Dualhead and ICQ

[Carceron]

Did anyone have any luck in moving ICQ to the second monitor when in dualhead mode?

Mine keeps sticking to the side of the first one

thanks for any help.

[Kruzin]

Nope.
ICQ won't move the she second monitor.
It's not smart enough not to dock at the side of the primary.

[Brian R.]

I have my ICQ windows in the second monitor. ?????

(W2K, G400 MAX, ICQ 2000b, PD 6.14.050)

[This message has been edited by Brian R. (edited 20 October 2000).]

[C=64]

<A HREF="http://"http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon"" TARGET=_blank>Try here</A>. UltraMon™ 2.0 Beta 2 should be able to do what you need.

[Kruzin]

Brian,
You are using 2K, which treats the desktop differently. It doesn't understand there are 2 monitors, just one desktop. We are using 9x, which splits the desktop. ICQ does not know not to dock on this case.

C=64, that link goes nowhere....

[Hunsow]

Try here then.

[C=64]

Opps... Thanks for correcting my incompetence Hunsow. I *really* should have double checked my message...

C=64

[Jorden]

You should be able to explain it to us, then, Maggi. For here it docks on the right side of my screen on the first monitor, when I try to move it.

Btw, same effect with Bookmarks in Netscape. You can move Netscape to the second monitor, but when you open up the bookmarks, they show on the 1st monitor.

Jord.

[Stringy]

This maybe more of a pain than just having it docked to your Main monitor, but..

what I've done is used the "Auto Hide" feature of ICQ2k, and while it's still docked to the Right of my main monitor, while it "hides" it is visible on my 2nd monitor...

quite nice really... ;o)


Craig

[MultimediaMan]

Ultramon will allow you to move program windows around, even those that "won't".

I spoke briefly with Ashley a while back at Entechtaiwan, and he said he MAY incorporate something similar when he gets PowerStrip v3.xx ready for rollout.

[DentyCracker]

When I was playing around with dual head (2° monitor is an IBM G40 POS), WMP7 wouldn't show video on the 2° Monitor. Weird. I think it happened under both 98 and 2k. I have since reinstalled both OSes and haven't used dualhead since (2° monitor in use on 2° system)

[Carceron]

Hmm thanks for the help guys. I was able to move icq to the seoond monitor with that utility. But as soon as you cloick on icq after that it just docks with the 1st monitor.

I guess I just have to live with it

[Maggi]

I'm not sure, but I think I have mine on 2nd VGA running W98 ...

Maybe it works only because I have it on top of my 1st VGA and not aside ???

The reason for not being sure is, that I didn't connect to the I-Net since a lightning strike blasted my modem away and I didn't get a new one yet and hence I didn't run ICQ for weeks now ...

Cheers,
Maggi

PS: Right now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure that I had it on 2nd VGA, cos after disabling DH, ICQ was still on its old location, i.e. I was not able to access it anymore until I reactivated my 2nd screen and after that I could drag it back to VGA 1.

[Maggi]

Originally posted by Jorden:
You should be able to explain it to us, then, Maggi. For here it docks on the right side of my screen on the first monitor, when I try to move it.

Btw, same effect with Bookmarks in Netscape. You can move Netscape to the second monitor, but when you open up the bookmarks, they show on the 1st monitor.

Jord.

Hi Jord,

as I said above, I have my 2nd monitor on top of my primary and maybe ICQ isn't meant to dock on the upper border of VGA1 ...

Just adjust the positioning of both in disp. props. to have the 2nd on top of 1st and drag ICQ over.

Don't know though if it works to realign your monitor afterwards back to the side you had it before.

Cheers,
Maggi