How do I start KSP on a secondary monitor?

[Srpadget]

I'm sure there's an answer to this somewhere already, but I can't find it.

I recently acquired a shiny new big-screen 1440p monitor as my (Win 10) laptop's secondary screen.  I want to run KSP there.  I would prefer to keep the built-in monitor as the Primary monitor because Reasons.  But I can't seem to find anything in Settings that admits to the existence of systems with more than one monitor.

What incredibly-obvious thing am I missing...?

All I've been able to find searching the forums are people trying to put map view on one monitor and external camera view on another--and that's not my problem at all.  My problem is simpler/more basic:  I just want the ONE instance, ONE view, on ONE screen--I just want to be able to specify THAT screen, over THERE.

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EDIT:  Oops, nevermind.  I appear to have figured it out.  For future reference and the edification of others:  Start KSP, go to Settings->Graphics, de-select Full Screen, Apply.  Drag the (now-windowed) game window to the secondary monitor, adjust resolution as needed/desired, re-select Full Screen, Apply.  The game will go full-screen on the current (secondary) monitor.  Quit and restart the game to verify that it restarts in full-screen mode on the secondary monitor.

I have not yet shut down and restarted the computer, nor have I unplugged the external monitor, to see if it persists.  I *suspect* it will be necessary to redo this each time I disconnect and then reconnect the secondary monitor, and OBVIOUSLY it will have to be redone if I play KSP on the laptop without the external/secondary monitor.

 

Edited February 16, 2020 by Srpadget
resolved issue myself

[AHHans]

I use Linux not Windows, but even on windows I expect it to be something that is controlled by the OS and not the program (here KSP) itself. So I would look there. (Does Windows have a right-click menu for the "open windows in the tool-bar at the bottom"? (I'm don't know how this it properly called.) I don't expect that you'll have a "Move To Desktop" option there, but maybe there is something useful.)

[Geonovast]

There's no built in setting for this.  People that are doing this are actually running two instances of KSP using a mod that allows them to talk to each other.  So you need to have a fairly good computer for this, even though one of the installs can be stripped down (doesn't need your other mods installed, and you can actually remove all the parts except one.  Last I used this was in 1.4.5, no idea if it'll still work.

 

[Srpadget]

2 minutes ago, Geonovast said:

There's no built in setting for this.  People that are doing this are actually running two instances of KSP using a mod that allows them to talk to each other.  So you need to have a fairly good computer for this, even though one of the installs can be stripped down (doesn't need your other mods installed, and you can actually remove all the parts except one.  Last I used this was in 1.4.5, no idea if it'll still work.

 

Sorry, that's NOT my problem.  the whole point of my first sentence was to say exactly that, and to attempt to avoid getting this answer.  I'll try to figure out how to edit my original post to make that more clear.

[Geonovast]

4 minutes ago, Srpadget said:

Sorry, that's NOT my problem.  the whole point of my first sentence was to say exactly that, and to attempt to avoid getting this answer.  I'll try to figure out how to edit my original post to make that more clear.

Oh!  No no, that's my bad.  My fault for skimming the rest after the first sentence.

[pmborg]

Hello @Srpadget,

You can just:

CTRL+ENTER -> Swap from "fullscreen" to "window" mode, move KSP window to other monitor and then press again CTRL+ENTER to Swap from "window" mode to "fullscreen".

This is an universal feature of DirectX not KSP.

Cheers

[Srpadget]

Just now, pmborg said:

Hello @Srpadget,

You can just:

CTRL+ENTER -> Swap from "fullscreen" to "window" mode, move KSP window to other monitor and then press again CTRL+ENTER to Swap from "window" mode to "fullscreen".

This is an universal feature of DirectX not KSP.

Cheers

Oh, cool!  A vastly-simpler way to do what I kludged together myself as a solution!  (Now if only I can manage to remember it later...)