Laptop as second display

I currently have a imac g5 I want to get a second display for use when using final cut pro..... I was wondering if it would be possible for a apple laptop to serve this function.... since i could use it for so much more than just buying a cinema display

Ok, so how about the reverse....I have an macbook (intel) and want to use my 20" imac's monitor. Reason, adobe's Illustrator CS2 trial will not load on my imac. Tried all the suggusts gave up. It will on the macbook (?) I'm taking classes and need a bigger screen to really be affective doing my homework.
So can I hook my macbook to my imac's Screen, shut my macbook's lid and work?

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Using laptop as second display

I was wondering if I can use my laptop as a second display in conjuction with my iMac i3 21.5 3.06.
The laptop I would like to use is a acer aspire 5570z.
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Using a PC laptop as a second display?

Can anyone tell me a way of connecting up an iMac to a PC laptop so that the laptop acts as a second display? I'm running audio software and need to switch between edit windows all the time. I know you can get mini DVI to RGA adaptors, but im not sure if it'll work?!
iMac Intel 2.33GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Yeah, it works fine. It's just that there is two main windows I have to use, and having the laptop as a second display would mean I could save time switching between them instead of messing about on one screen.

Can i use my imac as second display to use a laptop of dell

can i use my imac as second display to use a laptop of dell

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Laptop hang when I use second display

Hallo
I have problem with my Lenovo W510 (4319-66G). When I don't use my laptop for a while, it hang. This problem is only when I connect by VGA second display. I restored system and I installed all updates (windows and lenovo), I have still this same problem. I think that the system hang when laptop try to go standby. Could me someone help.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Download the latest Nvidia driver , hope this solve your problems.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook-win7-winvista-64bit-280.26-whql-driver.html
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Peter
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I would welcome T520 or W520 users to try this sound optimization:
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/W-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/W520-Sound-Enhancement-Thread/m-p/451401#M1551...

My Mac Pro Desk Top computer no longer can "see" my second display??

I've tried reversing the connections on the back of the MacPro but it still doesn't "see" the second display. I've had these two displays hooked up for years with no problems. I recently upgraded to Mountain Lion and I just had the MacPro in the Apple Store for a "One To One" transfer of data to my new MacBook Pro laptop. When I brought it back home it still worked fine. I then was cleaning up some stuff and I know I went into my "Users and Groups" panel in System Preferences and I did remove some items from the "Login Items" list that open automatically so maybe that is the problem?? I know the second display is getting power and recognizes it's connection to the compuiter because when I disconnect it, it says, "no signal" and when I reconnect it, it just goes to sleep. Advice appreciated.
Saratoga Lefty

Some of the graphics cards that had two DVI connectors had one Dual-Link (suitable for all resolutions including wider than 1920 wide) and one Single-Link (suitable for resolutions up to 1920, but not wider). This does not appear to be your problem, since both are less than 1920 wide.
The "Drivers" business is a complete Red Herring (Not Applicable), as the Mac does not use Drivers for displays -- it uses a unified driver for the Display CARD, and customizes it based on the capabilities reported by the Display when connected. In order to get this to work, the display must correctly self-identify.
To verify that the display is correctly detected, look in:
About This Mac > ( More Info ) > Graphics and Displays ...
... a correctly self-identified display shows its Name and its maximum resolution. be skeptical, this information does not update when you plug/unplug the display, and you have to close and re-open this window (or possibly the entire program) to get the information to refresh after a change.
If either display provides a USB cord, it must be plugged in to complete the display connection and provide display ID and control (this is much more common with Apple displays that third-party displays).
Is there any evidence of trauma to the display connectors or cables? Any bent pins on the connectors?

Envy M6 (c2l95ua#ABL) - Windows 8 - Turn on second display (TV over HDMI) as computer wakes

I want my TV (used as a second display over HDMI) to turn on automatically as the laptop turns on or resumes from sleep/hibernation. (As does a monitor on a desktop PC or the built-in screen on a laptop)
CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) is supposed to allow to turn on TV over HDMI.
The television is CEC compatible and has CEC option turned on. Theres also an option called "Allow CEC compatible devices to turn on television", which is turned on.
Can this laptop turn on a TV through HDMI, with or without CEC?
How?
Thanks a lot.

Thanks for the reply.
Is the T.V. entering standby or powering off after a certain amount of time?
The TV is in what the manufacturer calls standby-mode.
http://www.insigniaproducts.com/products/televisions/NS-39E340A13.html
What model is the T.V.?
http://www.insigniaproducts.com/products/televisions/NS-39E340A13.html
TheT.V. should wake from standby upon receiving a signal from the notebook.
I agree. It should.
To the best of my knowledge, the notebook will not turn the T.V. on from a powered off state. At least, I haven't found any indication that this model will.
Anyone else has a solution? There could be a way to turn it on from off state if HDMI CEC is implemented by HP.
Or another way..?

