[TextMate] Working with multiple screens

Scott Barron scott at elitists.net
Thu Oct 7 19:59:44 UTC 2004


On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:57:32PM +0300, Jarkko Laine wrote:
> 
> On 7.10.2004, at 22:42, Scott Barron wrote:
> >
> >Hmm, I use dual head on my ibook and if I pull the monitor plug out
> >textmate does come back to the LCD screen though it's size is a little
> >wonky.  It looks like it does try to resize but that perhaps it's not
> >taking the size of the drawer into account.  It's not positioned
> >perfectly zoomed, as it was on the monitor screen (which is of a higher
> >resolution than the LCD).  That's my experience anyway.
> 
> Scott,
> 
> Are you talking about mirroring the screen or extending it to the 
> bigger screen? As far as I remember iBook was only able to mirror the 
> screen, not to extend it.

haHA by "default", you are right.  Apple merely crippled that function
in some of the ibooks.  However, it can be gotten around on some ibooks
(I have a 1.2GHz G4) and you can indeed extend the screen.  It's very
nice indeed.

-Scott



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