50 User’s GuideChapter 4Using nView Multi-Display SettingsFigure 4.11 Multiple Displays in nView Horizontal Span Mode• Under nView Span modes, Windows “stretches” the background wallpaper out tocover your large “logical” display and it stretches the taskbar out to fill your large“logical” display, as shown in Figure 4.11. If you maximize an application, theapplication will be maximized to fill the large “logical” display screen – i.e., bothdisplays.• Under Windows XP/2000, you can run nView Span modes with more than twodisplays. For example, if you are using a Quadro NVS‐based graphics card towhich you have four displays connected, you can have two sets of two spanneddisplays.If you are using a Quadro NVS‐based graphics card, refer to the document titled“NVIDIA ForceWare Driver for Windows Using nView MultiView Modes with NVIDIAQuadro NVS‐based Graphics Cards”Using Horizontal & Vertical Span ModesNote: Span modes do not work if you have only one display attached.In Span mode, the Windows desktop area is spread across both displays. This modecan be set for multiple categories of displays, although display limitations mayoverride the capabilities of your NVIDIA multi‐display graphics card. For example, ifDisplay 1 Display 2Taskbar is stretchedacross displays.Background is stretchedacross displays.
