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September 14, 2013

Send to Rift (Rift as Extended Desktop Tool)

So, I run my Rift as a 3rd monitor setup as an Extended desktop. I frequently need my second monitor for development needs and can't scale it down to 1280x800 to mirror the Rift, so I wrote this little applet that will take a running windowed process and "move" it over to an identified Rift DK (currently checking for 1280x800 to identify which screen is the Rift) and maximize it.

So in short. It'll take a windowed app that you chose, and push it over there so you don't have to mirror the Rift on one of your main displays.

It's not perfect (some apps require you to "click" over on that third screen to bring it to focus), and I can't figure out how to get an app to go to fullscreen borderless, but it gets the job done. I've made it open source under GNU GPLv3 over on Google Code if anyone would like to take a look at it or suggest better ways to do things. (I'm by no means a c# expert)


https://code.google.com/p/send-to-rift/

Cheers!

    5 replies

    Participant
    September 14, 2013
    This sounds fantastic and I'm sure plenty of people will find this extremely useful, I can't wait to try it.
    Participant
    September 15, 2013
    Sounds great. Will try it out. Thanks!
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    Up and Coming
    October 8, 2013
    trying the sh*t out of this one 2nite
    New Participant
    October 10, 2013
    I was really frustrated with my 4 monitor setup. This solved my problems!

    Thanks a ton!
    Up and Coming
    November 9, 2013
    what a cool idea. sure a lot of people will find this pretty useful.
    get your game on ....