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    MagicMirror on Dual Screen

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      geek_kaushal
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      Hello People,
      I am building a MagicMirror on Pi4. And since it has 2 hdmi out ports and I have a few monitors lying around, thought it will be a good idea to build a 3 feet x 2 feet mirror with two screens. Its in early phase right now as I am still configuring it. I am using two monitors in extended mode (not duplicating it).
      How can I run magic mirror on both screens. I have created two instances of magicmirror in two folders, mm1 and mm2. I can run each of them successfully but they run on the same monitor only.
      I need to run mm1 instance on monitor 1 and mm2 instance on monitor 2. Please guide. Thanks…

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        Cpaczek
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        This is something you would have to add to the electron logic. Something like this https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/4877

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          sdetweil @geek_kaushal
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          @geek_kaushal in one config.js add

          electronOptions:{x:????},
          

          where ??? is the width of the screen, to put that mm on the second screen

          on my Pi4
          it is
          electronOptions:{x:3840},

          Sam

          How to add modules

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            Cpaczek
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            once you have one of the electron instances up and selected use the shortcut key (super (windows key) + shift + [left, right, up, down]) to move it to a difference screen. this works on most linux distros but not sure if this would work on rasbian. if this doesn’t work i’ll write a script.

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              geek_kaushal @Cpaczek
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              @Cpaczek Looks Promising, I will give it a go in a few hours and post results here.

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                Axel51 @geek_kaushal
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                @geek_kaushal did u test it?

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