Going multi-headed
Nov. 7th, 2011 08:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylHaving transferred my mini up to Coventry, I've finally set up my old monitor to act as a secondary display on my iMac. I may not really need the screen real estate, but it beats having the thing sat around doing nothing and it now means that I have enough monitor space to use two massive photos of Albi Cathedral as my backdrop instead of just one.
The process was fairly painless, ignoring the fact that I initially bought the wrong sort of exorbitantly expensive converter and had to return to the Apple Store in ignominy to exchange it for the right one. The iMac picked up the other screen without any trouble and after I tweaked the arrangement settings, everything just worked. I was also pleasantly surprised to find that most video applications — quicktime, the DVD player etc — automatically blank the secondary monitor when running in full screen mode to prevent distractions.
My only trivial grip? That my older monitor doesn't step down its brightness like the iMac monitor when the system has been idle for more than a few minutes...
The process was fairly painless, ignoring the fact that I initially bought the wrong sort of exorbitantly expensive converter and had to return to the Apple Store in ignominy to exchange it for the right one. The iMac picked up the other screen without any trouble and after I tweaked the arrangement settings, everything just worked. I was also pleasantly surprised to find that most video applications — quicktime, the DVD player etc — automatically blank the secondary monitor when running in full screen mode to prevent distractions.
My only trivial grip? That my older monitor doesn't step down its brightness like the iMac monitor when the system has been idle for more than a few minutes...
