Re: [OT] Some clever multi monitor help please!!

["noel_pilot" <HA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi J,
Yes we had however we were really trying to do this without extra
hardware per display, cost, support requirement etc down to a minimum,
think ultramon is going to do the job nicely and we'll be able to use
one old P3 900 to do all three screens!

cheers for the reccomendation ho yin,

noel

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "John Andrews" <groups@...> wrote:
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> Noel
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> Thought of using a thin client?
> Not top heavy and they can be configured to go direct to a URL on
switch on.
>
> J
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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of
> noel_pilot
> Sent: 12 April 2006 11:49
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] Some clever multi monitor help please!!
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> Hey all,
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> Got a funny one that I could use some help with,
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> We have a new development at work that is about to rollout into our
aircraft
> hangars.  Basically we have three aircraft in a hangar at one time
and there
> is to be one 17" tft monitor per aircraft.  These are mounted
approximately
> 4 feet apart at the front of the hangar.
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> The monitors need to display an IE web page with a specific bay URL
i.e.
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> www.xxxxx.com/bay1
> www.xxxxx.com/bay2
> www.xxxxx.com/bay3
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> We would like to drive all 3 monitors from one pc and have the pc
somehow
> automatically position each IE window on the correct screen.
> Ideally this would work following a restart with no user interaction
at all.
>
> I know this is possible if I use three different browsers as the
Matrox
> graphics driver software allows profiles to be set for different
> applications, e.g. put Firefox on monitor 1, IE on monitor 2 and
Opera on
> monitor 3.
>
> Unfortunately my IT bods aren't having any of this use three different
> browsers idea so we need to try and find another solution that doesn't
> involve the users manually positioning each screen!
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> So....I'm turning to arguably the UK's if not the worlds finest
> technowizadry resource!!...UKHA_D!
>
> Any ideas anyone?!!  Ideally not going down the roads of VMware!
> And we desperately want to avoid one pc per screen!
>
> Many Thanks in advance
>
> Noel
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