2 monitor setup question

~J~ · 30 Jul 2006 at 19:47

I'm probably gonna explain this rubbish, but bear with me...

At work, I use 2 monitor, a 15" and a 17". The ideal world would say that I should use 2 17" but this is irrelevant at the moment.

I'm thinking of buying the new VX2235 22" Viewsonic and at present I have a Viewsonic 912 19".

The resolution of the 912 is set to 1280x1024 and the max resolution of the 2235 is 1680x1050.

On my works monitors, because the resolutions are different, if I move my mouse from the 15" to the 17" it goes across no probs, but moving from the 17" to the 15" I have to ensure that the pointer is less than the maximum resolution of the 15" monitor otherwise it just 'sticks' to the monitor side.

With me so far?

So...

If I purchased the VX2235, whilst I appreciate there's a difference of 26 pixels vertically, can I set the resolution of the VX2235 to be x-amount by 1024?

Or would it simply be a case of the 26pixels are soooo insignificant that I'm being too picky?
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~J~ · 30 Jul 2006 at 23:06

Ooooo hello you two!! lol

Cheers for the answers, I know it's only 26pixels but hey, I'm fussy!.

Thanks anyway, I think the purchase is now a cert.

*EDIT*

Kreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, any chance of a photo so I can see what it looks like please?

~J~ · 22 Oct 2006 at 18:49

Heartless_King said:
Did you buy in the end J?

I'm interested in doing the same thing, I wanted to know what they look like next to each other

Also if you haven't there is no problem using different res on different screens

King

Yeah, although TBH, don't use the 19" one now. Didn't have any issues really, aesthetically there's a difference but practically the missing 20-odd pixels wasn't an issue at all.

~J~ · 22 Oct 2006 at 19:21

Yeah no worries, let me have sunday dinner and will sort it out for ya.

~J~ · 22 Oct 2006 at 23:53

Here you are King...

http://www.jasonmhirst.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/DSC02251.JPG

Not the best piccie, but have sized this thread over the two monitors.

The the bottom of the IE window is hitting the taskbar, but on the 19" standard, it's hitting the bottom of the monitor so all you lose is the taskbar.

~J~ · 23 Oct 2006 at 00:20

Heartless_King said:
Sorry I thought you had the VX2235 as you mentioned in your first post I already have that setup as you can see in my sig

Sorry J!

King

Ahhhh, get ya, sorry King.