Main screen and dock move to second display

Hi all,
although i found many replies regarding to how to get the dock to the desired screen i face the following problem.
I am a vj/dj using serato dj, mix emergency and madmapper. Whenever i connect a second display to my macbook (macbook pro early 2013 retina, now on OS 10.9) the main screen and dock is transferred to that second display (e.g. projector). These softwares need to run to the main screen only, and this should be my laptop's screen.
Even if i get the dock back to my macbook display, these softwares recognise as MAIN display the external one and not my macbook pro's display.
I am facing this problem since my OS upgrade to 10.9 from 10.8!
Can i do something to my macbook so as to always recognise its own display as the main display? Does this problem exist on Yosemite as well?
Can i downgrade to 10.8 if all the rest fail?
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Hi konstadinos.k,
I understand you want your MacBook Pro to be the default display for your DJ software when you have a second display connected to it. Take a look at the article below that explains all of the options for extending or mirroring your displays. I've highlighted some key information below that may be helpful in your situation. Even though the article is for Mavericks, the info should still be applicable.
OS X: Using multiple displays in Mavericks - Apple Support
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202780
You can also assign an app to a specific display space from the app's menu in the Dock. Windows assigned to a space always open there when the display you specified is connected.
The blue boxes in Displays preferences represent each display that's connected. The size of each box is relative to the current resolution of each display. In this example, the smaller box on the left is the display of a 13" MacBook Pro while the larger box on the right represents the Apple 27" Thunderbolt Display.
Drag any of the blue boxes to change the location of a display in relation to your additional screens. You can use this feature to make sure your connected displays match their real world location when navigating windows. The white bar at the top of the blue box represents the menu bar. Drag the white bar onto the blue box representing the display you want as your primary display.
Hope that helps ...
- Judy

Anyone used another iMac as a second display?

I was thinking about getting another display for some more realistate while i'm editing and was trying to make it as asthetically pleasing as possible when this idea struck me. Why not find a broken or abandoned iMac out there and use it as a second display. Doesn't have to have anything in it except the display i just think it would look really nice having them side by side. Has anyone seen or done this? Any idea what the ouput from the monitor to the motherboard is? Anyone have an iMac to donate to my cause?

If you had a working iMac, you can use this clever app to make it into your second display over a network connection and VNC.
http://www.screenrecycler.com/home.html
I was thinking the iMac G4, with its infinitely adjustable swing arm would make a great second display. You can probably get one of those (working) in the 17-inch size for less than $300.
I use Screen Recycler to give my iMac a third display (on an old PC laptop running Ubuntu Linux).

Adding second display

I recently purchased a Viewsonic VX2260wm monitor:
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
This monitor handles Vga, DVI-D, and HDMI inputs.
I will be using the monitors in extended display mode and run FCE alot. What would be the recommended input route I should take?
1. Mini DVI to VGA
2. Mini DVI to DVI-D
3. Mini DVI to DVI-D to HDMI Conv to HDMI (Will This Send Audio To Monitor?)

Ok, I hooked it up and sort of magically it was enabled and it is now showing what my laptop screen is showing. Any tips on configuring? Also this screen is not widescreen and the entire desktop does not fit. Can anything be done about that?
I found that xinerama is being gradually abandoned in favor of XRandR but xrandr reports that it cannot find the second display. The output is the one below either I have the second screen connected or not.
$ xrandr -q
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1280 x 800, maximum 1280 x 800
default connected 1280x800+0+0 0mm x 0mm
1280x800 50.0*
1024x768 51.0
840x525 52.0
800x600 53.0
800x512 54.0
720x450 55.0
700x525 56.0
680x384 57.0 58.0
640x512 59.0
640x480 60.0 61.0
576x432 62.0
512x384 63.0
400x300 64.0
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What controls which screen is the 'Second Display

I have 4 screens on my mac
Two identical cards , each with two outputs.
3 monitors in panorama, with the 42 inch TV above the three
Today when i started, I selected Windows | Show Event sonSecond display...the Events panel popped up on the big TV screen, not where I had expected it,on the LHS. So I though it may be because of the way the screens were plugged in to the machine, so I reconfigured, swapping the TV cable with the LH screen cable.
All worked all, for 8 -8 hours. with the events n the LH screen.
I have not touched the cables again.
Now I re boot the Mac ..and fire up FCP again...and the Events have gone back up to the TV screen.
Am I going to have to swap cables each time , I want to start FCP or is there anther way? maybe eFCP X is just not really designed for multiple screens I guess?
Any hep appreciated
Google searches on this have come up fruitless yet again.

