DisplayFusion RSS: Monitors displaced and in duplicate mode, after waking up from sleep https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603 DisplayFusion RSS: Monitors displaced and in duplicate mode, after waking up from sleep Fri, 22 May 2026 23:01:01 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603 RE: Monitors displaced and in duplicate mode, after waking up from sleep https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#29 Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:57:41 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#29 DisplayFusion
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Not sure if we can add something like that to the UI, but for now, I've attached a quick and dirty Powershell script that will prompt you for the IDs to swap. Take a backup of your DisplayFusion Settings before you run it for the first time, just in case something goes wrong.

Hope this helps!


Thanks so very much! I'll update the thread with the results when I use it :) ]]> RE: Monitors displaced and in duplicate mode, after waking up from sleep https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#28 Tue, 21 Nov 2023 21:40:42 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#28 DisplayFusion Not sure if we can add something like that to the UI, but for now, I've attached a quick and dirty Powershell script that will prompt you for the IDs to swap. Take a backup of your DisplayFusion Settings before you run it for the first time, just in case something goes wrong.

Hope this helps! ]]> RE: Monitors displaced and in duplicate mode, after waking up from sleep https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#27 Sat, 18 Nov 2023 18:24:44 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#27 DisplayFusion
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Sounds good, thanks David!


If... I may once again (necro) chime in on this issue here. It basically does continue now and again, but I was thinking, in 'Monitor Configuration' one can manually re-arrange the monitors, in case they for example get scrambled and the mouse stops moving seamlessly accross them.

However, no such setting (from what I've searched) exists for the taskbar icons... Which I'd honestly be just about ready to pay $50 for to have implemented. For example in the menu 'Taskbar Shortcuts' — there could perhaps be a button with 'Swap taskbar icons with X monitor'... So that if the monitors get scrambled/jumbled again, I can re-arrange the monitors through 'Monitor Configuration' and then also re-arrange the taskbar icons back in place (inside of the 'Taskbar Shortcuts' menu, or some other one), which is honestly extremely valuable to me. Because after restarting (especially one that is unplanned), it takes an inopportunely long while to set everything back up again. ]]> RE: Monitors displaced and in duplicate mode, after waking up from sleep https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#26 Tue, 10 Nov 2020 15:03:55 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#26 DisplayFusion Sounds good, thanks David! ]]> RE: Monitors displaced and in duplicate mode, after waking up from sleep https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#25 Mon, 09 Nov 2020 20:27:20 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#25 DisplayFusion
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Ah gotcha, unfortunately there probably isn't much we can do from our end if the USB displays aren't properly waking from sleep :(


I mean they do wake up, it's just that sometimes it happens somewhat later. That's when things start going polar... I think I'll try experimenting more with the 'Wait' function and report back if that has or hasn't helped, in the end 🦝 ]]> RE: Monitors displaced and in duplicate mode, after waking up from sleep https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#24 Mon, 09 Nov 2020 16:37:52 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#24 DisplayFusion Ah gotcha, unfortunately there probably isn't much we can do from our end if the USB displays aren't properly waking from sleep :( ]]> RE: Monitors displaced and in duplicate mode, after waking up from sleep https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#23 Fri, 06 Nov 2020 22:27:55 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#23 DisplayFusion
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Which buttons got scrambled again? Was it buttons for running programs, or pinned shortcuts?


Sorry for not making this a bit more clearer... basically the 'screens':

• When for example everything is fine, I've got a distinct taskbar on/for each monitor, and the mouse moves seamlessly between the monitors.

