I frequently have something going, say in a browser, and want to open another window on a different monitor to do something else at the same time.

If I go to a different monitor and open the browser it pops to whatever monitor the current instance is already on.

Any way to make it stay where I opened it?

Thanks

Okay, that worked, but I was looking for a more general thing to make anything I run on a monitor, stay on that monitor.

If this isn't a thing I can survive it. Just something that makes sense. You go to a certain monitor to run something, you expect it to run there, lol.

Thanks.

I think you misunderstand me. Three monitors. Firefox open on monitor two (center one.)
Want to see something on a different site at the same time, making a tab the wrong choice.
Click start button on monitor 3 click Firefox.
Firefox opens on monitor 3, then jumps to monitor 2 because that's where Firefox is already running.

I want it to stay on monitor 3.

Keeping the mouse on the desired monitor has no effect if Firefox is already open on another monitor. If it isn't, the app opens in the correct place.

Windows 7, the last good one they made. They'll have to pry it from my cold dead CPU.

Already had it on, also tried with the 'only star menu' option.

As requested.

Opened Firefox from the far left monitor start button at 17:48, it opened on the far right monitor, where a window already existed.

A quick Google search will answer your question:

<quote>
You can use the -no-remote command line option to start a new Firefox process that is invisible to the first process. [1] By using -no-remote along with the -P option to select a different profile, you can open multiple instances of Firefox at the same time, using separate profiles.

Opening a new instance of Firefox with another profile - MozillaZine

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Opening_a_new_instance_of_Firefox_with_another_profile

<endquote>

Also try:

http://www.filecritic.com/how-to-run-multiple-instances-of-firefox-at-the-same-time/

What trigger rule?

Sorry for the delay, I had to move.

That worked. However, now, when I close a window, the next window to go active moves to the monitor the mouse is on, lol.

I corrected it by adding the "Once per window" condition.

Thanks again for the help!

Hey guys

I stumbled on this thread and was curious if there was a way to "lock" the window sizing when displayed on the monitor?

For instance on one of my monitors I use it as a "quick glance control center" with my LogMeIn client and RingCentral app on top of each other sharing the screen at 50% each. (They take up say 500 pixels wide and then divide the height by 50%)

yes, yes, and yes -- i'd like to be able to launch it to the remembered size, if that makes sense, not necessarily lock it, because id resize at some point

OK, I want something similar, but I think it's different. When I launch an application by launching a file (e.g. something.docx) I want Word to launch with a specified window size and position on a specified monitor. Is this possible with DF somehow? Basically I want to set a rule that says "whenever this app starts, position it here..."

From the above, I see how to write a script that launches an app and positions it, but I don't want to write a script for every file I might want to launch

Thanks

Wow, years later I get to read this and it has solved my Google Chrome window launch problem that has bugged me for months and months.

I have several Google Chrome windows open simulataneously, each with several tabs (logically separated into different topics).

The problem is that if you launch another Chrome windows it places it on the monitor where the MOST RECENT such windows is (or was, if you have minimised it) - and at the same size too.

So I have Internet radio playing in a smallish window on my left monitor. I launch another window and it gets place effectively on top of this window. Not what I want at all, as I have to drag it to the correct (right, main) monitor and resize it too.

Now by adding two trigger rules, I told DF to move any such Chrome window to the window with the cursor in it and then resize it to a 75% window.

Brilliant. Thank you Binary Fortress.

Just wanted to add my thanks Keith (and to dsb9938 for posting the original question and for adding his "Once per Window" condition insight).

Loving DisplayFusion (trial with a 30 day Pro license right now).

Actually, either would be very useful. For the most part, I mean launch Word in the same location on the same monitor each time, but I can also see a use for launching a specific document in a specific location, though since that is a particular document, it could be done easily with a specific launch shortcut or rule I would think. So the main need I think is to "launch any word doc in a new word instance, in a specific location on a specific monitor".

I'm evaluating DF, and this is one of the criteria I'm considering. Have you made any progress on the subject? It doesn't seem so difficult to make it a context menu choice when launching a program.

Keith the image you posted in Comment #19 got me going today (I wanted PDF documents to always open on one specific monitor out of three, no matter how I opened them (double-clicked/Ctrl-O from Acrobat). I was close but I didn't have the asterisk wildcard for the process. I added that and it worked. Just posting here too in case someone else searches similarly. Thanks!

Good morning to all. I am having a similiar situation as the OP with Chrome windows. I have 3 monitors, may main monitor (1), my second monitor on the left (2) and my third monitor on the right (3). I have Chrome pinned to all 3 taskbars. I have the option in settings checked to open applications on the current monitor as well.

If Chrome is open on either monitor 2 or 3 and I want to open Chrome on monitor 1, it doesn't work. If I close all Chrome windows on all monitors and want to open Chrome on my main monitor, the laptop, I have to drag it from the monitor from where closed Chrome, whether it be 2 or 3. BUT if I open Chrome from the taskbar shortcut on the monitor, it WILL open on THAT monitor.

Another example... let's say I close Chrome on monitor 2. If I go to monitor 3 and open Chrome, Chrome actually opens on monitor 2 where the last Chrome instance was located but then it snaps by itself over to monitor 3, where I was attempting to open it. This instance is also true in the reverse, if I close Chrome on 3 and then go to open it on 2, Chrome opens on 2 and then snaps over to 3 by itself. The ONLY way to open Chrome on my main monitor on the laptop is to drag the last open window of Chrome to my laptop main monitor and the next time I open Chrome from my laptop's taskbar it will open there. Also, if I open Chrome from the taskbar of monitor 2 or 3, JUST THAT ONE TIME, Chrome will open on the main monitor 1 and then snap to the monitor from where Chrome was opened, after that Chrome will no longer flash nor open on laptop monitor because it has been opened on one of the other 2 monitors.

Thanks for your reply! I just implemented it and it works just fine. I will say that IMHO this should be fixed, I mean that's what the option is for in Settings, right?

Yes, I can understand that, but then it STILL isn't working correctly. Because after receiving your reply, I deleted the trigger, shut down all chrome processes and Chrome STILL WON´T open on the main monitor UNLESS the last instance of chrome was closed on that monitor. Secondly, there IS NO REASON for that option to even exist if it was laid out that way, it's NOT logical. If I have Chrome pinned to each taskbar, Chrome should open on the monitor where I pressed the shortcut, it's that simple.

I have now noticed other behavior that needs tweaking... let's say I open a weblink from another application and I have 3 instances of Chrome running, one on each monitor... I would think that the weblink would open on the Chrome instance on the same monitor. Sadly, it's not like that. The weblink opens on the monitor where the last instance of Chrome was opened. Example... Chrome on all 3 monitors... I open a PDF that has a weblink on my main monitor... the last Chrome windows that was opened is on monitor 3... when I click that link it opens on monitor 3, not the Chrome on my main monitor...

Just for the sake of it, I went through this scenario and actually went to the task manager and made sure that Chrome.exe was no longer running after shutting down all Chrome windows. The bug persists... a NEW instance of Chrome without the programmed trigger is going to open on the monitor where Chrome was last used.

Secondly, your reply makes no reference to what I noticed about links not opening on the monitor where they originate.

So, you may want to revise your reply and say that is SUPPOSED to work that way because I have just laid out that IT DOES NOT WORK that way.

Just wanted to say thank you to Keith for answering this question because it was exactly what I wanted as well!