So, I'm finding myself pretty disappointed in the way that MS has dealt with multi-monitor support. They're moving in the right direction I guess, but still not what I'm ideally looking for, meaning it's time to start looking for 3rd party alternatives (as I did with Win7).
So, my ideal setup requires essentially setting up 1 monitor as my "Desktop" monitor, and the other monitor as my "Start" monitor. The current iteration of Win8.1 essentially is that both monitors will default to either one or the other, which seems very shortsighted to me.
So what I would like is this:
1. upon boot, one monitor goes to my desktop and the other monitor goes to my start screen.
2. I don't want my desktop monitor to ever go to the start screen unless I purposefully open up the start screen with the start button.
3. Similarly, I don't want my Start screen ever to go to my desktop unless I purposefully open the desktop on it.
What 2-3 mean together is that, for example, if I open a desktop application that is on my start screen, it will be thrown over to my desktop-designated monitor rather than pulling that monitor (i.e. the "start" monitor) down to the desktop. I'd like any notifications that I receive from the Win8 apps (so, for example, my skype app or my FB app) to occur only on my "start" monitor, and keep them segregated over there. Similarly, if I close out all my applications in, for example, my "start" monitor, I want it to go back to my "start" (right now, because I have my computer set to default to my desktop, when I drag down an app to close it I get thrown back to my desktop, which is obviously not the behavior I want on the screen that should have all my tiles).
So essentially, I'd like to segregate my "desktop" and "start" monitors from each other, and have each's respective applications only occur in that place unless I force it to do otherwise (e.g. I drag a desktop application into my "start" monitor or vice versa).
I'm not sure if any or all of this is actually possible, but I figured this was the place to ask in case some type of third-party software is available to make this work.
thanks
So, my ideal setup requires essentially setting up 1 monitor as my "Desktop" monitor, and the other monitor as my "Start" monitor. The current iteration of Win8.1 essentially is that both monitors will default to either one or the other, which seems very shortsighted to me.
So what I would like is this:
1. upon boot, one monitor goes to my desktop and the other monitor goes to my start screen.
2. I don't want my desktop monitor to ever go to the start screen unless I purposefully open up the start screen with the start button.
3. Similarly, I don't want my Start screen ever to go to my desktop unless I purposefully open the desktop on it.
What 2-3 mean together is that, for example, if I open a desktop application that is on my start screen, it will be thrown over to my desktop-designated monitor rather than pulling that monitor (i.e. the "start" monitor) down to the desktop. I'd like any notifications that I receive from the Win8 apps (so, for example, my skype app or my FB app) to occur only on my "start" monitor, and keep them segregated over there. Similarly, if I close out all my applications in, for example, my "start" monitor, I want it to go back to my "start" (right now, because I have my computer set to default to my desktop, when I drag down an app to close it I get thrown back to my desktop, which is obviously not the behavior I want on the screen that should have all my tiles).
So essentially, I'd like to segregate my "desktop" and "start" monitors from each other, and have each's respective applications only occur in that place unless I force it to do otherwise (e.g. I drag a desktop application into my "start" monitor or vice versa).
I'm not sure if any or all of this is actually possible, but I figured this was the place to ask in case some type of third-party software is available to make this work.
thanks
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