First I have to say that the initial setting was on 'Duplicate these displays', that’s apparently why only one display showed. I changed it to ‘Extend these displays’ and changed the DPI setting to 100% and both showed a reading. Oh, I also changed the setting to ‘Make this my main display’. I can’t remember if I did it before or after using the program.
Generic PnP Monitor (Primary Monitor): (0,0) - (2194,1234)
Generic PnP Monitor: (2194,0) - (2194,1234)
Okay, so now that that’s out of the way, here is the weird part.
1. I thought I made the TV my main display because the settings showed on my TV. But, when I made a screenshot using a third-party app with an area feature, the drawing square was on both the TV and the monitor, but took the shot of only the TV. This later struck me as odd which I’m about to explain.
2. All of my docks and WorkShelf are on my monitor (which is to the right of my TV.) and almost all of my bumps work. The two that don’t work are my bottom right corner bump, (my other three corner bumps work) and now my left bump since the cursor goes through to the TV.
3. Am I supposed to move that dock to the TV so it can work? And if so, how?
4. Now for the even weirder part. Anything already opened shows up on the TV. Anything I click on whether it’s from the TV or the monitor shows on the TV. However, there are some exceptions!
Once I click on a video, picture, or document, it will show on the monitor no matter which display I originated the click from.
For example, The folder for the Test Monitors program is open on the TV. I clicked on the application to launch it. It opens on the TV. But when I click Run, it opens on the monitor!
Another odd thing that happened is when I tried a Microsoft PowerPoint Show Document which uses LibreOffice Impress to open it since I don’t have MS Word. It opened on both the TV and the monitor, however, the TV showed a blank white page while the monitor correctly displayed it.
5. For some reason, I decided to see what would happen if I changed the DPI back to 175%. Amazingly, all of my bump settings worked!! Fortunately, I didn’t move any of the modules that were out of position while it was at 100% and they all kept their original positions when I changed it back to 175%. This is the first time that I didn’t have to readjust any of them after changing the DPI settings. Jorge, did you recently change something to prevent that from happening, or did I just get lucky?
6. So, after all of that, it dawned on me to move the stuff over to the TV.  The good thing about that is that it made me more familiar with ‘Extend these displays’ mode.
So in closing, I have a few questions.
1a. How do I make the TV the primary display so that the outcome here will be on the TV instead of the monitor? Do I do that in the settings where it says monitor 1 and 2?
2a. This is reiterating the question I asked in 3. Am I supposed to move that dock to the TV so it can work? And if so, how? But if I make the TV my primary, I hope I don’t have the right side bump issue as before.
3a. Jorge, it is possible to make a setting/feature that will allow a side bump on the side where the cursor passes through to the other display by a key-press?
Something similar as the awesome feature you have when you want to move a PNG image into a drive on the dock instead of it changing the dock drive icon...by holding the Shift key down while dragging the PNG image into the dock drive icon which will move the image into the drive.
It will work in the opposite manner. Instead of allowing something to pass through, it will stop the cursor from passing through to the other display which will allow side screen bumps.
P.S. I was going to post the screenshot I took, but decided that it might not be necessary in light of the 175% DPI settings working and finding out I can move certain things to the other display.
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