[Thunderbird]

Greetings everybody,

I've volunteered to be a DJ at a small dance for a social club tomorrow. I know nothing about being a DJ, but since I have a Powerbook, and all the Pee Cee guys were impressed with iTunes, I got drafted.

I want to set up a projector to display iTunes visualizer on a wall during the dance. I hooked it up with the VGA adaptor, and it works great, but when I turn the visualizer on, the main monitor goes black. I want to be able to keep iTunes on my Powerbook screen so I can change the music around during the dance.

Is there a way to use the projector for the visualizer, and at the same time use the Powerbook display for the main iTunes window?

[ragingcao]

Press F7
This toggles your screen display on your PB, projector, or both.

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I don't think that solves his problem - he wants to run the iTunes interface on his LCD, but throw the visualizer on the projector.

I've tried to do something similar myself (play a fullscreen game on the external, keep desktop running on LCD) and couldn't figure it out either.

[Thunderbird]

Originally posted by ragingcao:
Press F7
This toggles your screen display on your PB, projector, or both.

Thanks for the tip, ragingcao. I didn't know about the F7 trick. It's useful, but unfortunately, it didn't solve my problem. It just moves the visuals to the Powerbook screen, and makes the projector go blank.

[tooki]

iTunes doesn't do what you want. (It's a feature I'd also like to see.)

The closest workaround is to take the whole library, drop it into a non-smart playlist, and then double-click that playlist (to make it launch in a separate window). Then you can turn off full-screen mode and start the visualizer in the main iTunes window, and try and resize it to fill the projector (perhaps you can mask it off with some black windows or something).

tooki

[tooki]

P.S. iTunes' full-screen mode always displays on the display with the menu bar; you can move the menu bar in the Displays preference pane.

tooki