Support for multiple screens

[ddahlstrom]

I'd like to be able to keep the UI on one screen with the previews on a second.

[Carlos Milovic]

You are able to change the explorer views into floating windows and move them to another screen. I use the console that way. Also, you can move there any process window.

Most of the times is not a good idea to have floating images against any background (your desktop background) because human perception is very dependant of the surrounding information. This is why the background of PI's workspace is neutral gray.

[ddahlstrom]

I'm aware of this.  I mean having the full UI on one screen (just as it exists today), but with the option to display a selected preview on another screen.  If you've seen Lightroom, you'll know what I mean.

[Carlos Milovic]

You may use the real time preview window for that

[cfranks]

Under Windows, I just drag my UI to cover 2 of my 3 screens.  It works very well but my screens are only 1920 x 1200 and I have no experience with how higher resolution screens may handle that.
Charles

[Niall Saunders]

Running Windows, with three monitors (28", centre, landscape mode; two 19", each side, portrait mode) allows me to have the console on the LHS screen, multiple process panes on the RHS (especially common ones, Like Histogram, etc.).

This then frees up all of the real estate on the main monitor for views and previews. If I could be bothered, I would add another 28" monitor 'above centre' to allow full size previews, etc (and, whilst I am at it, another two at the side of that one - for email and the PI Forum !!!).

One thing that I have found is that it becomes all too easy to succumb to neck or eye strain as you constantly have to move between screens to see what is actually going on. Worse still, I find that I can never find the mouse pointer - it is always hiding on a screen that I am not looking at!

Hope this helps.

[msmythers]

Niall

You need a program that would allow a hot key combo to return the mouse to a set position on one of your monitors. Now wouldn't that be a nice wish list item for those with multiple monitors.


Mike

[ddahlstrom]

You may use the real time preview window for that

I'm not aware of a way to transfer the real time preview window to another screen. I am aware of the ability to stretch the main container window of pixInsight across multiple screens so that you can drag windows (like the real time preview) to other screens; but this isn't the kind of native multi-screen support I'm talking about.  It kind-of works, but requires futzing and doesn't work well when the screens are of different sizes and resolutions.   What would be nice is an icon on the frame of the preview window that would immediately transfer it, fully maximized, to any selected screen.

[ddahlstrom]

Niall

You need a program that would allow a hot key combo to return the mouse to a set position on one of your monitors. Now wouldn't that be a nice wish list item for those with multiple monitors.

Mike

A simple AutoHotKey (AHK) script will do this

;Ctrl-Alt-1 moves cursor to middle of screen 1
;Ctrl-Alt-2 moves cursor to middle of screen 2

CoordMode, Mouse, Screen

^!1::
  ;Center screen monitor 1 (1920x1080)
  MouseMove, 960, 540
return

^!2::
  ;Center screen monitor 2 (1920x1280)
  MouseMove, 2880, 640
return

[cfranks]

Niall

You need a program that would allow a hot key combo to return the mouse to a set position on one of your monitors. Now wouldn't that be a nice wish list item for those with multiple monitors.


Mike

I set my mouse cursor to the largest black one that Windows provides.  Peripheral vision finds it when I waggle the mouse!