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Just bought myself a 34" Ultra QWHD Samsung monitor. I want to split the screen and believe there is software out there to do it.
Anyone aware of one, preferably free.
Do you want it configured two appear as two separate monitors with a 50/50 or 60/40 split for example, or do you just want to be able to have zones that windows snap to?
I've got an LG widescreen monitor and would recommend the second option, as it still allows you to use the full screen if you need to. I use Microsoft Powertoys and the fancy zone functionality to do this. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzones
If you do want it to appear to windows as two separate monitors I expect Samsung will have a utility/driver to do it. I know my LG monitor did, but from LG obviously.
Windows key and the left / right arrows.
Cougar you are a genius that works on the cinnamon desktop too 🙂
Microsoft's free PowerToys includes FancyZones which lets you create different 'snapping' areas, so a step up from the basic Windows facility Cougar mentions.
Do you want it configured two appear as two separate monitors with a 50/50
exactly this!
How does this work with teams when you share a screen? Do the others on your call get a very wide letterbox type view, or does teams handle it ok?
You can share an app instead of the whole screen.
Windows key and the left / right arrows.
Not for the first time, I want to have your children
Lots of these monitors can also do "picture by picture" - ie display two separate inputs at once, side by side. You could run two cables, your PC thinks it's two monitors, and the monitor stitches them back together. Then you have something that works exactly like a traditional dual screen setup - full screen something like youtube and it'll be full screen just on that half.
I looked for various ways to do a software split that would work in teams/zoom for presenting in powerpoint while having presenter view etc like a traditional dual screen and couldn't find any that worked well.
Native win10 aero snap and fancyzones, displayfusion, etc can work well if you're more interested in getting windows in the right place consistently.
presenting in powerpoint while having presenter view etc like a traditional dual screen and couldn’t find any that worked well.
Getting off topic here, but spend £10 on a cheap USB HDMI grabber from ebay/amazon.
Then connect it to video out and USB in to your laptop. Your laptop thinks it has a second screen, but the screen is actually a window on the laptop (use e.g. VLC, windows photo app, OBS, whatever - the grabber appears to the OS Like another camera). Then share this window, which behaves exactly like a connector projector.
Also handy for other stuff, e.g. I present like this but using an iPad to drive the presentation through the display output. It appears as a camera, so you can use it instead of your camera if you're in something that doesn't screen share video well, or you can use an app like Airmix Solo (free, iOS) to use your phone camera as a webcam (so you can e.g. point it at some paper/a whiteboard as a document camera to share).
Ah, good tip - I'll have to try out one of those. My usual fallback is an ipad and duet display to be a second monitor.
Right now this way works OK if I'm just on my laptop with a single screen - https://www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/using-powerpoint-presenter-view-with-1-screen-in-teams-on-windows/ . All I really want though is for PP to have a mode where you get the presenter view and a "output window" (not fullscreen) that I can share. You can get all those individually but not together.
Else the native Teams powerpoint (ie you upload the deck into the meeting) is getting really good - you can see notes, annotate, etc. Only thing holding me back from that is that you don't get annotations in the recording and I like to draw on screen to emphasise stuff as I go.
Not for the first time, I want to have your children
You're welcome to them.
There's a couple more things you can do with this shortcut. If you have multiple monitors then repeated taps will move to the edge of the screen then hop across to the next one. Up and down will maximize / restore / minimise windows.
+1 DisplayFusion
I use that to configure my multiple displays. Works well.