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Multi-Display overview
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Organization
Multi-Display (MD) content is organized as follows:
Terminology
Throughout these articles, primary and secondary displays are defined as
follows:
- Primary (default) display has the display ID of
DEFAULT_DISPLAY
- Secondary display has a display ID not
DEFAULT_DISPLAY
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Last updated 2025-06-12 UTC.
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