When maximizing a chrome window inside one of the 3 virtual monitors (conf.jpg), the Chrome window maximizes ALMOST COMPLETELY has a transparent border all the way around the window (gap.jpg) which contains a ghost image (incomplete draw) of whatever is behind it, wallpaper or other window (drawing gets stuck as I drag another window through the border).

Running Windows 7 Pro x64
DF Pro Trial v5.1.1 Beta 2
I have a Matrox Triplehead2go hardware VGA device.. which shows up in Windows as a single 4080x768 display (conf.jpg).

Chrome is the ONLY program with this problem. All other window types maximize fully. And Chrome maximizes just fine on my primary 1920x1080 display.
Only when I disable the maximization to the virtual monitor edges, will Chrome maximize without this phantom border... however, this means that it maximizes across all 3 physical screens, which is not acceptable.
This border will appear whether or not I have taskbars enabled.

I have tried adjusting every setting I could find in the GUI, including some registry settings..., to find some combination that would work. Global settings, and application based compatibility settings.

Please help.
Thanks.

Yes, I've tried the default Chrome theme. I've tried many flags that disable Aero, etc.
No change.

Here are maximized browser windows on all screens (1 display, 3 virtual monitors) Chrome and Firefox

On the top 3 virtual monitors, there is ALWAYS a 'light blue' border around the maximized windows. But on Chrome windows, the border drawing doesn't hold, and the border drawing will hang on to windows or desktop images that are behind the maximized window.

It makes sense that my windows are not maximizing the same way on the virtual monitors, as they do on the primary.
Since they cannot maximize that "extra" few pixels, because they would overlap adjacent virtual monitors.

Is it possible (now, or in the next beta) to adjust a "maximization offset"... (kinda like I can adjust the scaling size of the wallpaper in the wallpaper options)? This setting could be in the "monitor configuration" and be available when split monitors are used. Basically increasing the size of the maximized windows in each virtual monitor. There may be some creative ways to deal with the overlap (or I can just get used to overlap).

The other option would be an option to force a solid border around all maximized windows in the virtual monitors... because the distracting part, is that the border drawing in Chrome is buggy.

Thanks... for reasons of virtualization, I would prefer not to have to enable full Aero.

So if your next beta can fix this border with non aero chrome windows... that will be great.

Thank you.

Beta 4 broke the 'maximize window' to virtual monitors (split display)... so I could not even test any changes to this border bug. Beta 5, no change from Beta 3.

Beta 6 broke split screen again.

Yes, maximization withing split monitors is working again. Still no change on the bordering issue with Chrome.

Two questions about what might be on your TO DO List:

Are you considering,
Support for tabbed browsers to be recognized like windows are, and thus subject to window management and split monitor boundaries?
True fullscreen emulation for split monitors. Maximize works bind window frames to the virtual screen, but when I maximize a flash video or media player fullscreen... it spans across?

Is there a web page that lists your TO DO items?
Thanks again.

When I drag a Chrome Tab from its main window on any split monitor ... I would expect that it auto-maximizes on the split monitor that I release it on... but instead, it flickers a bit, then auto-maximizes ALWAYS on split monitor 1.

Ah.... beta 8 beat me to it. Tabs maximize in the correct destination split monitor. Thank you

"Tabs maximize in the correct destination split monitor."

That has been working for 6 months... thanks again.

But no... the Chrome borders on split monitor maximization still exhibit the same symptoms shown and described in the original post.

* on v6.0.0 Beta 7 *

Yes... so close.

I see it working with Chrome sometimes... but fails (back to the original problem) other times.

I can reproduce the fail.. by creating a new tab in Chrome, and dragging it out to the top of split monitor 1 and releasing it at the top edge. The window maximizes with the original problem.

I can reproduce the working fix.. by toggling maximization on other windows. But this is really

On Beta 11 now... still very inconsistent. Most of the time, when the Chrome window maximizes and looks good on that virtual monitor... the edge of the window spills over to the adjacent virtual monitor if there isn't a window already maximized there. Also, dragging the titlebar to the top edge for maximization, 50% of the time, still produces the original problem of that window edge being a graphical artifact.

If it is easier, just for Chrome windows, can you just put a solid border around the window when maximized? Perhaps a color picker to determine the border color, or dynamically sample the title bar color?

The maximization works as a function and feature, just the image looks bad. The border would look better and would really have only a minimal impact on functional space. So it is not as nice as maximizing a non-Chrome window, or a Chrome window on a non-virtual monitor space... but it would look fine.

Thanks for your continued development with this specific bug, you are not un-appreciated.

I can confirm this issue on my triple monitor NVIDIA Surround setup as well, even with the new DisplayFusion 6.0.
Basically the first time Chrome opens it maximizes fine. I can put it into windowed mode and maximize it as many times as I want, and it works. However, once I minimize and then maximize the window two or three times, it will bleed over the edge by few pixels and stay that way until I close it. Visual Studio 2012 is experiencing very similar difficulties with its borders.

I'm running Windows 7 x64 with nearly all visual effects turned off, except for "Show window contents while dragging".

On a slightly unrelated question: I wonder would it be possible to remove those window border decorations when a window is maximized? Because if I turn off the NVIDIA Surround and switch these monitors into separate displays, those borders will not be there when maximized. See the attached image. I only wonder because that decoration is eating up space for absolutely no reason, and it looks rather ugly.

Thank you for your excellent work on DisplayFusion.

"because Windows maximizes applications about 8px past the edge of the screen"
I just had to test this, because it sounds like such an idiotic solution, but that seems to be exactly what Windows does.
I would've guessed that it would just set some "no borders" flag for the window when maximized, but no. The more you know..

In that case it is probably a tall order to get rid of the borders with splitting. Unless there's a way to crop the windows somehow, but that sounds like an operation which would either kill the performance, or is just not possible.

Well, thanks anyway!

I'm so glad this is being worked on. It's driving me nuts using Chrome and not being able to drag from one monitor to another with the number of tabs I normally have open.