Hi, using DisplayFusion for about a year now with my 34" 21:9 monitor to make better use of the available screen. Great program!
Am thinking about buying an OLED TV as monitor - probably I'm not the only one. Currently OLED screens have two problems in that scenario:
a) a 55" screen is very (too) big
b) burn-in is an issue in that scenario.
So offering special features that try to mitigate these problems could be an interesting selling point for an application like DisplayFusion.
For a we already have good solutions, allowing to define screen areas that don't fill the whole screen. So we can position windows in the comfort zones of the screen - having a big area doesn't mean it has to be used from end to end in all cases.
Not using the full area would also bring an additional advantage: The unused borders would allow to move the windows around slowly (following a pattern that the same virtual pixel is mapped to different real pixels as much as possible).
Of course this wouldn't give any guarantees (which you should clearly indicate so people don't even consider to sue you if they have burn-in problems). The risk is always on the side of the OLED buyer.
But it could be a super helpful feature that could be a lot more effective than the "few-pixels-shift" that the TVs do by themselves! (When allowing bigger borders).
Wouldn't work for fullscreen, but that should be ok - the most dangerous scenarios are probably stationary windows for office-style "non-movie/game" usage.
What do you think? Sounds like an idea?

Edit: Another useful feature along the same lines could be a "theme morpher/changer": If different colors are used for borders etc. it could further reduce overproportional usage of the same subpixels.

Thanks for considering!
Perhaps there could be an "OLED precaution mode" that can be enabled with one check-box that
a) disables all wallpapers (black)
b) sets task bars to auto-hide
c) hides all desktop icons
d) does the window-move thing
e) sets screen saver (black) to 5 min activation time
No guarantees, but this could be quite helpful already! (All but the window move stuff can essentially also be achieved without a dedicated program like DisplayFusion - but it wouldn't hurt to have such a one-click option.
All the best!

Apologies to zombie a thread but wanted to say I think NothanUmber's points here are still relevant if not more so! I've been using my OLED TV for a monitor off and on for a while now and plan to almost continually use OLED when LG releases the 42" 4k panels in 2022.
DF is already crucial for providing monitor profiles and awesome wallpaper tools that relieve my OCD from burn-in anxiety but would love to vote for making any sort of script or feature for the increasing amount of OLED screen users concerned about burn in.
Long time user, adore the product!

Same for me, I plan on buying an OLED TV as a monitor and play in window-mode, at least for Strategy games with quite fixed UI. This feature would be so valuable at increasing the monitor's lifespan and would be an instant buy

Yep, same. Planning on getting an oled as pc monitor for gaming and work. Moving window capability to reduce burn-in would be awesome.

Except for the pixel shifting, there is nothing @NothanUmber suggests that you can't do now.

a) You can set the screensaver to blank or create a black image file to match your display's resolution.

b) Autohiding the task bar isn't enough because Windows leaves a 2 pixel line at the bottom. A program like ShyBar will hide that as well.

c) I have all desktop icons hidden all the time and have for years because the organization is a mess and they are distracting. I use Start Menu X/10 because it alphabetizes everything in one list so is fast to use. So I have a blank screen until I press the Windows key.

d) No pixel shifting in Windows yet. But, OLED TV's have a built-in option to pixel shift static images to reduce burn-in problems (at least newer ones do, mine's three years old). There is also a Refresh option in the Settings that does some behind-the-scenes magic. Takes about an hour to run and I use it ~twice a year. I don't know the impact of pixel shifting on games with static images. An action scene on a 4K screen I wouldn't think would be impacted much/if at all because thumbs and joysticks don't have that kind of control/resolution. Eyes do, thumbs don't.

Also, keep in mind there are static images, and there are static images. Airport displays never change except for a few characters on flight numbers, times, gates, and so on. Fatal for today's OLEDs. Using a program or game for a couple hours, then doing other things that are non-static, is very different. An airport OLED might last a few weeks or months. A game display, probably a lot longer. And if it lasts three years, how long do you typically keep your game monitor? Probably better to just view it as you do the console, as something that gets updated and replaced every few years.

e) You can set the screensaver time-to-activate to anything you want today.

