IO::Tty maybe in unix or cygwin?

Need more info. Your description is unfortunately confusing. Is it the case that you have a dual-headed video card of which you are only using one of the heads to show a text-based screen, and you also have a secondary dumb vt100 terminal hooked up to serial output?

If you are talking about throwing out the vt100 terminal and using modern displays on both heads then you just need to start up your program on the other display. If you are running two unix curses displays maybe the IO::Tty module is what you want. Or read the X server comment above.

Incidentally I have not used it but you might want to check Ultramon a (free I believe) multimonitor window manager for windows, if that's what you are using. My understanding is that basically you get a single desktop spanning the two monitors, not like with two separate X sessions (could be both are possible with XP..), and that you can set an app to open on a given monitor (or perhaps use a script if you have ultramon). In which case perl would think it is just a window on your desktop, and you could move the window to a certain position with a gui library (like Wx::Perl I suppose). Possibliy you could read Ultramon's library and script in Perl though they talk about Jscript and Basic stuff. Please describe setup and exactly what you want to do if this doesn't help.

In reply to Re: contolling two screens by mattr
in thread contolling two screens by Anonymous Monk

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