Hello DisplayFusion, first time poster here.

I have one feature request (It may already be a feature and I just can't find it). Imagine you are playing a video game and have one primary monitor and two external monitors. In my case, I have a laptop in the middle with two larger externals, all being 1920x1080. The bright white of Google chrome on the left monitor and the bright colors of your desktop background on the right are disturbing your concentration. You could turn them off, but then you can't see something important incase your attention is needed.

Is there a feature where I could press a key and then both of my externals would dim?

Thanks

WOW. Incredible service. Works perfectly. Speedy response. 10/10 you guys just earned me as a customer for life.

thanks for making this. How do i adjust how dark it gets? i would like it really dark!

How do i get it dim all displays (including primary) but not my 3rd monitor (my TV I want to watch movies on)

I don't want to take the time to switch primary displays. I'm not very good at editing code but I see the line I have to change I just don't know how to get the device I.D. for the monitor.

Thank you so much that worked perfectly!

Doesn't seem to work well with nvidia DSR scaling. My displays are both set at 2.5x native. When I activate the script all I see is a small (400px x 400px) square transparency located on the upper left of the primary display.

I'll take a wild guess that line 35:


That "30m" ... etc, is level of transparency.

Log attached

Oops, should have known.

screenshot of dialog box

debug log

Ran the function @ 1727

i also get some grey boxes on the top left of the primary monitor when i run this script



edit
Ok i used to have this problem a few months back and when i saw this topic it resurfaced.

I tried it again right away and i had the problem multiple times, i kept hitting the hotkey and then all of a sudden DP crashed.

I then started displayfusion again and the problem dissapeared.

Really strange...

Just wondering if there has been any update with this? Though not a priority.

Was looking at this further today, obviously I hadn't taken much look into my last post #17

The dialog displays:


but it ought to read X=2880, Y=1800 ; not Y=323, everything else looks fine.

Searched and applied your suggestions, this is what I found.

Doesn't exist


Already there (line 122)


When replacing (line 103)

to



The transparency just stacks ~400px sq. tiles on the primary display. I need to kill the running DF task in order to clear the tiles.

Also, there is no change in how the transparency script reacts when changing back to native resolution.

I receive the same error as when trying your suggestions, apparently I forgot to mention that.

to


"This scripted function appears to be invalid."

The script I used is the one downloaded 22 days, 5 hours, 19 mins ago. I'm also showing Aug 15, 2016 12:43PM as the latest script.

Edit:
I just re-downloaded and replaced the script... it now seems to be working. Sorry for the false alert.

Hello, just wanted to say I really appreciate this script.
Even though W10 has multi taskbar functionality I don't regret my purchase. This program is solid and full of features!

Hi Keith,

Thanks for providing the script and keeping this thread updated

I stumbled upon this forum as I wanted to create a workspace with less distractions.

Part of it is to dim the screen which doesn't contain an active Window.

So, if i'm writing an email, I'd like the windows/screen on the other monitor to be dimmed.
However, if I switch to an app on the other monitor, let's say monitor 2, this monitor should be bright and monitor 1 should be dimmed.

I hope you get the idea.

This would need a script constantly checking the position of the active window.

Do you think this is doable?

Thanks, Pat

Hi Thomas,

Thanks a lot for the quick response and the solution!

This works perfect. I'm not distracted by the second monitor anymore

Cheers, great work!

Heyo,

Sorry to revive this discussion. Earlier you said if(id == 3) it's possible to dim the third monitor.

In my case, this works for monitor 1 and 3 but not 2 which is my ultrawide display. I would really like to keep that one bright while gaming, while dimming the rest.

Any ideas as to why this might be?

@Thomas Malloch

Actively Dim Unfocused Monitors

Thanks for the script it work like a charm....

There is still too much light on it/them,
( and I don't want it dark and unreadable)

Is there a way to control how much "dim" to put in the other Monitors??

Regards
Alain

Thanks Keith,

I saw it and I use waiting an answer here ...but it doesn't work the same.

I explain ..
The feature " monitor fading - fade non current monitor" >>
If I minimize a windows on Primary... Immediately it jump and light the secondary monitor.
You can move the mouse wherever you want it doesn't light any monitor unless you (blindly) click on it.

The script "Actively Dim Unfocused Monitors " >>>
Always dims the other monitor where there is NO MOUSE.
And if I move the mouse it light the appropriate monitor when the mouse over on it.

