Challenging? dual screen set-up

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I am a (struggling!) professional photographer and I have recognised the
need to replace my PC. One of the requirements I have come up with is to
have a two screen environment where I can have one screen 'client-facing' on
which they only see full-screen slideshows or individual images, controlled
from applications run from the other monitor. (When slideshows or single
images are not being presented, it should default to blank, a controlled
wallpaper or a standard slideshow.) So, for example, I might want to run a
slideshow from - for example - ACDSee on the 'control' monitor and for the
card management to know that full-screen slideshows are to go to the client
screen. Ideally, the control monitor would have a window showing what is on
the client monitor at any one time. I don't want the client to see *any*
Windows objects: task bar, title bar, etc.. If it makes any difference I
would like the screens to be flat panels as I wish to use this set-up in the
field.

Does anyone know if this can be achieved with ATi cards and software and
how?

Thanks,
pearsos
 
pearsos said:
I am a (struggling!) professional photographer and I have recognised the
need to replace my PC. One of the requirements I have come up with is to
have a two screen environment where I can have one screen 'client-facing'
on which they only see full-screen slideshows or individual images,
controlled from applications run from the other monitor. (When
slideshows or single images are not being presented, it should default to
blank, a controlled wallpaper or a standard slideshow.) So, for example,
I might want to run a slideshow from - for example - ACDSee on the
'control' monitor and for the card management to know that full-screen
slideshows are to go to the client screen. Ideally, the control monitor
would have a window showing what is on the client monitor at any one
time. I don't want the client to see *any* Windows objects: task bar,
title bar, etc.. If it makes any difference I would like the screens to
be flat panels as I wish to use this set-up in the field.

Does anyone know if this can be achieved with ATi cards and software and
how?
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Seems to me you could pretty much do that by just extending the desktop and
running the client slideshow thing full screen on the second display... the
difficulty would be seeing the other desktop small, it's not impossible, I
don't know whether it has been done.

Ben
 
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