# Multiple Monitors

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/multiple-monitors/157596>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [August 3, 2005, 1:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/multiple-monitors/157596 "2005-08-03T01:22:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Butters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Butters](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Butters)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 1:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/multiple-monitors/157596/1 "2005-08-03T01:22:11Z")

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Ok so I have a ATI Radeon 9800 XT Pro 256mb graphics card. It has an RGB and a DVI port on it, and I have a 20" plugged into the RGB and a 15" plugged into the DVI.

Can I get my desktop to spread across both of them? What can I actually get to display on the 15", at the moment, it just shows my desktop image (no icons or anything) while the 20" just shows what it would normally.

I played around with the settings a bit but didn’t find a way to spread it across or display something different on each monitor.

Edit: I managed to get it so that the cursor pans across both screens (when I move it off the edge of the 20", it apperas on the 15", but I can’t get anything on the 15" except the desktop (all I can do is right click on it, theres no icons, no taskbar, nothing!)