https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8 DisplayFusion RSS: Force full screen to only virtual monitor Sat, 09 May 2026 15:42:34 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#40 Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:04:31 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#40 DisplayFusion Ha! Good luck -- I've been waiting 7 years. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#39 Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:12:58 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#39 DisplayFusion +1! This is a much needed feature. I plan to buy the product as soon as it is implemented. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#38 Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:33:47 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#38 DisplayFusion +1 vote ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#37 Thu, 29 Jan 2026 01:44:31 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#37 DisplayFusion Hear, hear! ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#36 Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:17:47 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#36 DisplayFusion Please add my vote for this feature! ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#35 Fri, 11 Apr 2025 20:25:36 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#35 DisplayFusion Unfortunately we don't have any contacts at Microsoft, and I suspect if they were to add an API for this, they would just add support for it built-in to Windows

At any rate, we've added these votes to the open request. If we can implement it in a future version we will be sure to post an update here. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#34 Fri, 11 Apr 2025 19:23:38 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#34 DisplayFusion Hey I just want to add that I purchased a 32:9 ultrawide being certain that you could split it into 2 virtual monitors with the likes of DF. I am still baffled that its not possible at all.

I also see that this has been a feature request for 10+ years now. Could you do the entire ultrawide community a favor and try to find some solution? Maybe also use your reach to have Microsoft change/expose something. I understand that it is currently not possible to do, but if some devs could change something about it I guess it would be the most prominent tool for display management, rigth? ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#33 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 13:18:15 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#33 DisplayFusion Additional INFO - I'm testing VDM for last several days for a buissness purpose, and what I have learned that might help you.
Tested on DELL Precision Laptop with Dell 4K screen.
Screen has been splitted to 4 smaller (2 by 2)
VDM works fine with Excel, Word, Outlook, Edge, Chrome, Youtube all of them in Full Screen. That includes YT/Chrome/Edge 4 instances as Full Screen - see attachment as proof.

UDM - is like most available softwares upgraded and more fancy Power Tools / Split Screen with a lot of nice settings that might help a lot of people - unfortunately Full Screen option is rising on demand due to requirements of the market in programming and viewing different types of data in various industries.

This option should be implemented to all of the software whatever it is - Power Tool, UDM, VDM or any other. Whoever will do it first with full implementation - will grab huge chunk of the market.

And in my opinione it is something to "fight" for.

Unfortunately - VDM doesnt work for what I needed.... yet. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#32 Tue, 04 Feb 2025 04:34:39 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#32 DisplayFusion To clarify the ishadow.com VDM solution will allow you to maximize full screen ONE (1) display and depending on your setup it is possible to also enable ONE (1) full screen Virtual display inside of a split regardless of the number of splits you create. So best case scenario is that 2 splits will be ablet run true full screen apps.

This is however very dependent on the program. Scenarios which will not work is using one program to have two full screen windows. For instance... You couldnot have two Chrome F11 full screen windows as when you try to enable the second one the first one will revert to non full screen. However you may be able to utilize two different browser engines in order to accomplish this like say Chrome/Opera/Brave and Firefox/Waterfox.

The same is the case for applications that have multiple windows.

YMMV for sure with this and deoending on your etup this might not even work as stated above. in which case I recommend simply utilizing maximized window state and hiding the windows UI elements with autohotkey. Unless you have very unique programs with their own very custom UI this is probably the solution for most people looking to accomplish "full screen" segmented splits. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#31 Tue, 04 Feb 2025 04:23:39 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#31 DisplayFusion I have confirmed that this is a limitation with the windows display manager that can not be remedied by third party utilities and must be updated by Microsoft.
The ckosest thing I have found to a workaround is using the utilities from ishadow.com. A combination of virtual display manager and VDM SAndbox seems to enable the use case some are asking for. Again however there is a limitation of only one virtual display in the windows display manager system.

Another option would be to utilize Virtual Machines to run instances of separate OS installations and then having those VMs borderless window. There are a few ways of doing this, but editing the window viewable UI assets with autihotkey is my preferred method as it is easily made a toggle those less automatated than you may want after say a reboot as would have to initialize all of the VMs again, toggle each window border/titlebars, and perhaps lock movement of certain windows using other utilities.

