hello, thank you for this explanation
I am trying to do something similar but more complex, here is the detail:

On my left screen, open two explorer windows. The first on the left side open on D: and the second on "This computer"

On the central screen already divided in 30/70, open a chrome window on the left on a specific site, same thing for the right part.

On my right screen, already split in 30/30/30, open also a chrome window on each part with a specific site.

Do you think this is possible, and if so can you help me in the settings?
Thank you

Hello,
i have a similar question.

i need to store profiles/workspaces and to quick access them, anytime, not when displayfusion or the Computer starts.

E.G.
- open two explorer windows on dedicated positions
- open three explorer windows on dedicated positions + open a program on a dedicated position

But is this is actually possible? i cant find it.

brg
hub2000

Hi there,

I followed this instructions and tested several others. No matter what I'm doing the applications are always opening at my primary Screen.

Is this a bug may be with the Fall-Creators Update?

Specs
Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit, Fall Creators Update (1709)
DisplayFusion 9.1

I wanted to automate a process where, at startup, 4 different applications are opened at 4 different screens (1 application per screen).

Best regards

I am in need of the same request as hub2000. It's great to know you have a new feature planned for it. Would you mind elaborating a little bit more about it, please? Is it under development already and is there an estimated time of delivery on this new feature?

If I may make a recommendation, it would be incredible if by an on/off flag somewhere in settings, we could just have these apps save to their perspective virtual monitors within the opened profile automatically so we do not have to manually do this setup. Yes, call us lazy, but that's why we like apps like DisplayFusion and the likes, to save us time by setting something up to work for us so we can go about our work efficiently. At the moment (me being new to DisplayFusion and still working and figuring things out with the trial version), I feel like DisplayFusion is missing an automation feature that will do this setup of apps assigned to each monitor within each profile and also the window sizes so we don't have to do this every time we want to change. Really, what would be great is that I set up the monitors in each profile to my liking and wherever i position a window, everything about that window is then saved. If I close out DisplayFusion and open it and select a particular profile, then those windows come up automatically or even by switching from one profile to another, the windows change out and are placed automatically where they were last left. Another automatic on/off flag option could be to start last opened windows of a selected profile when changing profiles. If this on/off flag is marked as off, then just when the user selects the app to open it, it would still then go to where it was last opened.

I have not tried yet, but by watching the tutorial video of hovering over the window to grab the size and location that this is a very manual process. What happens when I move the window or resize it, does it automatically save or will I have to go back in to manually hover over that window again to have it placed where I repositioned/resized the window? I can definitely find this out myself, but my point is that I am betting is all manual and I can see this aspect getting cumbersome for me personally.

I use 3 monitors, one of them being a 55" TV, so I have a lot of real estate to move things around and I do change the windows a lot, but I still would like them to be left where they were from my last use on the computer.

I could be completely misunderstanding DisplayFusion with limited knowledge being only a couple of days in on this app and it would be great to be stood corrected on, but so far I cannot figure out all of the things as I mentioned just yet. These are just some thoughts in my head that I think would take this incredible app to another level, if I am correct on how it works, so far.

Thank you.

Yes I did. But then I realized I'm trying to move Unity Standalone-Builds and suspected, that the internal Unity Display-Settings might interfere with DisplayFusion. So I tested with a regular application and that worked fine.

So I guess I have to investigate what settings to disable in Unity. But it should work with Fullscreen-Applications right?

Best regards

Hi there. Yes, shortcut works. Anyway... I can setup unity to start as windowed fullscreen (chromeless), that would work too.
Thank you.

This positioning and sizing of windows at display-fusion-startup works fine for "normal" applications but the positioning of apps or "Windows Universal Applications" doesn't work.
When display fusion starts: Firefox, Vivaldi, Outlook, Waterfox and Chrome, all start fine and go to their defined position,
but Twitter, Weather and Tune-in Radio start ok but then all go to my main monitor instead of the position I told them to go to in the triggers when their windows are created.

I don't think it is a problem with display-fusion as these Universal Applications also don't remember where they were positioned if I close them and reopen. It looks like they are completely unaware of the monitor configuration.
Any ideas?

