Fullscreen visualization with dual monitors

Aberrant Animus · 9th April 2008, 20:34

I currently have two monitors that I use, one a 19" wide screen and the other 22" wide screen. I have Winamp constantly running in the smaller monitor and have the larger one as my primary monitor. Whenever I try to run the visualization full screen, it maximizes in my larger monitor. How can I configure it so that it will maximize in the smaller monitor without setting the smaller monitor as my primary Windows monitor?

mormegil007 · 10th April 2008, 15:19

I have the same problem. The best I can come up with is two... well... they're hacks, to be honest. One is to set the primary monitor to the one you want to keep the winamp visualizations on. Then just move all your desktop items back to the other monitor by dragging and dropping. This includes your task bar. If you don't disconnect the dual monitor configuration a lot this may server you well. If not, you can just do what I do, which is just to set winamp to always on top and make the visualizations screen as large as possible. The reason why winamp does this is that it uses the graphics card to create the visualizations instead of just playing files through it like movies... so going fullscreen always seems to get my card to reset, which means it moves everything back to the primary monitor as though I were unplugging the secondary monitor for a second and then plugging it back in.

Aberrant Animus · 10th April 2008, 21:06

Thanks for that help. After some careful experimentation, I find that setting Eggdrop to use "fake fullscreen" to fullscreen, I can just move Winamp to my second monitor and go fullscreen there.

9th April 2008, 20:34	#1
Aberrant Animus Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: wat Posts: 2	Fullscreen visualization with dual monitors I currently have two monitors that I use, one a 19" wide screen and the other 22" wide screen. I have Winamp constantly running in the smaller monitor and have the larger one as my primary monitor. Whenever I try to run the visualization full screen, it maximizes in my larger monitor. How can I configure it so that it will maximize in the smaller monitor without setting the smaller monitor as my primary Windows monitor?

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10th April 2008, 15:19	#2
mormegil007 Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 3	I have the same problem. The best I can come up with is two... well... they're hacks, to be honest. One is to set the primary monitor to the one you want to keep the winamp visualizations on. Then just move all your desktop items back to the other monitor by dragging and dropping. This includes your task bar. If you don't disconnect the dual monitor configuration a lot this may server you well. If not, you can just do what I do, which is just to set winamp to always on top and make the visualizations screen as large as possible. The reason why winamp does this is that it uses the graphics card to create the visualizations instead of just playing files through it like movies... so going fullscreen always seems to get my card to reset, which means it moves everything back to the primary monitor as though I were unplugging the secondary monitor for a second and then plugging it back in.

10th April 2008, 21:06	#3
Aberrant Animus Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: wat Posts: 2	Thanks for that help. After some careful experimentation, I find that setting Eggdrop to use "fake fullscreen" to fullscreen, I can just move Winamp to my second monitor and go fullscreen there.