Colin2
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I am working on a Windows 10 machine with 2 monitors. Recently I have started connecting to the machine with remote desktop from a laptop (single screen). The laptop has a smaller screen / lower resolution than either of my main monitors.
As a result, when I return to the main machine, all of my windows have moved to the first monitor, and often windows have shrunk as well.
Using display fusion 7.3.4 I have added two new title bar buttons, "Save Window Positions" and "Restore Window Positions From Last Save", since these sound like they will solve this problem.
During the week I did a couple of save window positions, and on both occasions I got a notification message saying that the window positions had been saved.
I then connected with remote desktop, rebooted the machine, installing a windows 10 update in the process, and did some jobs. When I returned to the machine I loaded programs, found them moved and resized, so pressed the restore window positions button, but nothing happened.
Am I missing something obvious here? Does the save and restore not work across a reboot? Could it be that only some windows are restored?
I am not seeing any obvious help on these commands, but this article indicates the functions do what I want them to do:
https://www.displayfusion.com/News/2016/01/automatically-save-and-restore-window-positions-on-sleep-resume/
if I can just figure out how to use them correctly.
That's correct! The positions are not remembered across reboots, or when the open programs are closed/re-opened. This is due to the window positions being stored with the windows themselves, as there's no real way to identify a unique window other than its window handle, which changes when the window is destroyed and re-created.
I'd recommend creating Window Location rules for your programs in addition to using the Save/Restore Window Positions. The Window Location rules will setup their positions when they're first launched (or closed and re-launched), and the Save/Restore functions will help when they're left open but have shuffled around because of a monitor layout change.
Hope that makes sense!
No worries, glad I could help clarify the functionality!
