![]() ![]() ![]() Older laptops sometimes receive a firmware update to achieve the same goal. Laptop vendors are following Microsoft’s recommendation, and new laptops now map the display switch key to win+p. So, the end result is bug reports like this one. The clever cookies among you probably know by now what Microsoft is doing. In Linux, these events are all turned into a KEY_SWITCHVIDEOMODE which makes it easy to create standardised behaviour. Great little feature.Ī lot of laptops have a key to switch between displays – it more or less achieves the same goal via the keyboard controller, WMI, or ACPI. This eliminates the need for vendor-specific tools to achieve the same goal. Pressing win+p allows you to use the dialog to cycle through the different output options (clone, extend, second only, first only). In Windows 7, Microsoft introduced an incredibly handy pop-up dialog that allows you to easily manage multiple display output. It’s small, you’ll barely notice it, but dear lord, it’s really, really annoying. ![]() And then, just when you think they’re starting to get it – they go behind our backs to do something incredibly insipid. After years of dragging their feet, the company is finally implementing web standards in Internet Explorer, there’s a boatload of interoperability information now, that sort of stuff. So, we have Microsoft slowly but surely trying to be a better citizen in the computing world – with the emphasis on trying. ![]()
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