recoil
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I'm relatively new to DF, so there may be a simple solution to this that I haven't discovered. I have 6 monitors on my Windows 7 system, but don't always use them all, mostly to conserve electricity. So when I don't need the monitors out to the sides, I'll shut them off (if there's a way to make individual monitors go to sleep, that would work also since sleep uses very little electricity, but I'm not aware of such a way).
My use case is as follows:
1. non-work mode - I use 3 monitors (1 HDMI, 1 DisplayPort, 1 DVI)
2. work mode - I use 4, 5, or 6 monitors (1 HDMI, 1 DisplayPort, 1 DVI). Typically in work mode, I'll have all 6 monitors on, and as I wind down to lighter work mode, I power off 1 or 2 of the monitors.
I care about the positions of the windows in work mode, and I'd like to save them. Normally I'll have apps open all week (shutdown once per week on Sunday night), so that should simplify things.
What I'd like to have happen is whenever I turn on all 6 monitors, all windows should automatically go to a particular position (let's call this "layout_6", for 6 monitor layout).
When I power off 1 monitor, all windows should go to the positions specified in "layout_5". When I power off a second monitor, all windows should go to the positions specified in "layout_4", and finally, when I power off a third monitor, all windows should go to the positions specified in "layout_3".
And sleep mode has to factor in as I put the computer into sleep 6 nights per week, so any solution has to survive sleep/wake cycles.
Is this possible and is there an easy way to accomplish this?
Dec 30, 2016 (modified Dec 30, 2016)
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