is active - all new windows appear there). Taskbar should belong to one of desctops. When you maximize a window it should occupy only one screen (where it is actually located in). Users should be able to move windows from one desctop to another.
Is there anybody who reading this message and used to use the dual-head feature to extend a desctop? Do you find it convenient? Do you know special tricks to avoid the problems I just described?
Thanks,
Yurgis
Other problem is that some dialog boxes and messages are always appear at the center of the desctop. You again have to move them to the left or two the right, the worst case may happen if the dialog box is not movebale, it is rare case though.
So, I beleave that Matrox engineers did not think enough when designing this dual-head feature. But probably this is an issue of the Windows itself rather than problem of the drivers. The proper solution would be to have two different desctops (one of them is active - all new windows appear there). Taskbar should belong to one of desctops. When you maximize a window it should occupy only one screen (where it is actually located in). Users should be able to move windows from one desctop to another.
Is there anybody who reading this message and used to use the dual-head feature to extend a desctop? Do you find it convenient? Do you know special tricks to avoid the problems I just described?
Thanks,
Yurgis
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