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SurfRat
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Hi,

DisplayPort has an irritating problem, in that, when the display is disconnected (power plan switches monitor off or physically switched off), MS Windows re-arranges all the windows on to the other monitors (I have 4) in a random fashion.

I have not been able to find a fix for this DisplayPort madness so I am trying to get DF to help me out. I see there is a function "Save Window Positions" that I have been playing with.

Is there any way I can automate this?

Note that my PC never sleeps but I do switch the monitors off at night and the power plan also switches the monitors off after 15 minutes.

I would like DF to save the positions on detecting that the monitor has disconnected and restore the saved window positions on reconnect.

As a test I used a timer to save the window postions and a hotkey to restore from last save. This works but I would prefer to automate the process if possible.

Any ideas on how to do this?

Thanks

Mark.
Apr 4, 2020  • #1
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Graham5280
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Hello,

I faced a similar problem at work. My employer will force an idle monitor power off in the BIOS, and DisplayFusion was the only way I could find around it.

My solution was to get the applications situated as I wanted them and then to save them as a "Windows Position Profile". I also bound "Alt+Ctrl+F1" as a hotkey to restore my windows after I logged back in.

After a lot of research, This appears to be a Win10 bug for Display Port connections. When I had a similar 3 monitor setup, I had no problems with D-DVI connections.
Apr 5, 2020  • #2
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SurfRat
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Thanks for your input. I am waiting to see if DF have any ideas.
Apr 6, 2020  • #3
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SurfRat
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I found a solution.

1. Create a monitor profile for your normal state (all monitors on).
2. Create a "Timer Interval" trigger, interval is 60 seconds with Monitor profile created above selected. Add a "Save Window Positions" function.
3. Create a "Monitor Profile Changed" trigger with Monitor profile created above selected. Add a "Restore Window Positions From Last Save" function.

This works but sometimes the restored windows are sitting under the task bar. Maybe a short delay before the restore will fix this.
Apr 6, 2020  • #4
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SurfRat
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Hmm, not that succesful. Only works sometimes....
Apr 10, 2020  • #5
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
There are a couple of things you can do to try to make it more reliable:

  • Update to the latest DisplayFusion beta, and enable the "Don't run this trigger when the desktop is locked" option in the rule for saving the window positions.
  • Increase the interval to 120 or 180.

Hope that helps!
Apr 14, 2020  • #6
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SurfRat
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I did find a solution to this (sorry, very late in posting the solution).

You need to create a "Window Position Profile" and add all the windows you care about. I have assigned a hot key and it works well.
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Feb 9, 2021  • #7
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