I don't know which screensaver is better for OLED screens, black (blank) or a changing image. With old LED displays susceptible to burn-in, a changing image was best. Anyone know about this for OLED's?

All this is a long-winded way of saying that this issue is probably better handled by a monitor driver from the manufacturer, the game/program itself, or Windows. DF seems to me like the wrong place.

well, from what I've read/watched/listened to (I have not yet pulled the trigger on getting an oled tv/monitor) the native pixel shift implementation on such TVs is on the order of a few pixels and would somewhat blur the image-retention/burn-in, softening the hard edges. From my understanding if an application displayed on your screen contains, say, a bright region 100pixels wide, then the pixel shift would only move that region sufficiently to relieve the strain on the pixels at it's edge. I'm interested in a feature that would move the windows independently and substantially, if slowly, over time, ... I'm talking dozens to hundreds of pixels of movement, maybe bound to a region determined by the original location of the windows with some user-defined margin. Now maybe such motion would be problematic for UX reasons I haven't thought of and maybe pixel burn-in just isn't enough of a problem anymore to bother with this kind of solution, but that's where I'm coming from

I agree with Hoser's most recent take. IMO the biggest thing anyone can do to prevent OLED burn in is to be very mindful of brightness levels, if DF ever dips into HDR detection in its monitor profiles keeping OLED in mind when they design the UI would be great/much appreciated. HDR is max brightness and absolutely ups the game on how long something can be on the screen before it starts to offset things.
I do agree that DF shouldn't do all the heavy lifting for OLED panel remediation but I do think a lot of OLED friendly things can be in DF's wheelhouse. My main tool against burn in at the moment when I use it on my living room TV is DF - rotating backgrounds, some windows set ups where the task bar is flipped, items that Sandman recommended, etc. Things Hoser mentions would definitely be a good/great help at least for those of us with OCD burn in.
So I'm not asking for so much a feature request as asking for the developers to be aware that OLED as computer monitors is becoming a bigger thing. Anyway they can augment OLED stuff into their product design philosophy would be great. We're seeing a good bit of OLED laptops start to come out and I think we'll start to see some 42" OLED official desktop monitors in 2022 (based on the upcoming LG manufacturing of 42") with the market exploding in 2023 (as Samsung will officially be in the fray at that point as well).
Sandman, I've found the 2 pixel bar isn't nearly as bad as I had anticipated, especially if it's an LG panel - those have a white element in the RGB array and the bar peak is light grey so even in HDR mode it'd be difficult to make a dent. Smaller OLED displays (like my oled tablet where I use Moonlight to remote into my desktop) would be more effected by that small grey bar I think.
From what I've read it's better to have a rotating image / screensaver up, simply because it helps evenly wear the panel. The auto pixel refreshers (the ones that run when the TV is on standby, every 4 hours of watching and then a big one every 2k hours) seem to be a big part of what is keeping burn in away and I think it has an easier time of it if it has hundreds/thousands of hours of wear to evaluate rather than the occasional bit of light when you're actively using it. Not positive on that point, however.

Hi everyone. I have made a small program to move windows around and I believe greatly extend OLED monitors lifespan. On my 1080p monitor the movement is a bit too noticeable, especially when looking at the edges of the screen. Please try it out and tell me what you think

https://github.com/Leni-Vienne/window-mover-for-OLED/

I have use AutoHotKey for this. I'm new to it so I don't know if the compiled .exe file will work without AHK installed.

You are friggin' AWESOME. I'll try and utilize it and build it into my workflow by the end of the week. Will report back, thanks mate!

Have you been able to use it ? How has been your experience and with what kind of monitor ?
I also need those purchase advice lol

Just made an account to thank you for your work on that program. Will be using it every day, however, I am looking into possibly making some modifications. Or if you were looking to improve it I might recommend making the speed and length of intervals customizable.

upvote here for the oled check option. really the only thing new would be the window movement(which was said to be easy) the other stuff would just trigger things that windows can already do just in a one stop shop type selection.