Digital Tigers SideCar MMS Series QuickDesk / PowerDesk utilities window / dialog box positioning

QuickDesk / PowerDesk utilities (window / dialog box positioning)

The SideCar MMS includes Matrox QuickDesk / PowerDesk utilities that improve the convenience of working with your multi-monitor desktop. Features of these utilities include controlling where dialog boxes and program windows appear – so alert messages from your programs appear where you want them, and programs open in your preferred monitors.

Since your multi-monitor desktop may span as many as six monitors, these utilities are very helpful for visual organization. If you notice that dialog boxes are opening across the “seam” between two monitors, or that you are moving programs around frequently from one monitor to another, you may want to customize your preferences using these easy utilities.

Any time a SideCar monitor is active (and the computer has been rebooted once since installation of the SideCar), a QuickDesk shortcut loads automatically on the Windows Taskbar. It is a blue icon that appears near the clock on the Taskbar:

Clicking on that icon opens the following QuickDesk menu:

Select any of these items to explore options for customizing your workspace. For example, selecting “Multi-Display Controls” opens the following dialog box:

50- USER OPTIONS FOR MULTI-DISPLAY EASE OF USE