Eric: The last time somebody requested this (Dean Howell-Fellows, two weeks ago, subject: "WinVNC Quad monitor support."), I replied to the list and stated that I had done a patch to get this working. I got 0 responses and 8 downloads. Apparently, I have to conclude it isn't a very popular problem. I try again: <quote> OK, I keep forgetting to announce this, but here goes. A few months ago I mentioned that I had worked on the starts of a patch to do multiple monitors last year. Well, on the encouragement of a few people from this list, I continued working on it, and I ended up with something that works very well. Then I ended watching two months of my life go by in fast forward, bringing me here. I have plans on more features I want to add to it (such as being able to address individual monitors separately through different display numbers), but what I have _would_ do what Dean wants :). Right now it just creates a bounding box of all the monitors on the screen and remotes that larger window. The mouse code is a little sketchy on Windows 98, but it detects if you have 2000 (or if you just don't have multiple monitors, in which case it uses the original mouse code) and then uses a much cleaner method. Problem being you can't use mouse_event() to do an absolute mouse move to any monitor other than the primary monitor on 98, but you can on 2000... MSDN recommends changing the mouse sensitivity options, moving the cursor to the upper-left corner of the primary monitor, and then doing relative move to the position you need... ick... will need to look more into straight point-to-point relative mouse moves and whether or not those would work well enough (I'm mainly worried about accidental clicks or drags or whatever if the mouse on the server gets bumped while doing work, and the click is now relative to that offset point as opposed to an absolute position that wouldn't get messed up)... regardless, I digress. Just the new executable: ftp://ftp.saurik.com/pub/vnc/MultiVNC-0.0.1.exe The source code: ftp://ftp.saurik.com/pub/vnc/MultiVNC-0.0.1.src.zip CVS access (for generating patches or tracking sources or whatever): :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/nmap Passwd: cvs // Module: vnc If people would like just diffs instead of CVS access I can provide that (will get around to it regardless, would just take longer than if you poke me, hehe). Ken Malencia, one of the two people who were interested in the patch, has been using this regularly for a while now and has claimed that it has been working fine; but I still wouldn't recommend you overwrite your existing VNC executable :). I gave it a different icon (the VNC "user in system" notification icon), so it fits nicely as MultiVNC.exe and "WinVNC (MultiMon)". Sincerely, Jay Freeman (saurik) [EMAIL PROTECTED] </quote> If anyone is _actually_ interested in this, or the possible offshoots of this: say something. If you don't it likely isn't going to get done. This is true of myself and I'm willing to bet it applies to the AT&T people. If people, in general, don't seem to consider this an important feature, but only some small "fringe" group of people who don't even have loud voices want it, it isn't going to exist. Really, I'm actually betting for the fringe case right now. Likely, hardly anyone uses multiple monitors; and the few who do don't consider it an important, lacking feature.... Sincerely, Jay Freeman (saurik) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 12:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Dual monitors in W2k vs NT4 I looked through the archives a bit and saw a number questions regarding this subject, but not any answers. I'm hoping that one exists and it just did not make it to the list. I was running a dual monitor NT4 work station with an Appian Jeronimo 2000 card. Under NT4, NT saw the dual monitors as a single (but very wide) monitor. I was able to access 100% of the desktop in this configuration. I have migrated to W2k Pro. Under W2k, the dual monitors get picked up as two video cards, each with a monitor. VNC will pick up the primary only. Is there any way to start a second instance of VNCSERVER (on a new port) that will pick up the second monitor, or to tell VNC to treat the second monitor as part of the whole desktop? Thanks for any help! -- J. Eric Josephson 978-720-2159 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send a message with the line: unsubscribe vnc-list to [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
