Is there a way to split a widescreen monitor in to two or more virtual monitors? [closed]

Solution 1:

can gridmove be of any assistance?

very handy tool on larger screens...

Solution 2:

I use WinSplit Revolution for the keyboard arrangement capability and I use bblean as a replacement for Explorer. It has multiple workspace capabilities built right in and it allows you to customize it exactly how you want it to look.

Solution 3:

It seems a window manager is what you want. The problem is finding one that works.

I use a tiling window manager in Linux (dwm) and it seems to do exactly what you are after, PLUS it has multiple workspaces which is what I thought you were going for at first.

A tiling window manager has no concept of "maximized" windows. All windows take up the full amount of space that they are allotted, and they never overlap. When you only have one window up on the screen, it gets the full screen. Open up another window, and it opens next to the first, while the first re-sizes automatically to take up only part of the screen. In dwm, the split between them is adjustable with keystrokes. Additional windows each take up their own allotted space on the screen, and any existing windows re-size to accommodate them depending on the particular layout you have chosen.

Workspaces use "tags"; any window can have one or more tags, and you can choose to see any windows that have one or more of a certain set of tags at a time. Thus you can hide windows that you don't want to see, and let the other windows take up more space.

Unfortunately, the few tiling add-ons I've tried for Windows don't work anywhere near as well. Although dwm has a few quirks with certain apps that use an SDI-style interface like Gimp or Pidgin (you can set windows as "floating" above the tiled layout to work around this), I've never had it get confused about where my windows are or shove windows off the screen like some of the window managers I've tried on Windows. If anyone knows of something with equivalent functionality that actually WORKS on Windows, I would love to know about it.

Solution 4:

From what i understand, you can just manage windows using microsoft. hold control and select multiple windows in the taskbar, then right click it and tile whatever way you want. what i've been looking for is a way to actually split a physical monitor into two. so you can run not just windowed prgrams (explorer, firefox, whatever) but full screen programs like games or movies or whatever else you want. this is super useful to fix bugs in full screen programs. im tired of these "windows mangagers" its easier just to click and drag it where you want. and im not OCD about it lining up just right. i just want to split a monitor into two. is that so hard to ask?

Solution 5:

The only software that I found that already exists is Matrox PowerDesk. Among other things it lets you split a monitor into 2 virtual desktops. You have to have a compatible matrox video card though. It also does a bunch of other multi-monitor functions.