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First post, by Yushatak

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I'd like to hook a CRT up as a secondary monitor and dedicate it to DOSBox. Ideally I could also dedicate a keyboard and mouse to it, but I understand that that's a bit crazy.

Anywho, I can't get DOSBox to go fullscreen on any non-primary display. I read around online and found precious little on the topic. One place mentioned a variable "SDL_VIDEO_FULLSCREEN_DISPLAY" being set to 2 for a third monitor, so I tried it set to 1 and it still fullscreened to the first monitor.

Anybody?

Reply 1 of 1, by frobme

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Unfortunately this has always been a weak spot for SDL (in fairness, SDL was released before it was anywhere near common to have two monitors, and DirectX didn't even support an exclusive framebuffer on the second monitor at that time).

I don't think it works in 1.2 regardless of settings. It's been discussed as one of the many things that should go in SDL 1.3.

-Frob

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