extended desktops with nvidia cards Thread last updated on 2003-09-17 12:31:47

Posted by member 52636 on 2003-09-17 08:45:46

I have always used litestep, always preffered it over any other shell. But recently im having a small problem... For over a year now ive really put up with it and never had the time to ask a question about it. Ever since i started using video cards with the S-OUT option and using it to watch movies from my pc onto my television with and playing some directx game on it, my litestep themes dont seem to work well. Not technically they work fine and everything is perfect but when I have my option to extend my monitor to the TV most of the modules move to the side of the TV, a problem that doesnt happen with the windows menu explorer bar unless you specify the option in the settings to extend it onto the TV. When i turn the setting off, all the themes I have work perfect but I dont want to keep going into my display settings to turn it on or off when i decide to watch a movie ive downloaded or to play agame through the TV. .... So my question to you all is... how do i fix it?!

Posted by member 1 on 2003-09-17 09:05:41 link

what you need to do is edit your theme to only use X settings greater than 0. So for example SystrayX -25 will cause your issue so you may need to change it to SystrayX 999.

Posted by member 7223 on 2003-09-17 11:43:30 link

DeViLbOi: that's why it could be usefull to use "real negative coords"

Posted by member 1783 on 2003-09-17 11:53:33 link

maybe try cloning ur desktop instead of extending it. that can be done via advanced diplay properties on the nvidia tab ;)

Posted by member 1 on 2003-09-17 12:31:47 link

real negotives wouldn't be limited to a dual desktop like that. when the desktop area is generated it is done Desktop1+Desktop2. Now if you could specify a module to be -5 from Desktop1 instead of 2 it would work.