tech upgrade

[lagilman]

So I am writing this on my laptop...which is now hooked up to a larger monitor. And on one hand, this is great, and on the other it's... whoa. My eyes are still trying to explain to my brain (or maybe it's the other way around) what the fuck is going on.

Also: monitor has vertical and horizontal settings! It turns sideways! It's an owl-monitor!

Meanwhile, I'm wondering if there's a way to split the chores between screens, or if I have to use one or t'other. Nothing in the limited instruction book (mainly: how to set up the monitor) gives a peep on that. Anyone? Bueller? I figured it out. It's not ideal, because it's mirrored rather than independent (what I do on one shows up on the other, rather than running several things independently) but it gives me both monitors, so yay!

Comments

[silvergryphyn.livejournal.com]

Mac or windows? I can tell you how to do independent either way.

[lagilman]

Mac computer, Dell display. I seem to have somehow purely by dumb accident figured out how to do it, but a) the wrong things are on the wrong displays, and b) trying to get the cursor to move from one screen to another seems a matter of sheer luck and swearing....

[lagilman]

oh, wait. I seem to have figured it out. Go, me.

[silvergryphyn.livejournal.com]

Excellent!