(exactly what I need)

I'll try your suggestion

Regards

Alain

Sorry to say even with 5m the dimming is the same:

______Copy Begin ____________
BFS.Window.SetTransparency(form.Handle, (form.MonitorId == monitorId) ? 0 : 5m);
______Copy End ____________

Regards Alain

Thanks Keith..

1) oh well.... so I need to rise the number to get near 100, instead I've put 5 )
2) NO, only ONE instance when I run the script ( no little green things !! hahaha!)
3) Yes it can be a nice solution, great for me, pending that I'm not the only DF user (heheeh)
3)bis even sending not moused monitor to sleep would be acceptable for me. (timing it after a said time)

So Now I'll try to rise the line 140 number to 75m and post back the result

Regards Alain

A)
... put 75 then 175 no difference in dimming...

and while it was running only ONE green thing in notification

B)
with 175 I remembered to "apply" ... and when rerun the script.
I obtained the opposite....
the current screen become black

Changed to 75, apply ... rerun ... DF crash ...
Restarted DF rerun script with 75 then 85... it's working, but sometime doing strange things...

C)

Disabled Script .... I go back to Button pushing or using the standard fading function.

OOOH; many thanks !!

Alain

this morning I've got a surprise. I'm using standard dimming function.

The wall paper got split in 3 !!
I hope the pics explain better then me!

I did look around if it happened to stumble on the cause a so particukar habit.

Entered window's desktop "personalize" and LO !

..problem solved itself, even not having clicked anywhere....

(strange things, often, doesn't need an explanation to happen or to disappear)

Hello Keith,

I may show you some "indecision" on what monitor to light up by the default option.
After hiding/closing the active windows on the primary monitor, it most often happen hovering with the mouse on the hiding taskbar (windows managed not DF) but also elsewhere for any in-definited reasons.

I've no idea how to describe it )

This short video show one of the surprising event.

Regards

Alain

Hello Keith,

Right now, after the try with the script we spoke previously, I kept using the Settings > Monitor Fading tab.

Sometime it act strangely, swapping monitor back and forth on an action that next time will not do it.

Difficult to pinpoint, and even to do a video of each singular event, sorry.

Alain

Ps: got one I can film !! Really fun ....hahahahah

Please note the un-dimming of the secondary monitor. "flash in, flash out"

May be is not present in this video .... BUT ....
The funniest is when BOTH monitor get dimmed at once and stay dimmed....
My mind ask ... hmmm.. where I was ?

PPSS: I live in Italy (primary language) but I'm French (a little rusty)
I've already bought DF, but if you need a hand feel free to ask !

PPSS: I speak Italian (primary language) and I'm french (rusty language)
and ... I've already bought DF .. but if you need a hand let me jnow!

two monitor dimmed at once ...

After moving a small windows on the secondary monitor.
It's black so barely visible on the right corner of the small monitor.

Thanks Keith,
Here you are... Fresh from my scrreeennn...

Wow, for sure I didn't get your meaning ...
??IoBit Uninstaller
I have it installed ... is that a problem ??
Thanks
Alain

Thanks for the Update.
I didn't check if it works yet for the previous issues.

I found this strange thing, and I don't know if it's DF or something else doing the trick...

My primary monitor is clearly defined... and it worked fine for someday after I installed the beta.
1) is a 55" Samsung TV [HDMI] (with 4k not yet enabled) 2) is a Samsung 27" Monitor [VGA]

To day I was checking display configuration to see what I should do to enable 4k, and suddenly all the desktop icons went on the secondary.
I'm not able to understand why.... and how to get them back on the primary

The taskbar are still normally on 1) ... nothing changed unless the icons.

Alain

PS: Attached monitor configuration snippet

I also did a restart with both monitor powered up ... nothing changed.

As you can see here the Bar is still at his place .. vertical on the primary.

Alain

Another restart solved it ... no reason given!



Alain

Hi all,

Sorry to resurrect this thread AGAIN..

I'm loving the dim unfocused function, but what I would love to achieve is the following:

Run VLC on my primary monitor, dim other windows
If I click into a dimmed window, never dim my primary.

Any ideas?

Hey Keith,

Sorry, totally didn't see this was a feature request post. I was more quizzing if the posted scripts above could be modified in some way to never dim the primary monitor even if I clicked out to a secondary one. If that can be done that would be sweet as heck.

I saw mention of a mouse feature in #40 on this thread, was that ever implemented? I've been googling for a solution for a long time. Essentially my oled is suffering from burn-in, I want it to dim the screen or black it out entirely unless my cursor is active on that screen.