/FHQ14: How do I use two monitors under DESQview?/FB



You can use two monitors only in DVC and DV386.  DVX does not support
two monitors.



DVC and DV386 will only control one of your monitors, and by default all
programs will use the monitor that DESQview controls.  There are a
number of ways to make programs start up on the ``other'' monitor. Since
you will usually want DESQview to control the color monitor (except
perhaps in the case of a CGA), the following discussion assumes that
DESQview is controlling the color monitor and not the monochrome
monitor.



First, you can use a batch file and include a ``MODE MONO'' statement to
switch the program to the monochrome monitor.  Second, you can use the
``initial mode'' field to specify the monitor on which the program will
start (however, this setting is ignored unless you also set ``writes
directly to screen'' to Y and ``virtualize'' to N).  By setting the
initial mode to 7, you force the program to use the monochrome monitor
until it explicitly switches monitors.  Note that DESQview tends to stop
updating the monochrome screen while the program is in the background if
the program ever switches to the color display (including starting on
the color display with the first method above).



The initial mode can also be set to 21 or 22 for Hercules Graphics mode.
These modes only allow one page of mono graphics /JB(see Q13)/q7.txt/.  Mode 21 is
Page 0 at address B000h, and Mode 22 is Page 1 at address B800h.  Hence,
Mode 22 is not available with two monitors (it conflicts with color
video).