Hi guys
yes arrangement in Sys preferences is correct,
the mouse tracks across them
all as expected.
this is a pre Thunderbolt machine, 2008 3.1 mac pro tower.
Two identical Apple ATI 2600
cards. Two DVI ports onbeach
It is weird and there does not seem to be any logic or reason to what happens. I can swap the leads over, and each monitor in Sys Prefs keeps its place, desktop icons and backgroind maintain their corrrct arrsngement per monitor. So LH desktop backgroind will stay on LH screen, no matter what port its cable is plugged into.
Yet, you do a reboot & swap a few minutes later and it is totally random in sys preferencex.
FCP X will seem to randomly choose any of the other screens as its second display..
I know with launching an app from Spotlight, the app tends to open in tjd screen where the mouse is active, no matter which screen Sotlight was launched from.
I have multiscreen setup as 'Spaces' so each has its own Dock and Taskbar.
THis machine has Mavericks 10.9.5 on. I am quite scared to try Yosemite on it for fear of what else they have broken since 10.6. Laptop has Yosemite on it but not mutlimonitor capable.
this is definetly an FCP X issue rather than OS related. I can fire up Adobe Lightroom, and without fail it chooses the LH screen as its second monitor.
I Have a Premier Pro disk kicking aroind somewhere, may have to give that a try and see if that supports multi screen,

Twist s230u second display bad resolution

Hi I just bought a ThinkPad Twist S230U (3347-6LU) with Intyel HD 4000 graphics adapter and I try to connect my external 22" LCD monitor (1680x1050) using the miniHDMI to HDMI cable, but when I extend the desktop to the second display only have the 1920x1080,1280x720 and 1024x768 choices.
How can i add the correct resolution (1680x1050)?
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Alejandro Castrejon

I'm having a similar problem. When I plug the HDMI cable into the laptop, the screen does a quick flash to black like normal, but there's no signal to the external monitor. After a few seconds, the monitor goes into "HDMI power saving mode." I've tried multiple cables, multiple adapters, and even tried hooking it up to an HDMI projection system at my office. Same result with everything--laptop acts like an external display has been connected, but there' s no picture at the destination.
This used to work without a problem, so I don't know what's changed. I tried updating the display driver and even went back to Windows 8 and up to 8.1 again. Nothing. It's a huge problem because I travel and present for a living and some of the venues only have HDMI. I bought a minidisplay to HDMI adapter, but it would be nice to use the native port.

W700ds Second Display backlight brightness

Is there any way to adjust the brightness of second display on the W700ds?
When I got the laptop I'm not sure if it was working or not, now I have the laptop for 2 weeks and I removed many apps from startup and services (when I'm not using raid I don't want the programs to be running all the time, this way I disabled lot of system tray application which were running on default)
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Problems with FCP and my second display

Hi everyone !
I'd like to use for my editing and color correction a second display. I bought the JVC DT-V24L1D monitor, and plugged it into my MBP through a matrox mxo.
When inside FCP, I cannot find a way to display the canevas into my JVC screen, it displays the whole screen i already have on my laptop. I read the manual a good hundred times, and by following what is written I just got nothing. Can please somebody help me finding a way to set FCP ? Thanks.

You are probably better off posting this in the FCP forum, where there are several Matrox MXO users, but since I'm one, I'll give it a go.
When you install the Matrox software, you should have a whole new group of easy setups in FCP using the Matrox. If you are working with standard DV footage, choose the appropriate Matrox setup; i.e., Matrox MXO DV NTSC 720x480. There are also setups for HDV, etc.
After choosing an easy setup, and starting a new project, go to the view menu, and set your external video and audio to the same settings as the easy setup, if they aren't already correct.
Using Command/F12, you can switch from your regular display on the 2nd monitor to the FCP canvas.
A couple of other things to mention: for existing projects, you can change all of the above in your sequence settings, and under the View/External Video settings.
And, in system prefs/displays, set up your external display so that it is not mirroring the desktop; then you can create a dual display window arrangement in FCP, so that when you're not using the Matrox for viewing the canvas, you can have an expanded timeline, more space for your browser, etc., etc.
You can save your custom window arrangement, and toggle between it and the Matrox canvas view with the above mentioned Command/F12.

Using only the second display...

Is it possible to only use a second display connected to the dvi, while disabling the main display on the laptop?

Not true brother. Simply open back up the screen once you have established the connection with your external monitor and its native resolutions, and BINGO you can us the keyboard to type and the laptop screen will not turn on. In fact you can use all of the functiions of the laptop without the laptop screen truning on. Try it.

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