• When things go wrong and e.g., a monitor doesn't wake up from sleep. It doesn't matter if I try put the PC to sleep and then wake it up again or restart DisplayFusion, after logging in. The only thing that helps at this point, is a restart.
To elaborate this, in such a scenario, the mouse no longer moves seamlessly, e.g. I move it to the right and it ends at the top of some monitor, a taskbar is swapped with another somewhere... the program I use for automatic window arrangement moves windows (programs basically) to wrong places; and it's 'one of those mornings again, I say to myself, before getting Ketracel-white (coffeé) ]]> RE: Monitors displaced and in duplicate mode, after waking up from sleep https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#22 Fri, 06 Nov 2020 18:50:52 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#22 DisplayFusion Which buttons got scrambled again? Was it buttons for running programs, or pinned shortcuts? ]]> RE: Monitors displaced and in duplicate mode, after waking up from sleep https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#21 Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:50:25 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#21 DisplayFusion
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Ah, probably a wise choice :)


Yesterday two of my screens went black, while I was away for a bit (the PC didn't go to sleep), so yeah, I guess it is indeed something, with the USB connection or similar.

I put it to sleep and re-awoke it, which resumed the two screens, but the taskbars did get scrambled, of course...

Perhaps sometime in the distant future, it'll be possible to re-arrange them in place somehow, through DisplayFusion... ]]> RE: Monitors displaced and in duplicate mode, after waking up from sleep https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#20 Wed, 28 Oct 2020 01:27:51 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#20 DisplayFusion Ah, probably a wise choice :) ]]> RE: Monitors displaced and in duplicate mode, after waking up from sleep https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#19 Mon, 26 Oct 2020 21:29:01 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#19 DisplayFusion
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Glad to hear it's mostly ok! I've seen some USB adapters (even on systems without DisplayFusion) not wake properly after sleep for sure. Usually unplugging/re-plugging them sorts it out.


Indeed, I usually just restart at that point, to not accidentally knock the monitors down, as I've got them on books and other, questionable things... ]]> RE: Monitors displaced and in duplicate mode, after waking up from sleep https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#18 Mon, 26 Oct 2020 15:34:13 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#18 DisplayFusion Glad to hear it's mostly ok! I've seen some USB adapters (even on systems without DisplayFusion) not wake properly after sleep for sure. Usually unplugging/re-plugging them sorts it out. ]]> RE: Monitors displaced and in duplicate mode, after waking up from sleep https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#17 Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:57:03 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#17 DisplayFusion
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No worries, sounds good!


So things have been going pretty well so far, I have however had an issue today and at an earlier point, where some of the monitors (about 2), wouldn't wake up after sleep. This must seemingly be an issue with the USBs, not reacting/connecting/doing something they should in time, I would assume... ]]> RE: Monitors displaced and in duplicate mode, after waking up from sleep https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#16 Mon, 05 Oct 2020 18:17:37 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#16 DisplayFusion No worries, sounds good! ]]> RE: Monitors displaced and in duplicate mode, after waking up from sleep https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#15 Mon, 05 Oct 2020 14:51:26 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#15 DisplayFusion
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If you add a "Wait" action before the "Load Monitor Profile" action in the rule that's set to run when the computer wakes from sleep, does that help at all? You can try setting it to 10000 ms or something like that to start.


Added the wait action, gonna report back on how that works out for me... might of course take a while, since this does happen like maybe once every 2 weeks, or something of the sort... thanks for the tip by the way! ]]> RE: Monitors displaced and in duplicate mode, after waking up from sleep https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#14 Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:23:29 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#14 DisplayFusion If you add a "Wait" action before the "Load Monitor Profile" action in the rule that's set to run when the computer wakes from sleep, does that help at all? You can try setting it to 10000 ms or something like that to start. ]]> RE: Monitors displaced and in duplicate mode, after waking up from sleep https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#13 Wed, 23 Sep 2020 16:35:35 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#13 DisplayFusion
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No worries, keep me posted :)


Hello,

So it ended up happening again today, unfortunately. Seemingly with no user error present this time (hopefully anyway)…

It's almost as though the monitors sometimes, need a bit more time to wake up from sleep. Which they do eventually of course, but by that time, it's as though something malfunctions/crashes and basically the following pattern emerges:

• PC wakes up from sleep through a user trigger ➔
• Monitors take a bit longer than usual to 'wake up' ➔
• Something goes wrong, and the monitors duplicate ➔
• When one restarts DisplayFusion, the taskbars becomes scrambled, or I guess one can say the monitors themselves do...

