Xiao Zuo teaches you how to set up multiple monitors in Windows 8 to make your screen display cool.
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Table of Contents:
1. Setting up multiple monitors
2. Key features for dual monitors
3. Connecting monitors
1.
Multiple monitors
have introduced some changes that will provide a better experience for users who connect multiple monitors to their computers.
You can start using multiple monitors from the Windows UI or the desktop interface.
For Windows UI:
1. Windows Charms can be called by sliding your finger from the right side or moving the mouse cursor to one of the right corners.
2. Select equipment.
3. Select the second screen.
4. There are four options: PC screen only (“PC screen only), Duplicate(“copy”), Extend(“extension”), and Second screen only(“only Two screens & rdquo;). Choose the best option for you.
These options will allow you to configure the screen as follows:
PC screen only(“PC screen only) - The second screen will be ignored and only the PC's main display will be used.
Duplicate - The second screen mirrors the main display.
Extend - Extends the PC display to span two screens and allows you to have a desktop across two screens or
use the Windows UI on one screen and the desktop on the other.
Second screen only - The main PC display will be disabled and only the second screen will be used.
For the traditional desktop mode: 1. Go to “Control Panel” and select “Show”.
2. Select "Change display settings" on the left side.
3. In the “Change Display Settings window, click and drag the virtual display to mimic your physical settings.
4. Click “OK” to complete the operation.
2.
Key features enhanced for dual monitors
• Corners and edges are active on all displays
oBrowse by clicking the corners of the screen, or by touching the edges of the screen Browsing is part of the Windows 8 core browsing experience. It is important to support these corners and edges in the right way on a PC with multiple displays. Windows 8 accomplishes this by
making the edges and edges of all connected displays active.
o When it comes to Windows UI and applications, there is no single main display concept. The display you access to a corner on it
will be the display that displays the interface.
Accessing from the left corner "Start” screen or previous application will always open the UI on the display where you access its corners.
This also applies to the Charms Bar.
• Easily move the WindowsUI application to another monitor o By dragging the Windows UI application on the top edge and dragging it from one monitor to another, you can easily move the Windows UI The application moves to another display.
If the app has been crawled, it will also be crawled on other monitors.
o You can also move Windows UI applications from one monitor to another by using the keyboard shortcuts Win+PgUp and Win+PgDn.
Windows UI Applications Can only be displayed on one display at a time.
• Browsing along shared edges has improved
o On a PC with multiple monitors, one or more screen edges may be shared. For example, two monitors placed next to each other (where each monitor has the same screen resolution) will share the top and bottom edges of the screen. Because corners are very important for browsing in Windows 8, we need to be able to easily click on each corner, but when you can't
move your mouse to any corner like on a single monitor system This operation is difficult to achieve.
o To solve this problem, we created real corners on the shared edge so that once you click on the corners, you will not allow you to accidentally cross the corner boundaries once you click on the corners. It does this by extending the corners on the shared edge. Therefore, if you move along the edge and click on the corner (within 6 pixels), the mouse will stop. You can think of it as a 6 pixel
wall that extends from the shared corner.
In the screenshot, the red line indicates where you will enter the real corner.
Figure 1: Red corners indicate the true corner position
• Now, the taskbar is displayed by default on all displays
o in the case of multiple monitors connected, Windows 8 will draw the taskbar on each display. By default, all taskbar icons
are displayed on the main display and on the taskbar of all other displays
Figure 2: The taskbar is stretched to span each display
o to use the task The column properties configure the taskbar in multiple displays.
To configure, perform the following steps:
1. Right click on the taskbar 2. Select Properties
3. Multiple Displays on the Taskbar (“Taskbar”) tab In multiple monitors, make sure the Show Taskbar on all Displays checkbox is checked
4. Then click or click OK
o you can use the options to control the display The taskbar icon shown above: All icons on all monitors (“all icons on all displays”), All icons
on main taskbar and taskbars on other displays(“the main taskbar and other monitors' taskbars All icons above will be displayed only on the display where the application is running, or only on the taskbar of
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• Setting a different background for each monitor
o You can now set a different background for each monitor. When choosing a personalized theme, Windows 8 automatically
places different desktop backgrounds on each display. You can even set up a slideshow to cycle through the images on all
displays or select a specific background image for each display.
Figure 3: Different backgrounds on each monitor
o When you right-click on the image in the Personalization(“Personalization”) control panel, you will see an option. Control which display
appears on the background.
Figure 4: Setting the background for each monitor
• Multi-monitor slideshows
o People usually have multi-monitor settings that contain displays of different sizes and/or orientations. Of course,
not all photos look great in portrait and landscape or all screen sizes and resolutions. To solve this problem, we added logic to the
slideshow to choose the most appropriate image for each monitor.
Figure 5: Windows will automatically select the appropriate size and orientation for the slideshow
• Desktop background across all monitors
o You can now make a single panorama across multiple monitors. We also include a new panorama theme in Windows 8's personalization options.
Figure 6: Desktop background across the monitor
o To set this up, select the Panorama desktop image and then select Span as the picture position (“ by image position spanning ”).
3.
Connecting the display
Connect the monitor cable from the monitor to your laptop or desktop.