Wouldn't it be great to determine that a certain program always opens on a specific monitor.
So it would be great to have a list with programs/apps and you can set the monitor that it always opens up, e.g. Word will always open on monitor 3.
Is that a possible featur to include?

Regards,
Andreas

You already have this feature. Right click on the DF taskbar and select Settings. Click on the Window Location tab and create a rule.

Hi Alan,
thanks a lot for that!
I was not looking for that feature under "Window Location".
Wow, now that made my day.
Have a good one,
Andreas

Guess I am missing some thing here, when I select windows location tab all i have is triggers, cant find rule(s)

Try the "Triggers (Windows Location)" tab, the third tab from the top.

Wow I just signed up because I was going to ask this question. Thanks!

Yes I have always bee able to see that exact location, however when I am there, the only option is to select "Enable Triggers" so I select this ONLY option. Then select add and it does not give me the option to open say word on screen#1 and excel on screen #2. S again I am sorry if I cant follow the process.

Still not working, and now when I open the fusion window reg fails

I'm sorry, but creating these triggers is way too involved. Yes, I could do it, but I truly do not want to. The reason for having software is to implement and automate basic functionality.

There used to be a feature to open application windows on a specified monitor. It was fairly simple, and it mostly worked. But now that interface is gone, so now we must build rules for these things?No thanks! That's not what I want, and I likedetailed management. Imagine the folks who aren't interested, invested, or capable.

Please don't remove basic, essential functionality that people like and replace it with something that requires constantly referencing the documentation to create and manage multiple steps to implement. Yuck.

These triggers are particularly buggy, and using them should be reserved to develop truly personalized intricacies that the basic software doesn't support. They should not replace commonly used and previously supported application screen management.

I request that you rethink this Triggers approach.

I agree with TTE statement.
Every Time there is a new update the the simple things change, cant understand why this is not passed through end user first.

One of my oldest footnote is KISS.

I have attached is the requested screen shot of the trigger. The problem is it is for outlook and when I open a email that email open onto the other screen and not the program it self.

Thanks for your help on getting the trigger set up the way the program is coded.

With my system, I dont need to set any triggers or such to open something on a specific screen. For example open Outlook and then drag it to the screen you want it to open on. Click on an email and drag that to the screen you want to read it on then close them down. After that Outlook opens on the screen I selected as does the emails I click on.
This works for all my programs and does with or without DF running.

Funny don't know why I never tried that before, Thanks

I still can't get windows to open via their specific taskbar/monitor no matter how much fiddling I do. I have to agree, the old way was superior and simpler. I'm usually trying to open tasks like Firefox, Chrome, Windows Explorer. Tasks open on the last window they were closed. I'm running Windows 7.

Any help would be appreciated.

Perhaps I didn't explain myself properly. However I figured it out nevertheless. I did not want to open a window/task on the same specific monitor every time. I wanted the freedom to open a window/task via it's own monitor/taskbar.

The solution is the actions: Move window to mouse cursor monitor.

I hope this a permanent solution; meaning it's working now but buggy later or updated to something completely different in a few months.

To be more clear these are my settings for anyone interested in doing the same.

I've been successful with setting the opening screen for my programs but I'm having a more specific problem. I use remote desktop, which runs all day on M1 (only) and then my local PC runs on both M1 and M2 all day. If I open something on M2 (in local) and slide it to M1, it appears on top of the remote desktop session...this is good. Now to my complication (albeit minor but annoying)...

I like playing RealPlayer while I work sometimes and typically view it in Toolbar mode but while RP opens on M2, the Toolbar appears on M1, BEHIND my remote desktop. (BTW, my local taskbar is on M2.) I cannot seem to force the RP Toolbar onto M2 and also cannot move it. Any thoughts?

Not positive because I'm not at work (and just saw your reply) but I'm assuming M2 is primary because it handles the boot up graphics.

Hello. Is it possible to have an application running directly from a server to open on a specific monitor (it is an .exe)? I have the trigger set, however, the application will only open on my primary monitor.

It is a SQL (physical) server running our Time and Billing System.

I have attached it for you.

Unfortunately, that did not work. Is there anything else I could try?

Hi,

I'm using the trigger rule to open all windows open on the monitor where the mouse is.

I have an application (kodi) that i lauch with a remote on my external monitor.
I've set Kodi to only open on my external monitor by using the trigger rule on display fusion and by using the settings in kodi to lock the app in a specific monitor.

My problem is that kodi keeps opening in the monitor where the mouse is rehardless of the other rules i've applied.

So i was wondering if it was possible to exlude an app from the "all the windows open in the monitor where the mouse is" trigger rule?

Hi Keith Lammers ,

It helped a lot!

It's working flawlessly now.

Thank you for for your quick, concise and precise response!

And thanks for making such a useful app!

Hi,
is there any chance to open different instances of the same application on different monitors, according , for example, to the process instance ID ?
For exemple, i would like to open a first instance of a videosurveillance client software on monitor1, the second instance on monitor2, the third instance on monitor3, and the fourth and last instance on monitor 4.
Any further instance should start again form the first monitor to the fourth, and so on...

Is there any way to implement this ?

Thank you
David

Hi Keith,
I would open four instances at the same time.

The problem is as follows: I have a videosurveillance client software, used to show video streams from IP cameras.
Now, this client can send different views of the cameras on different monitors, but, above all,when you close the client, and afterwards you open it again, it remebers the last position of the windows, before it was closed.

So the client restores exactly the views on each monitor, in the same position they were the last time.

Now, for some reason it very long to explain, I have to open four instances of this client, each one connected to a different videoserver, and FORCE each client to open its main window ( just one for each client ) on each monitor in the position I choose ( i Have four monitors with extended desktop ).

I have managed this , by using a workaround: in crograms/ I have created four copies of the folders of the client software, with all the executables, dll, etc, and renamed each folder in order do have four different paths: for example : crograms/client1/client.exe, crograms/client2/client.exe, crograms/client3/client.exe, crograms/client4/client.exe.

Then i created four triggers, "windows created", where "match conditions" is the process filename, and each trigger is associated with each different complete path and filename of the process.

This workaround works, but for some reason, possibly accordingly to the order in which you close the windows ( or for some other misterious reason ), sometime it doesn't work, and the windows just open overlapped on the first two monitors in a radnom way ( or with a scheme I could not understand ).

So I thought thet maybe I am doing something wrong or using displayfusion in some unusual way, and maybe there is some more elegant and correct solution ( es. not using four paths but just one path and open four instances of the program from this path )

sorry for the long explanation, hope i have been clear...

David

Hi Keith,
I'll do some tests with the solution you suggested.
At the moment I have implemented the delay by means of a batch file that opens the four clients, and waiting 10 seconds between each command, using the DOS command "CHOICE /T 10 /D S /N", that exactly waits 10 seconds before going on.
At the moment it seems to work.
I will also try with the delay directly in Displayfusion.

Thanks
David

Is it possible to determine a window out of running processes?

I use YAWcam to monitor one of my apartment windows (cat comes in through that one). Problem is that I can only select the general program executable, but the window I want to move is called 'Yawcam - Preview' and I cant find how to add that one.

Hi Keith!

Thanks for helping me out.
I've tried it with a trigger - but I'd take any method to make it work

I feel silly that I didn't came up with it myself. Works like a charm now - thank you very much!

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