NickLarry
2 discussion posts
Hello!
I've recently moved to dual display setup and downloaded df to try and see if it suits me as everyone said it's the best for dual display management and sure enough, it looks like it is! Before that, I had tried actual multiple monitors and, while DF is the better software, I think the screen saver function is a bit wanting (or it could be I'm doing something wrong). Let me explain:
With the other program, when I do not move the mouse pointer inside monitor 1 it can have a screensaver started just on this monitor and let me keep working on monitor 2. Now, when I set DF to have no screensaver on monitor 2 and start the screensaver on monitor 1, I have to remain idle on both monitors. And after the screensaver kicks in, monitor 1 has the screensaver and monitor 2 is filled with the windows 8 background color and I have to ctrl-alt-del to unlock and return to desktop, which removes the screensaver from monitor 1 as well. I don't think that's a good approach compared to ActualMM. Is this something that will be fixed? Is there something I'm doing wrong maybe? That I'm missing?
Thx!
Glad to hear you like DisplayFusion! You're not doing anything wrong, the difference is in the approach we take for launching the screen saver. We just let Windows handle the idle time checking, and then it starts the screen saver which then calls our screen saver. The reason ours can't run on only a single monitor is because Windows switches to a secure desktop (the same as when a UAC prompt is shown) for security reasons, and it blanks out all monitors when doing it.
I'm not sure exactly how AMM is doing theirs, but I'm guessing they're handling the idle times within their software itself, and just running the screen saver within a window in the current user's desktop. We may add this method in a future version, and if we do, I'll be sure to let you know!
Thanks!
NickLarry
2 discussion posts
Thx for the clarification!