In the attached screenshot trigger 7 of windows created is open, it is triggered by Display-fusion starts trigger 3 MSN Weather. I try to move it to my top left monitor (of 6) but it keeps popping up on the bottom middle monitor (main) in the top left corner.

What also doesn't work is: Skype Start trigger 8 works sometimes and Window Created trigger 6 to minimize Skype never works.

Hope this helps you improve an already great product that I have been using for years.
Cheers, Sijmen

Thank you, I added the trigger below and it works fine.

My joy was too soon, as long as the "weather" trigger is the only one to use *ApplicationFrameHost.exe to position and size it works fine. But when I add similar triggers for "Skype" and "Twitter" none of the UWP's position and size where I tell them, including "Weather" who works fine when his trigger is the only UWP trigger in the create-window triggers.

I have now 3 UWP Window Create triggers and they behave as follows: Weather ends up on the main momitor (bottom middle), Skype opens where it was last closed and stays there, Twitter maximizes sometimes on the main monitor and sometimes on the left monitor.

I also found the following when I close Weather, Skype or Twitter and then open them again, then they do go to the right position. Wouldn't this suggest that the apps that are started with the "DisplayFusion" start event: have their window created and opened before the "Create Window" triggers are defined.

Is there a way to make sure that DisplayFusion defines all the triggers first before executing any functions?

Something strange happened, Twitter updated their windows 10 app and then Display-fusion couldn't start twitter anymore with the custom function I made. The button for twitter on the taskbar was also not working anymore.
I tried to create a new custom function for twitter but the app is not in either application list, normal or UWP.
So I uninstalled Twitter and removed the old remnants of the old and the new Twitter app with geek.
Then I reinstalled Twitter from the windows store and Twitter works fine, I see it in the menu and I could make a new button on the taskbar. But in the app list of Display-fusion to make a new custom function there is no Twitter entry. I tried dragging that little yellow disk to see the process ID but that does nothing.
There is another app that doesn't show up in the application list and that's Whats-app.
Any ideas?

I added "Wait: 5000ms" to triggers 6 and 7 of the event "DisplayFusion starts" to delay the running of the Apps: Weather and Skype. That works fine their windows are opened and moved to the right position.
Was did what you meant by "match conditions" ?

About the last post: This works if I exit Display-fusion and start it again, but it doesn't when I restart my PC. Not even when I increase the wait to 10000 ms.

Thanks, I downloaded beta 2 and that works fine with only 2000 in match conditions. I did that for all the UWP's

How Do I get this to open up a specific window of Firefox? All it lists are generic programs and I only want one specific Firefox window to have a specific position and not all of them.

I tend to have 3 FF Windows open at once, 2-10 Notepads and other things, but I want to save each window individually.

I found the guide helpful and this link too:
https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/launching-and-positioning-an-application-on-startup/?ID=a0f16c60-9c49-486f-a300-fe37589fb9d8

I am able to load up chrome on 1 monitor with one link in it however I need some help.

Currently have 4 monitors, all of them need to display data from intranet sites.

What I want to do is setup DisplayFusion to open 4x chrome windows with multiple tabs in them when a reboot happens. Preferably launching them in full screen.

Monitor 1 - 6 Tabs
Monitor 2 - 1 Tab
Monitor 3 - 3 Tabs
Monitor 4 - 4 Tabs

Is this possible to achieve please?

Followed this guide and cannot get my Slack UWP window to obey the trigger.
I created the Window Createdevent trigger, so it looks for *ApplicationFrameHost.exe as the Process Filename and in the Window Text box I simply put Slack.
I have put a delay of 5000 ms.
My action is Move Window to Specific Size and Location that I defined as X=3920, Y=0, W=1200, H=700 (Screen #2)

When I start the UWP app Slack, it pops up in the middle of the screen What must I do to reposition it automatically?

Thanks for this, can you possibly link me to it? I'm not finding the correct location

Here they are.

can i use this to open and position twitch chat,event log, stats windows since they need to be opened from the twich desktop app
Thanks

Hi, is it possible to start a number of applications and position them? Without having to restart DisplayFusion, by hitting a shortcut? I can't find it.

