Displaying a program on 2 screens at the same time

Brian Cluff brian at snaptek.com
Sat Feb 16 12:38:18 MST 2019


For those of you that saw my Hugin presentation at last Thursday's 
meeting you would have noticed that I had some difficulty switching back 
and forth between the presentation and doing a demo of the software.

The reason for this is that I was running Libreoffice Impress in dual 
monitor mode so that I can see my notes and the next slide. I could 
solve the problem by just mirroring the display, but that causes 
problems by eliminating my notes and other resources. There is also the 
possibility of using a tablet to control the presentation, but that 
might not be reliable at SCaLE when I do the presentation again.

So what I need is a way to display a program on both monitors at the 
same time without having to mirror the display.

I think I might have a workable solution by abusing the kmag program and 
setting it's magnification to 1:1, but I wonder if there is a better or 
more purpose built solution to accomplish the same thing.  If there is, 
great, I'd love to hear about it, if there isn't then this message can 
serve as a possible solution for others to increase the quality of their 
presentations.

Brian Cluff




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