It would be nice if one could somehow force them to recalibrate to their proper position again, or prevent this outright, somehow. But for now, only a restart seems to 'help'…

Now I did turn off some settings, as displayed on the image below, because I didn't really find them to be related to this issue, per se. Perhaps I'm wrong? I always only manually put the computer to sleep and wake it up; as in, there is no setting that makes the PC go to sleep after X amount of time

https://i.imgur.com/mvsvJwD.jpg


Kind regards,
David ]]> RE: Monitors displaced and in duplicate mode, after waking up from sleep https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#12 Mon, 14 Sep 2020 19:13:38 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#12 DisplayFusion No worries, keep me posted :) ]]> RE: Monitors displaced and in duplicate mode, after waking up from sleep https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#11 Sat, 12 Sep 2020 11:46:52 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#11 DisplayFusion
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The "System Wakes from Sleep" trigger event should do the job :)


Reporting back. Since implementing this fix, the issue hasn't reappeared!

However, a much smaller issue I'm having right now after sleep, is the displacement of a pinned taskbar icon (the green iris-esque icon), which I often use with a macro.

No other pinned taskbar icons (or non-pinned for that matter), seem to get displaced...

Before:
https://i.imgur.com/K9fnqJC.jpg

After sleep:
https://i.imgur.com/MkPKkfa.jpg


Speak of the devil, the duplicate issue did actually occur again today, after all this time... 😔

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I've recently changed my monitor profile, and the aforementioned trigger got reset, so I'm gonna wait and see, and then finally report back again... pardon my lack of consideration ]]> RE: Monitors displaced and in duplicate mode, after waking up from sleep https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#10 Fri, 11 Sep 2020 17:40:47 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#10 DisplayFusion
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If you pin that button as a shortcut on the taskbar, does that stop it from moving on sleep/resume?


Hm, not sure.

I have however solved this by moving the icon to the right place, after a restart, where it since has stayed, after several wakeups. I guess as long as some problematic program is shut down, the placement of the taskbar icon, does indeed save accordingly... ]]> RE: Monitors displaced and in duplicate mode, after waking up from sleep https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#9 Thu, 10 Sep 2020 19:06:16 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#9 DisplayFusion If you pin that button as a shortcut on the taskbar, does that stop it from moving on sleep/resume? ]]> RE: Monitors displaced and in duplicate mode, after waking up from sleep https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#8 Wed, 09 Sep 2020 19:51:57 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#8 DisplayFusion
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The "System Wakes from Sleep" trigger event should do the job :)


Reporting back. Since implementing this fix, the issue hasn't reappeared!

However, a much smaller issue I'm having right now after sleep, is the displacement of a pinned taskbar icon (the green iris-esque icon), which I often use with a macro.

No other pinned taskbar icons (or non-pinned for that matter), seem to get displaced...

Before:
https://i.imgur.com/K9fnqJC.jpg

After sleep:
https://i.imgur.com/MkPKkfa.jpg
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The "System Wakes from Sleep" trigger event should do the job :)


Sorry, my bad. Will report back how it goes later on ]]> RE: Monitors displaced and in duplicate mode, after waking up from sleep https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#6 Mon, 24 Aug 2020 20:37:45 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#6 DisplayFusion The "System Wakes from Sleep" trigger event should do the job :) ]]> RE: Monitors displaced and in duplicate mode, after waking up from sleep https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#5 Sat, 22 Aug 2020 16:47:53 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/monitors-displaced-and-in-duplicate-mode-after-waking-up-from-sleep/?ID=ab9bd021-8243-48a1-a4aa-8efa09875603#5 DisplayFusion
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You could create a rule on the Settings > Triggers tab that uses the "Computer wakes from sleep" trigger event, and then do Add > Run Function > Load Monitor Profile to have it loaded automatically. Note that it would try to load that profile any time it wakes from sleep though, even if the dock isn't connected.


Thanks for the reply Keith! I'll do that and report back if this has helped. Might take a while to fully test it though...

Which event should I pick in here by the way?
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