hi,

hmmm....this may work. if i set the console to be output 1 (or "a" they call
it),
and i can force pop-ups to go to #1, then it should all look pretty clean.
i can drag projectable items (vic, vnc) to the projector displays #2 and #3.
if i keep the menu bar horizontal, it still spans all the displays.

the only major problem i see is with powerpoint. if ppt goes full screen, then
it's
going to span all the displays. however, it seems that the java client used with
dppt can specify the size and location of the displayed full-screen image. if
that works, then i'm home free. 

i'll try it and let you know.

thanks,

-gurcharan
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Gurcharan S. Khanna, Associate Director
Research Computing, Dartmouth College
gkhanna@dartmouth.edu
office: 603-646-1644
http://research.dartmouth.edu/
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gkhanna
PS i'm running XP on this PIG

--- Matthew Wolf wrote:
When I need the full real estate, I put it into the triple mode, where 
the 3rd output drives the left-most projector, #1 drives the right 
projector, and #2 drives the console.  (this may sound 
counter-intuitive, but it works with our room layout)

In the Matrox powerdesktop setup utility you can force all popup windows 
to go to one particular screen -- here I send them all to #2 (console). 
  It plays a bit of havoc if you set vic to automatically place new 
video streams, because they all only show up on the console.

The icon issue is a pain -- Best I've ever been able to do is just drag 
them (and the task bar) over to the far right of the screen.  I suppose 
going up to XP would help, since you could get rid of the icons 
altogether and just run everything from the taskbar.  I've never 
actually tried this, though.
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