[_nmk]

Hi all,

I am reposting this from the software forum.

I have a 12" G4 iBook which I have patched to support screen spanning in addition to mirroring.

I often find myself wanting to have a movie playing fullscreen on my external 19" screen and still be able to have a browser or text editor open on the iBook screen.

The trouble is that to do that I have to set the external monitor to be the primary one, so that VLC or MPlayer will display a movie fullscreen on it. If it is a secondary monitor they go to fullscreen on the iBook screen.

That way I am loosing the Dock and the menubar - not very good.

Any ideas how I could bring fullscreen video on an external monitor which is hooked up as a secondary display?

Many thanks in advance,
_nmk

[SupahCoolX]

You could always just put the window playing the movie on the second screen. Then drag the bottom right corner of that window (even though the little lines don't appear in the corner as on normal windows, you can still resize it) to make it fill the screen without actually being in "full screen" mode.