XP + Deskscapes 3 + Dual Monitors

Am I asking too much?

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Hi, Open Deskscapes 3 and it is locked into one of my monitors, can't drag it to the other one. This is unlike any other app I have.

Only applies a dream to this one monitor.

Those dreams which offer stretch over monitors option have the option greyed out.

When I 'Disable Deskscapes' it does not restore my own dual monitor background image correctly, it puts a copy on each monitor. The correct display option to restore for me would be 'Tiled' not 'stretch'.

Ian

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The UI cannot move between monitors because it is rendering D3D in the preview and on Windows XP supporting multiple monitors in a window which may span monitors is messy.  If we didn't lock it to the primary display the cpu would hit 100% when the window went outside of the primary screen.  On more modern OSes this is not a problem and the window can be moved between screens.

Only certain dreams support multiple monitors on XP for a similar reason.  The stretch over monitor options are only supported by Vista / 7.

The included snow dream does support multiple monitors as do the dreams on Wincustomize developed by myself.