{"id":8221,"date":"2020-03-02T11:32:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T19:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=8221"},"modified":"2020-12-08T20:14:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T04:14:47","slug":"on-having-2-monitors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2020\/03\/02\/on-having-2-monitors-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On Having 2 Monitors"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have 2 monitors on my laptop computer. It’s nice. Here’s info about my second monitor:
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\n– AOC 15.6″ USB powered monitor<\/a>
\n– ClickMonitorDDC<\/a> (12-8-20 that link is broken now, see here<\/a>)
\n– Displaylink driver<\/a> (12-8-20: not any more, see below)<\/p>\n

I set up ClickMonitorDDC so I could change the brightness of both monitors easily. Info here<\/a>. I also set it up to change the volume easily.<\/p>\n

I had an, apparently common problem where sometimes the screen would restart repeatedly. To fix it, I disabled “USB Selective Suspend” and upgraded to the December 2019 Displaylink drivers. That fixed it. There’s more tips on fixing that problem here<\/a> in case my fix doesn’t do it.<\/p>\n

I bought 2 of those USB-powered monitors so I don’t have to drag it from home to work each day. That was nice.<\/p>\n

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Update 12-8-20: To get my second monitor to work well, I used to run the Displaylink<\/a> drivers but with a recent update to… something… I don’t know… they weren’t working well but the Intel drivers started working. I used the Intel Driver & Support Assistant<\/a> to automagically install and update the right drivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have 2 monitors on my laptop computer. It’s nice. Here’s info about my second monitor: – AOC 15.6″ USB powered monitor – ClickMonitorDDC (12-8-20 that link is broken now, see here) – Displaylink driver (12-8-20: not any more, see below) I set up ClickMonitorDDC so I could change the brightness of both monitors easily. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}