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Terrorfrodo
Renegade Hobbits for Mordor
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Posted - 2016.10.19 10:18:57 -
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I've been using two 24 inch monitors for a long time to run two clients. Now I bought a large 4k TV that I'm going to use as my main monitor.
I could still use a second monitor, but I'd prefer to have just the one large screen. Because of the four times larger screen real estate, I should be able to put both clients on the same screen side by side, probably in 1920x2160 resolution. So same width as before with a simple FHD monitor, but double the vertical space for chat windows, dscan etc.
However, how best to arrange the windows? The perfect solution would be to have both clients run in fixed window mode, with one of them having an offset. So they fill the whole screen without any annoying window borders. Basically like the splitscreen mode in some old multiplayer racing games. But... EVE does not have the option to define such an offset :( (why not?)
So I searched for software that creates virtual monitors, splitting one physical monitor into two logical ones. But it does not seem to exist. There are tons of applications that promise something similar, but they just create grids or help position windows on the screen, without creating two truly separated virtual monitors.
So the best way I've found so far is to use regular windowed mode and position the windows by using the Windows 10 snap feature. The result is okay, but I'd have to live with still seeing the window borders and title bars, looks ugly and wastes screen real estate.
Any better way to do this? Maybe a trick to somehow make EVE offset one of the windows?
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Demolishar
United Aggression
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Posted - 2016.10.19 10:31:47 -
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Click on the title bar and click Undecorate.
Oh wait, you're using a bad OS, never mind. |
Terrorfrodo
Renegade Hobbits for Mordor
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Posted - 2016.10.19 10:37:15 -
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You seem to refer to Linux. Sure that it works even there? There are applications on Windows that make any windowed game "borderless", and that works fine in most games. With EVE however I got blackscreens, and resizing the window also did not work. EVE apparently does not tolerate any external app setting its window size or trying to reposition it.
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Berengar Barnes
Men of Business Ltd. Keep Calm and Parley
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Posted - 2016.10.19 11:24:18 -
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You could try using an AutoIt-script:
Set the eve-client to "window-mode" (without fixed size) and move your eve-windows by using script commands.
iirc:
WinMove(0,-25,1920,2140); arguments: 0 = x-position -25 = y-position 1920 = window-width 2140 = window-height |
Terrorfrodo
Renegade Hobbits for Mordor
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Posted - 2016.10.19 12:23:46 -
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Yes thank you, I was actually just writing an AutoHotKey script very similar to this. By pressing a key I can now move the client window to a predefined position. By choosing the negative y-position, the caption bar of the window becomes invisible, achieving almost the same effect as running EVE in fixed-window mode.
By setting styles on the window it would technically be also very easy to remove the caption bar altogether, but for some reason EVE does not tolerate this. When setting any style on the client window, it starts flickering and growing uncontrollably to the right, like its contents are overflowing. So I had to stick with just repositioning the window. Still an acceptable solution.
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