I am not after the myriad of virtual desktop/window manager programs that are available. This virtual video driver would allow you to slice & dice your physical monitor into as many virtual monitors as you want.ĭoes anybody know if such software exists? If not, are there any budding Windows display driver guru's out there willing to take up the challenge? Programs like WinSplit Revolution and UltraMon would still work. The software could even support a virtual bezel to emphasise what is happening, or you could opt for seamless mode. Control Panel would see your single physical monitor as two or more virtual monitors. What would be really nice is a video driver that sits on top of the existing driver, but allows a single monitor to be virtualised into multiple monitors.
You can't lock a window into a specific section of the screen. Even with WinSplit Revolution, when you maximise a window it will take up the whole screen.
Programs like WinSplit Revolution will help to organise your windows, but this is really just addressing the symptom, not the problem. If you maximize an editor on a wide-screen monitor the right-hand side of the window will be a sea of white. If you are writing code you are generally working on the left-hand side of the window. Wide screen monitors are fantastic, but it is hard to use all the space efficiently. I suggest that having a single large monitor with all the benefits of multiple smaller monitors would be a better solution. There are exceptions to this (WinDiff, Excel), but this is generally the case.
Your focus may flip from one monitor to the other, but at any point in time you are usually focusing on only one monitor. When you use multiple monnitors, one of them becomes your primary monitor of focus. The problem is much worse with different monitors - VMWare's multi monitor feature won't even work with monitors of differnt resolutions. And of course the bezel always gets in the way. You always end up with the monitors at slight funny angles. You can never seem to line them up "just right". I won't go into all the reasons for their goodness just take it as a given. Like most developers I have grown to love dual monitors.
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