I was taking a look at the code on your suggestion, Open Multiple Chrome Windows with Multiple Tabs on specific monitors, that's close to what I'm looking for, but I just recently changed to 1, 42" monitor, split into 4 equal 1920 x 1080 quadrants. Can you point me in the direction on what I would need to change if I would be able to have it open to the 4 Quadrants, rather than monitors?

I just upgraded Win7 to Win10 and a trigger broke. My monitor setup is complex--one large one at 0,0 and then three smaller ones (#3, #4, #2) arranged below it--note that big monitor is only about as wide as two of the smaller ones.

Simple trigger--when the program is run, move to monitor 4, then maximize. It did exactly what I wanted, zero issues.

I cloned the hard drive to another drive, then took that drive and upgraded it to Win10. Now the first part of the trigger runs fine, but the maximize leaves it maximized over monitors #4 and #2. Note that manually dragging it to monitor #4 and hitting maximize works correctly.

Nevermind. For unknown reasons it suddenly started behaving even though I didn't change anything I'm aware of.

Hi Keith

I have 26 Windows, which I want to open on 3 Virtual Screens.
Do I really need to create 26 Functions, with 52 Triggers?

In the Windows Position Profile, it knows the Process Filename, is there an option, to tell it, to just open the Processes before it loads the Profile?

Or can I just add all the applications into autostart and Displayfution will arrange them when I load the profile? (also when I have multiple explorers)?

Hope there is an easyier way than creatint that much Functions/Triggers manually.

oh, I thought all the apps would neeed to run before displayfusion. An example would be great, thanks!

btw would there also be a way to close all other open windows, so only my setup remains?

thanks a lot! great tool!

I setup all the 26 applications now, but have two issues:

1. I can't get Edge to position it where I want. It seems it can't find it because it's an app. I found this post about it, but it does not work (anymore?): https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/edge-browser-win10-move-window-to-specific-size-and-location/?ID=a2615592-3859-42d0-ab15-9ff01354a4fa

2. It opens all my 26 applications at the correct location bot ALL on the first virtual desktop and not on the two other virtual desktop. How can I configure, that it uses the correct virtual desktop?

3. Thanks for that exmaple: "You could create a Scripted Function that launches all of the applications, and then run that from a single DisplayFusion Trigger rule. If you'd like an example of that, please let me know." As I have some applications which start before DF (like Teamviewer and Teams)

Hi Keith

1. It's the new Edge Chromium. Seems it's running like an app?
2. Ohh hope to get that soon, a real bummer
3. Without the recognition of the virtual desktops, I need to start them on each virtual desktop indiviudaly. But thanks a lot!

Cheers
Patrick

Hi,
I would like to start skype but the C#

doesn't work, in fact it does nothing.
If I do it with notepad it launch notepad.
Other question would be, how to start directly skype on a discussion with someone?

It's not working for me. I'm trying to start Rocket Chat, but it reports that the fiel is not found...

Application failed to start, file not found.
"C:\Program Files\Rocket.Chat\Rocket.Chat.exe"

I double-checked and the file is at that location.

It's working. I had copied the file location from the application's shortcut and I think the quotes around the path do not work with DisplayFusion.

I'm using "Launching and Positioning an Application on Startup" as a guide. My Program was suppose to be in Virtual Window 9. But on restart of Window 10 Pro it was in Virtual Window 1.
Bob
Oh yes, let me not forget, I'm as green as they come

Trying to set up FreeMind on a physical monitor but no love. Regardless of what I do, it goes to Main Display.

How do I select which monitor the application will go to?
Also when the computer monitors go out when I'm not using them how do I get the windows to stay on the monitor?

mbscpa
Mark Shernicoff

Thanks. I made the changes and hopefully I did it right. I'll let you know if it worked sometime later today or tomorrow.

I just tried it and it worked. Thanks again.

This is the most awesome thing I have had the pleasure to apply a setting for an annoying program that always opened with only the title bar visible. I set it to center on screen - whammo! Thank You So Much!!!

Hello.

Is there a way that I can OPEN ALL my saved windows and apps, to make changes and additions, then re-save? Or do I have to do everything over from scratch every time? I can't find that option... Only "load" which isn't it.