I have 4 of my monitors configured with screen savers, and the other 3 set to "No screen saver".

To my mind, "No Screen Saver" should mean that the desktop and application windows on those monitors remain visible when the other monitors go into screen saver mode. This is what I need - for 3 monitors (which in my application show status windows that always need to be visible) to keep showing the desktop and applications, while the ones that have screen savers enabled do their screen saving thing.

But in practice, what happens is the 3 monitors set to "No screensaver" go blank as soon as the timeout happens and the 4 monitors configured with screensavers go into screensaver mode.

Seems like a bug to me. Am I missing something? Is there a way to configure it for what I want?

Thanks,
ET

Keith,

Thanks for the reply. Understood and the rationale makes sense.

So here's my new request: Span a screensaver across a group of monitors (but not all monitors). That would solve my problem.

Here is my configuration: 3x1 Portrait configuration runs VMware Workstation. Then on both left and right, there are stacks of 2-high vertical landscape monitors (total 7 monitors, 4 landscape on the sides stacked 2 high, and 3 portrait in the middle). What looks awesome is to put individual photo screensavers on each of the 4 landscape monitors, then stretch a single photo screensaver across the 3 middle portrait monitors. (3x1 portrait is about the same aspect ratio as normal landscape).

Because you only span across ALL monitors, what I was trying to do was run the landscape screensavers in the host machine and then run DF again on the VM in full span mode. (The VM is only 3 monitors wide). But a more elegant way to solve the same need would be if you allowed me to choose the 3 center monitors to span a screensaver across, then put individual screensavers on the left and right vertical monitor stacks. Make sense?

Thanks,
ET

Thanks so much, Keith!

I'm brand new to DisplayFusion and Binary Fortress, but so far I'm very impressed with your support responsiveness. Please keep up the great work and I look forward to this new feature.

What would be even better-er would be if you could create multiple monitor groups. In other words, span one screensaver across these 3 monitors, then another across these other two monitors, and still another across the remaining two monitors... I imagine being able to multi-select monitors in the console view and use some kind of "create screensave span group" function to group the selected monitors together for spanning the screensaver.

Thanks again for the excellent support!

ET