Add additional monitor via USB

Question

Hi all,
I have recently bought the Matrox Dualhead2Go to connect two additional monitors to my MBP. The device works well and the performance is excellent and easy to set up, however I didn't realise that it would mean the mac see's both my monitors as one big display (in my case 3360x1050). This means that things like dialog boxes popup in the middle of the displays (between the bezels). The solution is fine but it's not quite ideal.
I was wondering if there is a solution out there to allow me to add an additional display that is treated as a seperate display using something like USB, so I could have one monitor plugged into thunderbolt and another monitor plugged via USB which will give me 2x 1680x1050 instead of just 1x 3360x1050.
There's some usb to vga/dvi adapters available but wanted to find out if this will work or if there are any recommendations?
Thanks in advance,
Scott.

Answer 1

Hi Kelly,
Apologies for the delayed response.
Unfortunately I did not find a real solution to deal with the dialogue boxes, however I do use a great Mac program called Moom (http://manytricks.com/moom) which has a lot of helpful features for managing and resizing/maximising windows, etc.
One of the features I use is the ability to nudge windows left or right by a specified amount of pixels and bind it to a button on my mouse.
I have it set up so one of my mouse buttons nudges the active window left and another button to nudge the window right. All this is really doing is avoiding having to continuously click and drag dialogue boxes when they appear in the centre of the screen and instead is just a mouse button press away.
Not a very elegant solution, but it does reduce my mouse mileage by not having to drag stuff around all the time.
Hope this helps.