Jeffen Nilsson
114 discussion posts
So this is a mess that pops up every couple of months with the latest nvidia driver updates -
My monitors switch IDs.
This is extremely frustrating because when i have hundreds of triggers set up for a specific setup and then all of a sudden that changes, i have to either try the backup i made MONTHS ago and see if that fits, undoing all of my optimizations etc that have been done all that time. OR i can choose to painstakingly go through each and every trigger and fixing the monitor ID.
Sometimes my main monitor is 1, sometimes its 5, sometimes its 3, my auxiliary monitors are just jumping back and forth, my 2 dell monitors also keep changing their IDs with eachother, it drives me mad.
Is there any possibility of giving us a specific identifier for the display itself and not windows/nvidia/displayfusions interpretation of it?
Like say "monitor on displayport input 3 on GPU Nvidia gtx 1080" or something
In the past there hasn't been a reliable way to always identify a specific monitor. There are many monitor/video card/driver combos that mess up or don't return unique device IDs.
It's an interesting thought though, if we're able to do this in the future, we definitely will.
In the meantime, if you use the "Move Window to Specific Size and Location" action in the Trigger rule, instead of the "Selected Monitor" option, those should stay working. They use the relative X,Y values (relative to the top-left corner of the primary monitor), so assuming the actual monitor configuration isn't changing, they should always remain the same.
