Dual Monitor Setup Question!

[steeleb]

hi.. I have a Matrox G450... I am working in Dual Head mode. I ma using Maya 4.0. How can I adjust Maya to keep the work area (the four windows and the menus) on one of the monitors and other windows like Atribute Editor, Hyapershader, Hypargraph and Render view on the other. I have tried the "save layout" option but it did not help. I have made my dual view settings... every thing works great. When I run Maya it will open in one of the windows... when I run maya pressing the SHIFT key (this disables the open the program windo in single monitor) the maya will open streched across two monitors... but this results in a long work area... again no place for the other windows. So I keep maya in one monitor.. and carry the other windows (Attribute Editor, Hybergraph, Render View etc) But when I restart Maya... the extra windows (Attribute Editor, Hybergraph, Render View etc) keep oppening in the monitor where Maya is opened... is there a way to fix that? Maya 3.0 was easier to setup for dual view. Need advice on this.

thanks.

[stanislav]

Have you managed to fix it? I am having the same problem with a WildCat5110 machine, the values in the windowPrefs.mel get overwritten every time Maya is restarted.

Any advice anybody? Thanks,

S.

[ragtag]

Try opening Maya. Sizing the window up to the size you want. Closing Maya. Open it again, and it will be the size you made it last time you opened it.

Works for me, I just tried....then again I'm working in Maya 3.0.1, so maybe it's a Maya 4 bug.

Ragnar

[stanislav]

Thanks, Ragnar.

Well... I did know that much...

Here is what I have tried:

1. Positioning windows in two monitors and closing Maya. The windows (Outliner, etc.) would reappear in the primary monitor docked in the top right corner.

2. Editing windowPrefs.mel values.

E.g.

windowPref -topLeftCorner 0 1650 -widthHeight 250 400 -parentMain true outlinerPanel1Window;

After Maya restart the Outliner window would still appear docked in the top right corner with the values overwritten as follows:

windowPref -topLeftCorner 0 1350 -widthHeight 250 400 -parentMain true outlinerPanel1Window;

Ah, to put the numbers into context, I am running two monitors @ 1600x1200.

I have also tried setting -parentMain to false with no noticeable effect. All changes to the file were made with Maya closed.

Another thing, how would I cause certain windows (Outliner, Hypergraph, etc.) to open automatically (in their correct positions obviously...) upon Maya start-up? And it would also be good to have the channel box, shelves and toolbars in the secondary monitor. As I understand all these windows are invoked in Maya via MEL procedures. My meek tampering with userRunTimeCommands.mel is yet to bring any usable results