Multi-monitor fuddle

So I've been a happy user of RK Launcher for a good few months now and when I first loaded it up I noticed I couldn't switch monitors with it. I remember having this problem with Y'z Dock as well, where it would appear on whichever monitor I defined as my primary and the "Enable multimonitor support" checkbox was disabled.

This wasn't much of a problem at the time, I just changed my primary monitor to what I actually consider to be my secondary monitor (with Gaim, Rainmeter, iTunes, and other misc programs) so RK Launcher would reside there, and my actual "primary" monitor, now set to be my second monitor, was free. That is, it wasn't much of a problem until I started playing games again, and games also like loading up on the primary monitor. Thus this had my playing on my secondary, which not only is a much worse monitor, but has all my other programs running on it which compete with fullscreen games.

So uh, I'm pretty sure my lack of multi-monitor "support" is due to my using nVidia's DualView setting, but what do I do to fix this?

#342120

you can just set a key command to switch to a single monitor when gaming.

this will increase your overall framerate as well

#342121

Yeah, but:

1. My rig isn't good enough for me to actually care about the framerate.

2. That would still require me to shut down Rainmeter and RK Launcher

3. I would lose the ability to see what people are IMing me at the same time

4. At the rate I do all that I might as well just do what I'm doing now (closing RK Launcher and changing primary) which suddenly seems like far less of an inconvenience.

Plus, workarounds should always be the last resort in programming. Unless you work for Microsoft.

#342125

Try rocket dock, it has multi-mon support.

#342127

At the risk of sounding obstinate, I already have ObjectDock which works with multiple monitors, and that's not why I'm posting the question here.... I'm looking for solutions, not workarounds.

#342201

Try rocket dock, it has multi-mon support.

#342263

I was not trying to advertise other apps. (I didn't know some apps were unmentionable on A-S) Sooooo sorry. >_>

#342441

@Smoovie: you didn't understand. It's not nice to talk about other docks in raduking's subforum -hint hint - the guy who created RK Launcher. Raduking has full right to get disturbed with such comments - after all he has put a ton of effort to his app which he's giving away to you guys for free. It's just a matter of respect and politeness.

#342511

Thanks for clarifying Pe8er. That makes alot more sense than a comment from the hip. I hadn't noticed and will try to be more observant in the future,

raduking .... again I appologize .... for real this time.

#342661

Alright, Raduking, thanks for the clarification, the existence of the multimonitor checkbox made it look like the program was capable of multimonitor support and just not detecting it for some reason.

Cool, great work as always.

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