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Open SAP Digital Boardroom agendas in full-screen on multiple monitors with a Chrome application.
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Multi Desktop Fullscreen for Chrome

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Multi Desktop Full Screen for Chrome shows a web page extended across one or more desktops without a menu bar, toolbar or title bar. Without this app, Google Chrome can only use full screen on a single desktop monitor.

With this Chrome App we can use Windows 10 to extend the desktop (which is a standard way of doing things and does not require specific graphics cards) instead of using the graphics cards to make a combined desktop.

Download

Click to download multi-desktop-full-screen-for-chrome.crx

Requirements

Setup Instructions

Use Windows 10 to extend the desktop over three screens

Do not use the graphics card to combine the three screens into a single desktop as that will confuse the Windows 10 Tablet PC Settings as it will think you only have one screen.

  1. Right-click on the Windows10 desktop and select Display settings
  2. Change the size of text, apps and other items to 100%

Under Multiple displays make sure you:

  1. Extend the desktop to all three of your displays
  2. Note: If you need to you can rearrange the display order so that when you select identify then match the order shown under Customize your displays (1 - 2 - 3, or 2 - 1 - 3, etc)
  3. Make your left-most display the main display (primary)

Use Windows 10 Tablet PC Settings for touch

You can now set up touch, using Windows 10 Tablet PC Settings instead of using vendor specific software to combine three touchscreens into a single touchscreen.

  1. Go to the Windows Start menu and search for and then select Tablet PC Settings
  2. Select Setup
  3. When prompted touch the screen that says Touch this screen to identify it as the touchscreen.
  4. When prompted press Enter to change to the next touchscreen.
  5. Do this for all three touchscreens.
  6. If prompted save the settings and then close the Tablet PC Settings.

You should now be able to use touch across the three screens within Windows.

Install the Chrome App

Now you have setup the Windows 10 extended desktop and the Windows Tablet PC Settings you can use Multi Desktop Full Screen for Chrome.

  1. Open Google Chrome.
  2. Go to the Google Chrome extensions page: chrome://extensions/
  3. Drag multi-desktop-full-screen-for-chrome.crx into the extensions page within Google Chrome.
  4. When asked to Add "Multi Desktop Full Screen for Chrome"? select Add app.

Run the Multi Desktop Full Screen for Chrome

  1. Within Google Chrome go to the list of installed apps: chrome://apps/
  2. Select Multi Desktop Full Screen for Chrome.

Note: The first time you run Multi Desktop Full Screen for Chrome (or if you reset the options) the options window is shown so you can type in the URL to the web page that you want to use.

Help: To get back to the options window press F10. If you want to see a list of keys you can use and some additional help press F1.

Hint: If you want to use a local web page you need to first host your local web page in a web server. For example you could try Web Server for Google Chrome app.

Create a Windows desktop shortcut to open Multi Desktop Full Screen for Chrome

  1. Within Google Chrome go to the installed apps page: chrome://apps/
  2. Right-click on the Multi Desktop Full Screen for Chrome app and select Create shortcut...
  3. Select Create to the Windows shortcut.

Note: Now you can keep Google Chrome closed and use a shortcut to open Multi Desktop Full Screen for Chrome.

Troubleshooting Multi Desktop Full Screen for Chrome

If Multi Desktop Full Screen for Chrome is not using all of your desktops:

  1. Make sure the left-most desktop is set as main/primary
  2. Make sure when Google Chrome is open it fits within the left-most desktop It is best to use a desktop shortcut and then keep Google Chrome closed.

Uninstalling Multi Desktop Full Screen for Chrome

  1. Open Google Chrome.
  2. Go to the list of installed apps: chrome://apps/
  3. Right-click on "Multi Desktop Full Screen for Chrome" and select "Remove from Chrome...".
  4. When asked Remove "Multi Desktop Full Screen for Chrome"? Select Remove.

Licensing

Copyright 2016-2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company and digitalboardroom-multidesktop-fullscreen-chrome contributors. Please see our LICENSE for copyright and license information. Detailed information including third-party components and their licensing/copyright information is available via the REUSE tool.