Re: Projector, Debian, OS X, Windows, HDMI
On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 09:11:51 +0000
Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 03:54:10 -0500
> German <gentgerman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi list,
> >
> > First of all good news. I recently bought not expensive LCD
> > projector. So I hooked it up to my computer's HDMI output, plugged
> > the other end of HDMI cable to projector and voila, all of the
> > context of my monitor was mirrored on the wall. All programs,
> > icons, etc.. I opened up movie player and turned on cartoon and
> > enjoyed it on the screen. This set up running Debian 8.0.
> >
> >
> > Then I tried it to connect to Mac Book Air ( OS X) with the help of
> > mini display port to HDMI cable. For a while I got computer's
> > wallpaper on the wall ( but not the icons and other stuff which is
> > on Mac's display) and connection was lost ( projector displayed "no
> > input" icon. If this is not faulty mini display to HDMI cord, what
> > might me a problem?
> >
> >
> > The third time, Windows machine was connected to projector. By
> > HDMI-HDMI cable. Again, only wallpaper of computer was projected on
> > the wall. No browser and any other programs and icons which are
> > present on the screen of Windows machine.
> >
> >
> > Can anyone clue me in what happens? Does other OS's need to be
> > specifically adjust setting? What are the setting there might be?
> > Anyway, please share your thoughts. Thank you
> >
>
> Windows needs to know what you want to do with the second monitor: do
> you want it to be an extension of the first, giving you more desktop,
> or do you want it to be a copy, e.g. to run a projector while you
> still work from the laptop screen. It also wants to know whether you
> want a taskbar on one monitor or both, and which is the primary
> screen.
>
> So what you're seeing on Windows is the default setting: you should
> find that if you move the mouse pointer off the edge of the main
> screen, it appears on the projector screen, though you'll have to
> experiment to find which edge to move from.
>
> You need to right-click on an empty area of the desktop and I'm not
> sure where you go from there, but explore the menu until you find the
> multiple monitors setup.
>
> I'd guess that Macs would have similar features, that's probably where
> MS copied theirs from, and almost certainly where the Linux randr
> multiple monitor setup came from as well.
>
Thank you, i'll try to figure this out
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