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Asto

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Hey everyone.
Currently I'm evaluating Display Fusion for my Simpit with multiple displays. With the display configuration profiles and triggers it looks very promising, but is there any way to trigger an action or better the sequence of actions manually by a desktop shortcut?

I want to accomplish the following:

Switch do the monitor configuration xy
Wait until everything is settled
Start the game / process z

That works with triggers, but right now my workaround is to name a folder on my Desktop "Start Game Z" and I have a trigger set up wenn a new Explorer window opens with the title "Start Game Z" the trigger gets triggered.

But I would love to trigger this with a simple command line argument / desktop shortcut or similar. Any better ideas?

Dec 21, 2022 (modified Dec 21, 2022) • #1

It sounds like you could do this all in one trigger when launching your monitor profile with the following steps:

1) Create your monitor profile and add a key combination to launch it, or launch it from the tray menu/settings window
2) Create a scripted function that launches your application. Here's an example of a line that would launch Notepad:

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BFS.Application.Start("C:\\Program Files\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe");

3) Create a trigger that uses the "Monitor profile changed" event, and add in the monitor profile you created in step 1. You can then add the script you created in step 2 in the "Actions" pane to launch the program. You can also add a wait timer first so there's a delay before it launches the app, if you want to give it a few seconds to apply.

Hope that helps!

Dec 21, 2022 • #2

Asto

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Thank you,
that's an idea without the hack to open folders. Would require duplicating the display configurations for each game but that wouldn't be too bad I guess. And at least I could use hotkeys or the context menu then, even though I would prefer Desktop shortcuts :)

And we are talking about less than 5 games :D

The script in step 2) isn't needed, is it? There seems to be a custom function that can start processes / executables (not sure what the proper english translation is). Or is there any difference to your script internaly?

Dec 22, 2022 (modified Dec 22, 2022) • #3

Yep you can use a custom function too, either one would work