Re: "presenter view" in OOo Impress

2004-05-21 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 11:55:17PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 16:43 -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > Matt Price wrote: > > > > >On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:30:12AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > >>Matt Price wrote: > > > >>Another idea might be to configure your laptop to use t

Re: "presenter view" in OOo Impress

2004-05-21 Thread Mark Roach
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 16:43 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > >On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:30:12AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > >>Matt Price wrote: > >>Another idea might be to configure your laptop to use the projector as a > >>second head, and configure X as a dual-head setup. > >>

Re: "presenter view" in OOo Impress

2004-05-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Kent West wrote: so, question: Is it actually possible to run a different X session on the projector? Having never had a laptop I could experiment much with, I don't know. I came across something last week that led me to believe that a laptop essentially has a "second video card" which it uses f

Re: "presenter view" in OOo Impress

2004-05-21 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: As I stop to think about it, I can't figure out how MS-Office could accomplish this without treating the projector as a second monitor. It seems to me that Office would be sending the same signal to a single video "chain", which then gets split by the laptop into the separate d

Re: "presenter view" in OOo Impress

2004-05-21 Thread Kent West
Matt Price wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:30:12AM -0500, Kent West wrote: Matt Price wrote: In it, the author discusses a new "presenter tools" view in MS office, which lets you see extra information on your laptop screen that isn't passed on to the projector (this is for powerpoint, obv

Re: "presenter view" in OOo Impress

2004-05-21 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:30:12AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > > >In it, the author discusses a new "presenter tools" view in MS office, > >which lets you see extra information on your laptop screen that isn't > >passed on to the projector (this is for powerpoint, obviously). >

Re: "presenter view" in OOo Impress

2004-05-21 Thread Kent West
Matt Price wrote: Hey folks, was justreading this article inthe New York Times about the new version of MS Office for Mac: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/20/technology/circuits/20stat.html In it, the author discusses a new "presenter tools" view in MS office, which lets you see extra information

"presenter view" in OOo Impress

2004-05-21 Thread Matt Price
Hey folks, was justreading this article inthe New York Times about the new version of MS Office for Mac: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/20/technology/circuits/20stat.html In it, the author discusses a new "presenter tools" view in MS office, which lets you see extra information on your laptop