From time to time I hear people saying that they cannot user their external monitor with Haiku from a laptop or netbook. While it is true that there is not much multi-monitor support in Haiku, there is still a very simple way that may just allow you to do this without any difficult tinkering. I came up with this trick a few years ago, when I was scheduled to give a Haiku talk at the Kansai Open Source conference in Japan. I had Haiku installed on my laptop, and for the presentation I had to use a projector to display the system on a big screen. However, switching to the external video output was not possible in Haiku. This was very bad news for me, as I wanted to run my Haiku demo natively, as opposed to in a VM, and that would have not been unless I could drive the PC projector. Well, with a bit of imagination, I came up with a simple but effective trick to do just this, and I am sharing my little secret with you.
