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alcattle

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Post Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:22 am

making pretty windows

Talked with LAX on chat but I am still fuzzy (oldtimers?) I am Dual Boxing WoW on 2 monitors. They are different size and resolution right now so the slave window has poor text and such. I could live without instant swapping, I have it set to only swap when I hold down a key now.
should I?
1 set both the same in Window 7
2 set both the same in WoW
3 make adjustments in ISboxer (can i?)
4 Live with it
5 Buy a new monitor and or quit Dual Boxing
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tanker

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Post Tue Mar 01, 2011 5:56 pm

Re: making pretty windows

You also lose accurate mouse repeating when you disable instant swapping.
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Alge

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Post Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:57 pm

Re: making pretty windows

I run two monitors: one 1920x1200 and the other 1280x1024. When two-boxing I tried having both windows full screen on their respective monitors but had the same problem you describe.

To fix it I changed the size of the region on the second monitor (do this in ISBoxer, in the window layout) to be 1280x683. The 683 comes from (1280/1920)*1024, rounded to the nearest whole number. You get a smaller window on the second monitor but it has the same aspect ratio as the main monitor so fast swapping and mouse broadcasting work correctly and it looks right too.
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alcattle

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Post Wed Mar 02, 2011 4:16 am

Re: making pretty windows

Thx again, will try it out today
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alcattle

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Post Mon Mar 07, 2011 6:30 am

Re: making pretty windows

getting things closer to like I want. Set the ISboxer and the Windows 7 resolutions the same, and adjusted the IS setting as it was still too tall. Second monitor is a little fuzzy but better than before. Tried to match the ratios and it was almost the same as the Quick wizard's number. I did try a new quick setup as the layout I had was pretty wiped out.
Right now, all is working and the only way to get cleaner text is to change monitors.

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