My work computer is a laptop. I work with two large external monitors in addition to the LCD monitor screen on my laptop when I am in our corporate office. I use Skype for Business to communicate with both Local and Remote colleagues. When someone sends an IM to me, Skype for Business first presents an Alert dialog on screen. After 10 or so seconds of no action on my part, that dialog closes and the IM window automatically minimizes to the taskbar. It always goes to the taskbar on the monitor screen I use least often (the built-in LCD on my laptop) when attached to the docking station.

The program options screen in Skype for Business lets me set where the Alert pops up to let me know someone is sending me an IM (Instant Message), and I have it set to appear very prominently on one of the external monitors. It has no such setting for which monitor to minimize the IM to, or to stop it from minimizing at all. This presents a problem for me if I happen to not be looking at the monitor when the Alerts appear, and I sometimes don't see the IM in the taskbar until the other person has given up hope of reaching me. I want to force the IM to either open in it's normal size on the Monitor Location I specify in Display Fusion or at least to minimize to the taskbar on that monitor instead of on the laptop monitor.

The program has 3 .EXEs running - lync.exe, UcMapi.exe, and lynchtmlconv.exe. I watched Resource Monitor as I started an IM conversation and observed that lync.exe is being used most at that moment (presumably to control the IM window). In Display Fusion, I set the Window Location for lync.exe to "Move Window" to the selected monitor I prefer, and set Window Location Mode to "First Window Only" leaving the Delay default at 0.0.

This does work to open the IM window to the Selected Monitor when I initiate an IM with someone else, but it does nothing to the IM window when someone else initiates the conversation and I miss the alert.

If anyone knows how to make Display Fusion work to force the IM window to my Selected Monitor when someone else initiates the IM, please let me know!

Thanks,

- Carey

Keith,

Thanks for your reply!

Here's a screenshot of my settings. If you are talking about Window Location MODE, I have it set to All Windows. Also attached are screenshots of the IM Alert dialog which opens on my secondary monitor in the top right corner, and the IM Minimized to the Laptop taskbar after the Alert disappears. I think the Alert and the IM are separate, but not entirely certain. If I see the Alert and click on it, the program opens the IM window. If I let the Alert go away, I just see the IM in minimized mode on the laptop screen. There is no screen activity to indicate to me that the Alert Dialog itself is minimizing.

- Carey

EDIT: Oh, when I posted yesterday I did have the MODE set to First Window Only. I subsequently changed it to All Windows to see what would happen, but there was no change. If needed, I could set the Alert back to open on the laptop screen, and then capture a little video of how the whole screen behaves when it minimizes.

Keith,

Here is a .zip file for you. Times between 17:10:16 and 17:10:50.

Thanks for looking!

- Carey

EDIT: I noticed today (Friday) that when I see and catch the Alert on my Secondary Monitor before it minimizes to the Laptop screen - and click on it - the IM window opens up first on the laptop screen, but it is very quickly caught (by Display Fusion ?) and moved to the monitor I have set up in the Window Location Settings.

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