Annoying problem with two monitors

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Smurfy
Jan 20, 2004
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While at the office I generally use photoshop on a ported laptop with a spare monitor (15.4" LCD and 20" CRT side by side, makes for nice real estate).

Unfortunately, if I close any PS menus on the CRT screen instead of moving them to the laptop screen before closing, I can’t see them when I am using the lap top alone.

This can be very annoying when the menu you need is invisible.

They are fully functional, but I can not alway use the tab button to psychically tab to the right action field.

Are there any ways to lock menus in PS to one area of srcreen to avoid this problem?

BTW, setting the laptops vid card to single monitor mode does not help in the slightest.

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Anonymoose
Jan 20, 2004
"Kaner Flat" wrote in
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While at the office I generally use photoshop on a ported laptop with a spare monitor (15.4" LCD and 20" CRT side by side, makes for nice real estate).

Unfortunately, if I close any PS menus on the CRT screen instead of moving them to the laptop screen before closing, I can’t see them when I am using the lap top alone.

This can be very annoying when the menu you need is invisible.
They are fully functional, but I can not alway use the tab button to psychically tab to the right action field.

Are there any ways to lock menus in PS to one area of srcreen to avoid this problem?

Don’t know, but you can check the value of HKEY_CURRENT_USER->Software-> Adobe->Photoshop->7.0->AppWindowPosition and set it by hand to move it to where you want the window to appear. I believe the 4 numbers are X,Y,Width,Height and X is the origin of the #1 monitor (I have 2 monitors, if I move photoshop to the #2 monitor, which is to the left of #1, the X value is negative.)
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nomail
Jan 20, 2004
Kaner Flat wrote:

While at the office I generally use photoshop on a ported laptop with a spare monitor (15.4" LCD and 20" CRT side by side, makes for nice real estate).

Unfortunately, if I close any PS menus on the CRT screen instead of moving them to the laptop screen before closing, I can’t see them when I am using the lap top alone.

This can be very annoying when the menu you need is invisible.
They are fully functional, but I can not alway use the tab button to psychically tab to the right action field.

Are there any ways to lock menus in PS to one area of srcreen to avoid this problem?

BTW, setting the laptops vid card to single monitor mode does not help in the slightest.

You do not mention which version of Photoshop you use, but if you use version 7 or higher, this problem is very easy to solve. From version 7, Photoshop has the ability to save "Workspaces". You can set up two workspaces, one with the extra monitor and one without. From now on, it’s a matter of choosing the workspace from the Windows menu.


Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl/
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Smurfy
Jan 21, 2004
"Johan W. Elzenga" wrote in message
Kaner Flat wrote:

You do not mention which version of Photoshop you use, but if you use version 7 or higher, this problem is very easy to solve. From version 7, Photoshop has the ability to save "Workspaces". You can set up two workspaces, one with the extra monitor and one without. From now on, it’s a matter of choosing the workspace from the Windows menu.

Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl/

Thanks… that worked great…

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