I got hold of a spare LCD with a VGA port and I attached my iMac Intel C2D to it. I fired up System Preferences and set up the proper resolution and color depth on the second monitor. I unchecked "Mirror Displays" so I can establish an extended desktop. Fine so far. What I want to happen is this: 1. I want to continue the usual desk work on the primary display which is the iMac. 2. At the same time, I want DVD Player to show a concert DVD on the other LCD display. How do I do this? There doesn't seem to be a way to slide the DVD Player app onto the second LCD display. Also, there is no mouse on the second display either. So even if I drag the menu bar to the 2nd display, I can't do much about it because the mouse control stays in the main display. I've searched the forum re extended desktop and this question hasn't been discussed at all. I Googled, gone to Apple Support but the answer there is the same as in the built-in Help section of the iMac. Please help.
regarding the dvd player: once the dvd player activates (after inserting the cd), it enters full screen mode right? hit apple + 2 to change the window to normal size, then drag it to your extended desktop. when it's there, hit apple + 0 to enter full screen mode. now for your mouse not appearing on your second desktop, have you fiddled with the arrangement option under the displays preference (System Preferences > Dispalys > Arrangement)? maybe you are pointing to the wrong side of your desktop. this happened to me once nefore. i kept on moving my cursor to the left side, which is where the actual external monitor is, yun pala the ibook recognizes it on the right side because i didn't change it on the arrangement option, sheesh (slaps hand on forehead). hope this solves your problem sir
You really have to drag the DVD Player to your extended desktop unlike QuickTime where you can set preferences to assign full screen mode to your other display. I hope DVD Player develops this functionality soon.
