Dual display, secondary display selection

**ticklemedaly** · January 17th, 2009, 11:09 PM

New to this whole thing, but would really like to have dual display support, along with having the secondary one selectable with full screen. Kinda like VLC media player. You can select the secondary display to have fullscreen, while using the primary for other items. Just got my 50" LG Plasma connected to my 20" iMac for a secondary display so I can watch all my movies with hopes of eliminating cable bill, but can't figure out how to get boxee to work in this way. Any insites or future support?

RyRy

**PHermas** · January 17th, 2009, 11:57 PM

Originally Posted by ticklemedaly

New to this whole thing, but would really like to have dual display support, along with having the secondary one selectable with full screen. Kinda like VLC media player. You can select the secondary display to have fullscreen, while using the primary for other items. Just got my 50" LG Plasma connected to my 20" iMac for a secondary display so I can watch all my movies with hopes of eliminating cable bill, but can't figure out how to get boxee to work in this way. Any insites or future support?

RyRy

boxee already supports this, settings>appearance>screen then select the full screen #2

**ticklemedaly** · January 18th, 2009, 09:05 AM

thanks for the quick reply. I tried to play around with that setting and it doesn't seam to work. every time i selected a different setting, including the fullscreen for display #2, it shows up on my primary display, and is extremely glitchy. Is there another setting I need to change? It works just fine with all other objects within Leopard. Any ideas?

RyRy

**grrrolf** · January 18th, 2009, 12:51 PM

I have got the same problem. When configured using full screen on display #2, it's still on the main screen (#1) but it's not windowed and has the dimensions of the secondary display.

**PHermas** · January 18th, 2009, 01:20 PM

after you select the full screen #2, use the test calibration (i'm pretty sure that's what it says can't check right now) it's right below the resolution. boxee will then check the resolution and you can select whether to keep it or not.

**ticklemedaly** · January 18th, 2009, 02:21 PM

doing the test calibration is what shows the glitched screen. i can then select either to keep or cancel.

**grrrolf** · January 18th, 2009, 02:23 PM

It seems that a restart of Boxee will send it to the correct screen.
But, when I press / to exit full screen and again to enter full screen, it stays on screen #1 instead of going to screen #2.

**ticklemedaly** · January 18th, 2009, 02:50 PM

tried to do that. set the setting to fullscreen display #2, went all glitchy when test calibration selected. hit ok, did an exit from main screen. restarted and still appeared on my primary screen, all glitchy. very frustrating

RyRy

**luka** · January 18th, 2009, 05:38 PM

works perfectly here....

main screen 17 inch iiyama,

boxee sec. screen 1080p TV..

starts auto in 1080p on second screen

2 DVI ports. hackint0sch.

**PHermas** · January 19th, 2009, 12:44 PM

Originally Posted by ticklemedaly

tried to do that. set the setting to fullscreen display #2, went all glitchy when test calibration selected. hit ok, did an exit from main screen. restarted and still appeared on my primary screen, all glitchy. very frustrating

RyRy

are you using the latest version? 0.9.7.4825
to check settings>general