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Trust Wireless Scroll Tablet with Dual Monitors

This was a task and a half! As I mentioned earlier I somehow managed to get my Trust Wireless Scroll Tablet working on a dual monitor system, mapped to only the primary monitor; so here’s my little guide on how I managed it.

As far as I am aware there isn’t an option in the trust software to allow you to map to a specific monitor, only to restrict the area on the tablet (which isn’t at all helpful). So what I’ve figured out is purely a work around, and it isn’t great either1. This is mainly for my reference, but someone else might find it useful, so here we go:

  1. Open up Display Properties and disable (“un-attach”) your secondary monitor.
  2. Open the Trust Control Panel from the icon in your system tray.
  3. Re-enable your second monitor.
  4. Click ok in your Trust Control Panel.

From there on out your tablet should only be mapped to the monitor that stayed enabled the whole time, that is until you re-open the Trust Control Panel. I didn’t say it was pretty!

What I can gather is that after disabling your monitor, when you open up the control panel it maps the overall screen size so it can apply that to the tablet, but when you click OK after re-enabling the monitor it doesn’t refresh with the screen change and so uses the single monitor values.

1 Also note that I have only tested this on my system.

Comments 5

  1. Neil Harper wrote:

    Thanks a Million!

    I was scratching my head over that one for a while.

    It worked like a charm!

    Posted 20 Feb 2008 at 2:19 pm
  2. Robin wrote:

    sounds great but didn’t work on my system…
    can you tell us what is your driver version ?
    thanks !

    Posted 28 May 2008 at 3:50 pm
  3. James Gregory wrote:

    Robin: Unfortunately I don’t have this setup on my machine anymore, so I can’t be much helper here.

    Posted 28 May 2008 at 6:13 pm
  4. Robin wrote:

    James, thanks for your answer, actually i’m dealing with the trust support service, who just told me about this trick (hee hee, do they read your blog ?).
    Though it seems to work on some configurations, they’ll have to agree it’s not worth implementing the functionnality on an upgreaded driver version.

    Anyway, thanks for sharing the trick, good luck to the other dual screen users, and if anybody has some clue about how to make it, they can contact me !

    Posted 29 May 2008 at 1:47 pm
  5. James Gregory wrote:

    That’s interesting to here, maybe I’m famous within Trust support circles.

    Thanks for your comments Robin, good luck!

    Posted 29 May 2008 at 1:54 pm