Is it possible to have Xtreme, either wholly or parts thereof, active on several of these VDs (oops, definitely no pun intended!), or is this something you might consider Jorge, or impossible/too complicated?

As far as I know the dock, Shelf, etc, already move automatically to the current VD, unless MS changed something in the mean time.

Oddly, haven't really seen anything on VDs anywhere here so far. Used to be the buzz thing about 20 years ago - remember BeOS? (Everybody forgot that OS/2 already had them! Or at any rate as a third party add on, IIRC by a company we both know well Jorge.) And didn't Hooverdesk also do them?

I was using virtual desktops back in the Windows 3.1 era. Thanks to Norton Desktop for Windows (a brilliant piece of software at the time). I have asked Jorge about virtual desktops a few times (he pointed me to the app I currently use instead of MS's due to wanting to have a selector visible on screen to switch between desktops).

Ah, brill! Haven't really used VDs yet, but I could see situations where I may do so and having Winstep on the active VD will be most useful.

Devil is always in the details, of which you have shared nothing.

So allow me to guess (and even if I don't get it right it's still useful information): you're running Windows 10, right?

While Nexus supports system wide high-DPI, Windows 10 introduced something even newer, which is *individual* DPI settings *per monitor*. If it took a very long time for applications to start supporting system-wide high DPI, even fewer (if any) applications currently support per monitor DPI settings.

And here is the problem: if the application does not specifically tell Windows that it has support for high-DPI settings per monitor in its built-in manifest, Windows will then literally LIE to the application about screen resolutions, etc...

I understand why Microsoft did it this way, but if it solves some problems, it also creates others, as you can see.

The solution for now is to make all monitors share the same DPI settings (if one is 100% DPI and the other 125% DPI, you must make *both* either 100% or 125% DPI). So, check the DPI settings of all your monitors - if you change them you will need to restart Nexus.

Something else that might be happening, has to do with how you configured Windows to see all your monitors: either as separate individual monitors, where the desktop extends to each one, or as a single big monitor. In the latter case Nexus will also only be able to see a single monitor, which would disable the monitor selection combo box.

I've tried setting the window scaling solution to 100% but unfortunately the monitor selection box is still greyed out.

I recently configured my Graphics cards to use SLI, given your latter point I imagine this would be the cause, would there be any fix around this other than disabling it?

Wow! You were brave enough to use Win 3.1 Paul!? Shocking. (Steered clear of it myself, too horrible, but did experimentally run NT 3.5x which had the same ghastly interface and propensity for BSoDs, so not much better.)

Yes, I remember reading about Norton DT at the time, and had another pretty decent Norton app here - N. Commander, only half decent file manager then available under Win.

Some sort of visible selector for VDs is definitely useful. And that app is, BTW? BeOS went a bit OTT with their huge grid, I remember (ran it here till about 4.x, though not very useful as so few apps available and no security, no login/pw even), but the one under OS/2 was quite neat, sort of dock-like ISTR.

Well, it was probably 3.11 but still . . . most all of my games were DOS, so I would actually exit Windows for them. The virtual desktop program is called Dexpot.

Did you remember to restart the Winstep application after doing that?



So you have more than one graphics card? Are both monitors connected to the same graphics card?

Also, if by SLI you mean AMD Eyefinity or nVidia Surround, then those modes 'lie' to the OS to make it believe it is dealing with a single big resolution monitor instead of multiple separate monitors. However, given that your two monitors have different sizes and screen resolutions, I don't think that is the case - in which case SLI is only used by games and doesn't affect your Windows desktop experience (or the Winstep application).

I restarted the PC after changing the scaling options of each monitor and it seams to have worked. Is there any workaround for this? at 100% the text on the 4k monitor is just too tiny

Unfortunately not currently. Adding high DPI support *per monitor* is not a trivial task.