Hey all.

Been happily using DisplayFusion for a number of years now. However, I'm having a frustrating issue on my work laptop and saved windows positions that I'm hoping someone can assist with.

My laptop has one screen when not docked (kinda' obvious I guess) and 3 screens when on its dock: The internal display and two 24" external displays. I do have that configuration saved as a monitor profile and I created a windows position profile to go with it, which is assigned to it (see attached images.)

The problem is, the profile just doesn't apply when I put the laptop back on the dock. It doesn't matter how long I wait, nothing happens. I've recreated the profile multiple times and also tried assigning a hotkey to the window profile that seems inconsistent at best so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Given that this is one of DisplayFusion's core feature, I'm going to guess it's something on my end and not a bug but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

If anyone's able to assist, I would greatly appreciate it as this laptop is used in a managed IT job with a LOT of open windows and it regularly gets removed from the dock for meetings. Thanks!

Hi Keith! Sorry for the delayed response.

So when I redock and attempt to manually load the profile, it doesn't work properly. A bunch of windows get manipulated but none of them end up in their saved positions. So, it appears the profile itself is the issue. I've already recreated it multiple times to no avail.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Hi again!

So I just tried what you suggested. I manually loaded the profile 3 times and it moved one window (Microsoft Teams) and everything else stayed where it was.

You got it! Backup attached.

Thanks!

Oh, interesting! OK, that makes sense. I'll give it a try and let you know. Thanks!

Just had this issue & found this thread; so I put text in the profile like: for Firefox, "*Firefox" and for Excel, "*Excel" instead of the actual filenames I saved on the profile recently.

SUGGESTION: a pop-up reminder during a profile save, that can be turned off if someone is well aware of this behaviour. As a newbie, it would have saved me a bit of frustration.