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3 September, 2021 at 7:32 am #4417
Nathan_K
ParticipantIs there a way for DTI to show on all monitors? I’d like the option to display it on all my monitors, not just the primary or active monitor. That way if I have something in full screen on my primary, I can still see the info on my secondary monitor.
Thanks Glenn. Awesome work as always.
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3 September, 2021 at 7:43 am #4418
DougH
ParticipantI have it only on my second (smaller) monitor. =0 would be primary monitor. You might try 0,1 look at page 14 in the pdf doc.
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# size and positionmonitor-num=1
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3 September, 2021 at 11:13 am #4419
Nathan_K
ParticipantThanks for the idea DougH, but the 0,1 option doesn’t work. I’d already read the manual, on page 14 even, and didn’t see an option for more than one monitor, just which monitor, or virtual desktop, so I asked.
Glenn, if this is something that could be added if it doesn’t exist, that would be great. Maybe the option for 0,1,3,5 as an example of monitors 0,1,3 and 5? And maybe a -1 option for “all”? Not sure how much of a P.I.T.A. that might be, but it would be useful to more than just me I’m sure.
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3 September, 2021 at 12:03 pm #4420
DougH
ParticipantI just tried it with and without he comma. No luck.
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3 September, 2021 at 1:28 pm #4425
webmaster
KeymasterThis is not a trivial task. You run into the whole issue of duplicating the display on monitors of differing specs. I’m still struggling to understand what Windows and/or Delphi is doing to my controls when the dpi is different from the design dpi.
You can always run multiple instances. that’s getting easier now. For example, set up a batch file that calls desktopinfo with different options section /o (page 10).
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9 September, 2021 at 11:21 pm #4454
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14 June, 2022 at 3:35 am #5368
Tadd H
ParticipantIs this still the process that is needed for having it on multiple screens?
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14 June, 2022 at 6:21 am #5369
webmaster
KeymasterThe following thought process is evolving…
I can imagine a scenario where Desktop Info becomes it’s own shared collector. See External Collectors about page 40. The first instance writes it’s data to a shared memory area, the second instance reads it with a series of COLLECTOR items and displays it.
This would be a really low cpu approach by avoiding duplicating the system queries and would be a simple addition (I think, I don’t have the code handy at the moment). It’s kind of equivalent to using the remote server option but without needing to run the remote server, it’s internal to a single Windows instance.
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14 June, 2022 at 6:25 am #5371
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