DisplayFusion thread (multi-monitor productivity software)

uncle_rufus · 22 Jun 2015 at 13:08

I couldn't see a thread for this or any mention of it via search, so I've setup the title in such a way that this could become the "official" thread (if anyone besides me owns the software!)

I saw this pop up in the Steam sale last week and decided for £3.99 it was worth a punt. So far I'm quite impressed with the features, but since there are so many things to it I wondered if anybody else on here wants to share tips etc. ?

HecFam · 22 Jun 2015 at 13:12

I've been using it for years, just to have multi monitor taskbars on windows 7 and 8. I like to have programs pinned to taskbar on each screen, so it is perfect for that. I don't really use to many other features bar multi monitor wallpaper. But its well worth a purchase just for the taskbars alone.

neil_g · 22 Jun 2015 at 13:39

£3.99? My Steam says £6.19.

uncle_rufus · 22 Jun 2015 at 14:22

neil_g said:
£3.99? My Steam says £6.19.

It was in one of their "Flash deals" the other day so was a bit cheaper...

HecFam said:
I've been using it for years, just to have multi monitor taskbars on windows 7 and 8. I like to have programs pinned to taskbar on each screen, so it is perfect for that. I don't really use to many other features bar multi monitor wallpaper. But its well worth a purchase just for the taskbars alone.

The taskbars are certainly useful, with a little tweaking - I don't really like having 2 duplicate versions of the sys-tray, the show-desktop button and the start menu, so I hide all of those (and simply keep an extra clock on one of the periphery monitors so I can see the time when I have something fullscreen)

What I couldn't work out is - is there a way to have it so for example if I pin a launcher for Chrome to all 3 of my taskbars, it currently works so that clicking one which doesn't already have a chrome window will open a new window, however by default that new window will appear exactly where the existing chrome window is...

In other words it would be neat if I could have 3 custom positions for Chrome which would depend on which of the 3 taskbars I click on to launch it (maximized if on centre screen, custom sizes taking up parts of the screens if on one of the other two). Anybody done anything like that?

kayomani · 26 Jun 2015 at 00:41

I have been using for a couple of years and I can recommend it if you're on 8 or below. I recently upgraded to windows 10 and display fusion didn't really work correctly, completely the wrong colour task bar among other things. Windows 10 has a properly implemented native multi monitor task bar so display fusion has been pretty much relegated to a wallpaper manager now for me.

uncle_rufus · 26 Jun 2015 at 07:18

kayomani said:
I have been using for a couple of years and I can recommend it if you're on 8 or below. I recently upgraded to windows 10 and display fusion didn't really work correctly, completely the wrong colour task bar among other things. Windows 10 has a properly implemented native multi monitor task bar so display fusion has been pretty much relegated to a wallpaper manager now for me.

I didn't know that about Windows 10 - how do the options for the native multi-monitor taskbar compare to DisplayFusion's?

Presumably the author will update it for Windows 10 once it has been taken up by more people?

Pho · 26 Jun 2015 at 11:19

I use it on both my home (dual screen) and work PC (triple screens), couldn't live with out it

. Don't use any features bar the multi-monitor task bar though.

Burnsy2023 · 26 Jun 2015 at 13:24

Pho said:
I use it on both my home (dual screen) and work PC (triple screens), couldn't live with out it . Don't use any features bar the multi-monitor task bar though.

What features do you use?

I used to use it. I have dual screens at work and triple at home. I don't have it on my current builds and I don't really miss it.

Pho · 26 Jun 2015 at 13:48

Just the ability to have apps open on monitor X only show on taskbar X is invaluable. I tend to have a fair amount of things open.. though today I'm actually pretty light!

uncle_rufus · 26 Jun 2015 at 15:09

The taskbars do seem to be one of the more coveted features...

Though I also quite like being able to change the way the Alt+TAB switcher works and where it appears...

That and the thing which stops games from minimizing when you change focus to the non-primary monitors (especially for some of Valve's titles, which have always had a hard time being un-minimized for me). I'm yet to settle on what the best way of using this feature is though (currently using Window rules to force it on any applications in the "Steam/steamapps" path