https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=e0d04ab3-527d-4f3a-8aaa-989da403734c DisplayFusion RSS: Restore window positions due to DisplayPort disconnect. Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:35:05 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=e0d04ab3-527d-4f3a-8aaa-989da403734c https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/restore-window-positions-due-to-displayport-disconnect/?ID=e0d04ab3-527d-4f3a-8aaa-989da403734c#7 Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:44:24 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/restore-window-positions-due-to-displayport-disconnect/?ID=e0d04ab3-527d-4f3a-8aaa-989da403734c#7 DisplayFusion I did find a solution to this (sorry, very late in posting the solution).

You need to create a "Window Position Profile" and add all the windows you care about. I have assigned a hot key and it works well. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/restore-window-positions-due-to-displayport-disconnect/?ID=e0d04ab3-527d-4f3a-8aaa-989da403734c#6 Tue, 14 Apr 2020 20:26:05 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/restore-window-positions-due-to-displayport-disconnect/?ID=e0d04ab3-527d-4f3a-8aaa-989da403734c#6 DisplayFusion There are a couple of things you can do to try to make it more reliable:

• Update to the latest DisplayFusion beta, and enable the "Don't run this trigger when the desktop is locked" option in the rule for saving the window positions.
• Increase the interval to 120 or 180.

Hope that helps! ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/restore-window-positions-due-to-displayport-disconnect/?ID=e0d04ab3-527d-4f3a-8aaa-989da403734c#5 Fri, 10 Apr 2020 14:27:08 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/restore-window-positions-due-to-displayport-disconnect/?ID=e0d04ab3-527d-4f3a-8aaa-989da403734c#5 DisplayFusion Hmm, not that succesful. Only works sometimes.... ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/restore-window-positions-due-to-displayport-disconnect/?ID=e0d04ab3-527d-4f3a-8aaa-989da403734c#4 Mon, 06 Apr 2020 15:16:56 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/restore-window-positions-due-to-displayport-disconnect/?ID=e0d04ab3-527d-4f3a-8aaa-989da403734c#4 DisplayFusion I found a solution.

1. Create a monitor profile for your normal state (all monitors on).
2. Create a "Timer Interval" trigger, interval is 60 seconds with Monitor profile created above selected. Add a "Save Window Positions" function.
3. Create a "Monitor Profile Changed" trigger with Monitor profile created above selected. Add a "Restore Window Positions From Last Save" function.

This works but sometimes the restored windows are sitting under the task bar. Maybe a short delay before the restore will fix this. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/restore-window-positions-due-to-displayport-disconnect/?ID=e0d04ab3-527d-4f3a-8aaa-989da403734c#3 Mon, 06 Apr 2020 14:05:10 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/restore-window-positions-due-to-displayport-disconnect/?ID=e0d04ab3-527d-4f3a-8aaa-989da403734c#3 DisplayFusion Thanks for your input. I am waiting to see if DF have any ideas. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/restore-window-positions-due-to-displayport-disconnect/?ID=e0d04ab3-527d-4f3a-8aaa-989da403734c#2 Sun, 05 Apr 2020 12:41:52 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/restore-window-positions-due-to-displayport-disconnect/?ID=e0d04ab3-527d-4f3a-8aaa-989da403734c#2 DisplayFusion Hello,

I faced a similar problem at work. My employer will force an idle monitor power off in the BIOS, and DisplayFusion was the only way I could find around it.

My solution was to get the applications situated as I wanted them and then to save them as a "Windows Position Profile". I also bound "Alt+Ctrl+F1" as a hotkey to restore my windows after I logged back in.

After a lot of research, This appears to be a Win10 bug for Display Port connections. When I had a similar 3 monitor setup, I had no problems with D-DVI connections. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/restore-window-positions-due-to-displayport-disconnect/?ID=e0d04ab3-527d-4f3a-8aaa-989da403734c Sat, 04 Apr 2020 14:15:43 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/restore-window-positions-due-to-displayport-disconnect/?ID=e0d04ab3-527d-4f3a-8aaa-989da403734c DisplayFusion Hi,

DisplayPort has an irritating problem, in that, when the display is disconnected (power plan switches monitor off or physically switched off), MS Windows re-arranges all the windows on to the other monitors (I have 4) in a random fashion.

I have not been able to find a fix for this DisplayPort madness so I am trying to get DF to help me out. I see there is a function "Save Window Positions" that I have been playing with.

Is there any way I can automate this?

Note that my PC never sleeps but I do switch the monitors off at night and the power plan also switches the monitors off after 15 minutes.

I would like DF to save the positions on detecting that the monitor has disconnected and restore the saved window positions on reconnect.

As a test I used a timer to save the window postions and a hotkey to restore from last save. This works but I would prefer to automate the process if possible.

Any ideas on how to do this?

Thanks

Mark. ]]>