For everyone looking at just having a borderless floating Youtube video window you can utilize Youtube Enhancer extension in Chrome to enable popout PIP window. Instead, however, I would recommend switching to Opera or more specifically Opera GX and the popout function for video playback is by far the best without any extension needed in the Opera GX browser. You can also pin it to make sure it stays on top of any window you may open afterward.

Hope this helps some people! ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#30 Mon, 03 Feb 2025 20:44:30 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#30 DisplayFusion GAh, I spent $5k having a 55" commercial grade touch screen flush mounted and now I find out that display fusion woin't let you split a monitor into several monitors. WTF is the point of this? It's not any better than fancy zones. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#29 Fri, 06 Sep 2024 18:50:37 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#29 DisplayFusion @Djotta: We don't promise anywhere that it's able to constrain full screen windows, in fact the feature page includes this text: "Note: It's not currently possible to constrain full screen videos or full screen games to monitor splits." ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#28 Mon, 02 Sep 2024 13:51:39 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#28 DisplayFusion I buyed Display Fusion for this feature, and now I see that it doesent support. This is a fraud because you have free programs doing the same thing. And when I see that this has been draging for 10 years, it is shameful! ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#27 Fri, 19 Jul 2024 10:42:55 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#27 DisplayFusion Could I please add myself to the list of people interested in this feature being added. I have two ultrawide monitors, side by side. I split them in various ways using DF and it's invaluable for doing so. However, VMWare is a problem, as is VLC in full screen, and stuff like Youtube. Mostly I don't want a 3440x1440 video, especially when I'm used to most apps maximising to my monitor profile splits. It can be quite disorientating for a moment or so ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#26 Sat, 22 Jun 2024 07:45:03 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#26 DisplayFusion Hi there,

I just wanted to add my voice in support of this feature request. It’s very important to me! I often watch YouTube videos and play games, and I prefer not to have them take up the entire screen.

Thank you! ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#25 Fri, 08 Mar 2024 20:40:02 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#25 DisplayFusion @kai22: This hasn't yet been added, no ETA at the moment. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#24 Fri, 08 Mar 2024 17:50:43 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#24 DisplayFusion Hi I would like to know if there has been an update regarding this. I currently own Display Fusion and would like to create splits so that F11 (fullscreen) works with Opera GX and Ableton Live 12.
Currently, maximizing works fine inside of splits, but the fullscreen F11 functionality still ignores splits. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#23 Tue, 03 May 2022 13:36:28 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#23 DisplayFusion Agreed - Massive issue and Display Fusion needs to do a better job of supporting its paying customers. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#22 Fri, 29 Apr 2022 14:23:59 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#22 DisplayFusion It doesn't seem like there's any intention of adding this -- it's been requested multiple times for years now. As a Pro (paying) customer, it would be nice if feature requests would actually be acted on at some point. We know it's possible because VDM can do it. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#21 Fri, 29 Apr 2022 14:14:23 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#21 DisplayFusion I've seen threads about this topic here since 2014. I'd love to buy this, but only for one reason and that's fullscreen with splits. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#20 Fri, 01 Apr 2022 18:54:35 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#20 DisplayFusion No update and no ETA on it, sorry! ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#19 Thu, 31 Mar 2022 15:22:03 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#19 DisplayFusion Any Updates on this? Its been requested for 8 years now from prior feeds. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#18 Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:18:28 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#18 DisplayFusion Thanks, for info. If DF will not implement this feature - will buy VDM, but I like DF and hope for a solution ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#17 Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:02:38 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#17 DisplayFusion Just FYI, I've stopped using VDM and DF together. I think they may have been stepping on each other -- I was seeing some strange behavior. I basically just gave up on full-screen splits. I made this DF request years ago, so it doesn't seem like it's going to happen. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#16 Tue, 26 Oct 2021 15:46:57 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/force-full-screen-to-only-virtual-monitor/?ID=73137995-8af7-4c1f-8f9f-5920f78e6ec8#16 DisplayFusion @Keith: will buy DF immediately after this feature will be added! Thank you! ]]>