How do I use two monitors under DESQview?
A304: 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
