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Splitting a 4K monitor
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Moonlit Raid
Doomheim
#1 - 2016-02-17 19:31:53 UTC
Hi all; I recently bought myself a 4K monitor and am wanting to set up for 4 accounts. I've gone with setting my clients to windowed mode and simply dragging them to the corners of the screen to get 4 clients to a screen. Is it possible for me to set the "origin" of a fixed window client? At the moment it's all well and good until I accidentally drag one of my windows.

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Mr Epeen
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#2 - 2016-02-17 19:43:07 UTC
Moonlit Raid wrote:
At the moment it's all well and good until I accidentally drag one of my windows.
Best solution is to not have those accidents.

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Pandora Carrollon
Provi Rapid Response
#3 - 2016-02-17 20:52:56 UTC
You can use a third party tool to lock window size and position. Windows itself just works off of remembering the last position.

If you only have EVE's 4 windows running, you can mess with the stacked/tiled/cascade options by right clicking on the taskbar and seeing what they do. I think different versions of Windows generate different results.

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Mina Sebiestar
Minmatar Inner Space Conglomerate
#4 - 2016-02-17 22:54:59 UTC
monitor it self should have 2/4way split screen so your gpu recognize 4 monitors...not sure can that help but i think then you can set fixed window mode on clients so no accidental drag.

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Tau Cabalander
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#5 - 2016-02-18 00:27:46 UTC
This may be severely outdated, but:

EVE-O Preview:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=389086
Ima Wreckyou
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The Conference
#6 - 2016-02-18 01:41:47 UTC
I use a tiling windows manager called awesome-wm for that. However that only works on Linux. But maybe there is something similar for Windows.

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#7 - 2016-02-18 03:19:06 UTC
Cool humblebrag bro...
Ibutho Inkosi
Doomheim
#8 - 2016-02-18 07:28:09 UTC
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#9 - 2016-02-18 11:40:47 UTC
Moonlit Raid
Doomheim
#10 - 2016-02-18 23:36:44 UTC
Ibutho Inkosi wrote:
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Tau Cabalander wrote:
This may be severely outdated, but:

EVE-O Preview:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=389086

Not really what I'm after, I'm ok with them all being visible at once just would prefer it to be fixed windows.
Mina Sebiestar wrote:
monitor it self should have 2/4way split screen so your gpu recognize 4 monitors...not sure can that help but i think then you can set fixed window mode on clients so no accidental drag.
I can something similar, but only to a maximum of 2 video inputs. So I can have 2 Full HD inputs side by side, or run 3 eve clients and play my Xbox in the bottom corner :p
Pandora Carrollon wrote:
You can use a third party tool to lock window size and position. Windows itself just works off of remembering the last position.

If you only have EVE's 4 windows running, you can mess with the stacked/tiled/cascade options by right clicking on the taskbar and seeing what they do. I think different versions of Windows generate different results.
Windows ten lets you just drag to a corner as pictured, giving me a perfect 1/4 split, but I'm losing real estate having to have the clients in windowed mode.
Anyone know anything about how EVE chooses it's "origin" for fixed window mode? I've had it non top left after changing monitors once in a while, but nothing that seemed predictable.
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