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Gareth 2003-03-02 00:03
When you select different wallpaper for each monitor Ultramon reads the two (or more) picture files and creates a single bitmap (.bmp) file with the collection of pictures laid out in it. Windows then displays that across all the monitors with the effect appearing to be different wallpaper on each. It's a cunning way of doing it and works nicely but there is a drawback. Because UltraMon saves this composite wallpaper file as a bitmap it can be very large - two jpegs that were 260k become a bitmap that is 7.5Mb. The way I understand it is that instantly takes 7.5Mb of RAM. Would it be possible to save the file as a jpeg instead so it is smaller? Would that actually take up less RAM or does Windows decompress it to a bitmap before displaying it anyway?
Smart Taskbar
Would it be possible to show a Start bar and the clock on the secondary Task bars?
Cheers,
Gareth
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Christian Studer 2003-03-02 02:00
Thanks for your suggestions.
If you select a JPEG as the desktop background in Display Properties, Windows will actually create a bitmap for it, on my XP system in C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft.
You can safely delete any bitmaps in the UltraMon wallpaper directories to save disk space, UltraMon will recreate them if necessary.
Start menu and clock on the UltraMon taskbars is being considered for a future release.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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daniel 2003-03-04 16:15
just in relation to wallpapers, would be good to choose what screens a spanned wallpaper will span, as in a setup like mine, with 3 screens in a L shape, spanning a picture means i completely lose the top right side, as ultramon is spanning as if I have 4 screens in a square, if that makes sense.
my setup is like this
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ultramon spans for 4 screens like this
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I dont have a top right screen at all.
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Christian Studer 2003-03-05 11:20
This is something I'm going to look into for a future release, for example with an option which ensures that the spanned wallpaper is always fully visible.
Of course you would then have only the background on the top monitor.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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daniel 2003-03-07 07:24
yeah, only way i can think of to fix this problem would be if it was a option in ultramon for it to automatically split the wallpaper into separate images (eg x2 halves, or thirds)and display the separate images on each screen so it would still maintain the spanned wallpaper effect on the monitors desired.
At the moment, this is what I am doing manually myself, grabbing a panorama shot, and splitting it down the middle, saving the files as panoramaleft, panoramaright for instance, and using the "different image for each monitor" option to span the bottom x2 screens, and still leave myself a background for the top screen.
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