2 hours ago, JanGerbr said:

Qurious to hear about how you change between the two monitors you want to work with. For example, you have your FS VC on monitor A while you get your plane set up and ready, you have the manual PDF on monitor B and need to scroll to the next page... Would that be just a matter of pushing a dedicated "change monitor" key or a mouse click somewhere ?... 

Thanks for your help! 😉 

With a multi monitor setup you can move your mouse across one monitor tot he other and then use it like normal.

Edited April 21, 20251 yr by regis9

Beautiful ! Thanks very much, Dave ! 👍

4 hours ago, JanGerbr said:

Qurious to hear about how you change between the two monitors you want to work with. For example, you have your FS VC on monitor A while you get your plane set up and ready, you have the manual PDF on monitor B and need to scroll to the next page... Would that be just a matter of pushing a dedicated "change monitor" key or a mouse click somewhere ?... 

Okay, so I actually have 4 monitors up and running. I said two earlier for the sake of simplicity. Here's what I have: three 32" 4k monitors set up with one in the center, one to the left, and one to the right. The 4th monitor is a miniature (800 x 600) screen that lives inside a hardware CDU. Forget that one for now.

The CENTER monitor has the flight sim on it. 

The LEFT monitor has Navigraph charts, RealTraffic, and PSXTraffic. 

The RIGHT monitor has AutoFPS and lots of leftover desk space for projects, always including a browser window (on which I am currently reading posts on Avsim and typing this reply). This is where I would also have my PDF reader open for looking at manuals, or the QRH, and things like that.

I don't use a virtual cockpit, so it's just a matter of moving the mouse to the monitor that has whatever app I need to interact with. The flight sims lose focus when I interact with another app, which would possibly be an issue if I were using frame generation, but I don't use that so it's not a problem for me. Sometimes I forget which window has the focus, but it's quickly apparent if that's the case. 

There is no need to use a "change monitor key," because windows recognizes this as one giant desktop. Moving the mouse all the way from left to right takes the pointer from the left edge of the left monitor all the way across the center monitor and to the right edge of the right monitor. You just move the mouse to the app you want to use and click to give that app the focus, just like you would if all the apps were on one monitor. It's basically a big desktop that stretches across all the monitors. Windows does this automatically, no need for any special configuration wizardry.

Edited April 22, 20251 yr by prolixindec