Is there a way to automatically dim/sleep my primary monitor whenever a window (or certain program) is active on my secondary monitor?

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crimsonnight

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Basically, I have my PC connected to my TV (secondary monitor), and often watch movies (VLC/Netflix) or play games on the TV in the evening and having my bright-IPS monitor blaring out isn't ideal. I have backlights (Prismatik) installed on my TV which requires both displays to be active (ie I can't just completely turn off my primary monitor) - so, I'm looking for a way to automatically put my primary monitor to sleep or at least dim it whenever a window is active on my secondary monitor, and if not a tray icon that I can activate to sleep/dim my primary monitor - is this possible? Cheers!

Apr 4, 2018 • #1

Have you tried out the options on the Monitor Fading tab? You can manually dim a monitor, or have it automatically dim whichever one you're not using

Hope that helps!

Apr 5, 2018 • #2

crimsonnight

3 discussion posts

That's exactly what I was looking for, no idea how I missed it - thank you!

Apr 6, 2018 • #3

No worries, glad I could help!

Apr 6, 2018 • #4

eX ordium69818

1 discussion post

Great function. Thank you for implementing this

Apr 8, 2020 • #5

Dinh Nhan29018

3 discussion posts

Hi, is there a way to automatically dim other monitors only when focus to a fullscreen game/video instead of "non-currrent monitors" & "non-primary monitors"?
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I'm using "non-currrent monitors" with toggle hotkey as temporary solution, but sometime taskbar of other monitor won't dim (attachment), is that a bug?

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Nov 27, 2021 (modified Nov 27, 2021) • #6

Hi Dinh,

Have you tried using "Fade Everything Except Current Window"?

How often does the taskbar not fade as well?

Thanks!

Nov 30, 2021 • #7

Dinh Nhan29018

3 discussion posts

Hi.
"Fade Everything Except Current Window" doesn't fit my need. Most of the time I don't need Fade function, it cause a flash light when switching between monitors that hurt my eyes.
As mentioned, I just want to fade other monitors while focus to a fullscreen task (fullscreen youtube, fullscreen vlc, fullscreen game), or a special process (someSoftware.exe)
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Whenever i click on DF's taskbar (on sub monitor) then focus to main monitor: DF's taskbar won't fade until Start menu is opened. Windows's taskbar (on my main monitor) don't meet this problem
A screen record may help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlBPE6wx16Y

Nov 30, 2021 (modified Nov 30, 2021) • #8

Hi Dinh,

1) Ah okay, we don't currently have functions to enable/disable monitor fading, just the toggle on/off which can get messy when trying to have it fire on window focus. I've added your vote to our feature request for the functions to enable/disable monitor fading, so we'll be sure to let you know if we have any news on that in the future.

2) I was able to reproduce this on my end, so I've added this to our list to look into as well.

Thanks!

Dec 1, 2021 • #9

Dinh Nhan29018

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Thank you, hoping that feature will available soon.

Dec 1, 2021 • #10