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      Ety60 last edited by

      hello everyone, I am making a Magic Mirror with an rpi4 and 2 screens that I place on top of each other. When I run the Magic Mirror software, it only shows on 1 screen. Is there a possibility to do this on the 2 screens?

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        sdetweil @Ety60 last edited by sdetweil

        @Ety60 I haven’t been able to make it use both displays on startup… I can drag the image to fill both screens…

        you can fiddle with the display options

        var config = { 
             electronOptions : { ????? },
             modules : []
        }
        

        x and y describe the top left corner of the display
        width and height describe the size and shape of the page

        kiosk mode turns on fullscreen, no title bar, and some other things, not resizable I think… really a pain on mac)

        the defintion of these options are here

        https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/browser-window

        I use the electronOptions to have MM run on the second display on my desktop system

        electronOptions: { x: 1920 },

        so I tried

         electronOptions: { x: 0, width: 1920, height: 2160, minHeight: 2160, kiosk: false, fullscreen: false,  backgroundColor: "#00000001", autoHideMenuBar :true},
        

        and it starts fullscreen on the 1st monitor (had to crop the screen shot to get it under 2 meg)
        Screenshot at 2020-08-07 08-34-36.png
        and

        electronOptions: { x: 1920, width: 1920, height: 2160, minHeight: 2160, kiosk: false, fullscreen: false,  backgroundColor: "#00000001", autoHideMenuBar :true}, 
        

        and it starts large, on the second monitor, but not quite full screen as the taskbar is not present on monitor 2.
        Screenshot at 2020-08-07 08-35-02.png

        neither the system , nor MM know about the physical placement of the displays

        Sam

        Create a working config
        How to add modules

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          sdetweil @sdetweil last edited by

          @Ety60 i have played with all kinds of scripts that ‘should’ work, but don’t… all oldish 2-3 years

          Sam

          Create a working config
          How to add modules

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            Ety60 last edited by Ety60

            @sdetweil thanks for your quick and very complete answer. But do I understand that it is not possible to run the software on 2 screens? Could it be possible to run a separate magic mirror on each screen?

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              sdetweil @Ety60 last edited by sdetweil

              @Ety60 yes, rename one MagicMirror folder to MagicMirror2 and install a second instance, and in the config.js of one use the
              electronOptions:{x:1920}
              to display beyond the 1st display

              Sam

              Create a working config
              How to add modules

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                Ety60 last edited by

                @sdetweil I addded electronOptions: {x: 1920} to my config file and I didn’t get an error but it still only shows up on the first screen. Am I doing something wrong?

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                  sdetweil @Ety60 last edited by sdetweil

                  @Ety60 like this, inside the config structure

                  var config={
                     electronOptions:{ x: 1920 },
                     ...
                      modules :[],
                  }
                  

                  Sam

                  Create a working config
                  How to add modules

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                    Ety60 last edited by

                    Thanks for the quick respons
                    Yes, exact like that.

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                      sdetweil last edited by sdetweil

                      hm, this is mine, cut and paste, opens on second display

                      
                      var config = {
                        electronOptions: { x: 1920}, 
                      

                      are you using docker or MagicMirrorOS

                      Sam

                      Create a working config
                      How to add modules

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                        Ety60 last edited by

                        I found the error, because I put the 2 screens on top of each other, not x but y = 1920.
                        But I have found that the magicmirror2 folder is listening for the config file of the magicmirror folder. How can I adjust this?

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