View desktop on TV?

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[ste parker] <imaginey@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Was playing around with a new laptop the other day (IBM Thinkpad R50),
> and seeing as it has s-video out I thought I'd try rig it up to the
> TV. The only result I could get was a typical extended desktop
> (main desktop on laptop screen, with the extra "space" of the TV
> screen available to drag/move into). I can never just activate the
> TV display on it's own.

Go into display properties and uncheck the box for the external display that
says "Extend the desktop to this display".

You'll then be able to switch between the internal and external displays
with Fn+F7.

Regards,

James

Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops (More info?)

JHEM said the following on 28/04/2004 14:20:

> [ste parker] <imaginey@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Was playing around with a new laptop the other day (IBM Thinkpad R50),
>>and seeing as it has s-video out I thought I'd try rig it up to the
>> TV. The only result I could get was a typical extended desktop
>>(main desktop on laptop screen, with the extra "space" of the TV
>>screen available to drag/move into). I can never just activate the
>>TV display on it's own.
>
>
> Go into display properties and uncheck the box for the external display that
> says "Extend the desktop to this display".
>
> You'll then be able to switch between the internal and external displays
> with Fn+F7.
>

Thanks for that, I'll give it a try. I actually feel quite foolish now
as I remember playing around with the quite nice presentation/display
stuff that comes up on this machine with fn-f7 (though that was just
initial curiosity then rather than trying to use it). Totally forgot it
was there!


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[ste]