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Working with Monitor Splits

March 28, 2017
Monitor Splitting is a feature that allows you to divide your physical monitors into smaller "virtual" monitors. Split sections can have their own desktop wallpaper, taskbar, and screen saver.
Monitor Splitting can be used on any type of monitor setup. Here are a few example uses of the Monitor Splitting feature:
Note: Maximizing an application will constrain it to the split sections, instead of the entire monitor, however, it's not currently possible to constrain full screen videos or full screen games to monitor splits.
  • Reserve space for widgets or narrow applications: Have some desktop widgets or a narrow application like an instant messaging contact list? You can reserve some space on the left or right side of the monitor, and maximize your other applications to the remaining space.
  • Ultra-wide monitors: Ultra-wide monitors are a great alternative to running two separate monitors. Using DisplayFusion Monitor Splitting, you can split your ultra-wide monitor into two sections, so that you can easily maximize two applications side-by-side.
  • Surround/Eyefinity splitting: By splitting your Surround or Eyefinity setup, you can continue to enjoy your games and videos in Surround/Eyefinity spanning, while still having taskbars, wallpaper, and regular applications confined to individual monitors.
  • Open the DisplayFusion Monitor Configuration window by right-clicking the DisplayFusion tray icon and clicking "Monitor Configuration" (also accessible via the Options tab in Settings).
    Tray Menu - Monitor Configuration
  • In the DisplayFusion Monitor Configuration window, select the monitor you want to split, and click the "Splits and Padding" button.
    Splits and Padding
There are several pre-defined split configurations available via the "Preset Splits" button. You can start by choosing one of those configurations, then customize from there. You can also create your split setup from scratch using the "Horizontal Split" button to split the monitor into side-by-side sections, or the "Vertical Split" button to split the monitor into top/bottom sections.
Below are some example setups and the steps required to configure them.
  • Follow the steps above in the Adding Monitor Splits section to reach this screen.
  • In the Splits and Padding window, click the "Preset Splits" button, and choose the "2x1" option.
    2x1 Preset
  • Click OK, then OK again.
  • Follow the steps above in the Adding Monitor Splits section to reach this screen.
  • In the Splits and Padding window, click the "Preset Splits" button, and choose the "2x1" option.
    2x1 Preset
  • Enable the "Auto-Fill All Splits" checkbox.
    Enable Auto-Fill
  • Click the left split to select it, then change the "Width" value in the "Size" box to
    1344
    and press tab to update the preview.
    1344 Width
  • Click OK, then OK again.
If you're running an NVIDIA Surround or AMD Eyefinity setup without bezel compensation enabled, the quickest way to get up and running with Monitor Splitting is to enable the "Auto-split Eyefinity and NVIDIA Surround monitors" option in the DisplayFusion Monitor Configuration window.
  • Open the DisplayFusion Monitor Configuration window by right-clicking the DisplayFusion tray icon and clicking "Monitor Configuration" (also accessible via the Options tab in Settings).
    Tray Menu - Monitor Configuration
  • Enable the "Auto-split Eyefinity and nVidia Surround monitors" checkbox.
    Auto-split
  • Click OK or Apply. You should now have taskbars on each monitor.
Note that on NVIDIA Surround setups, you'll be prompted to disable the NVIDIA Surround helper processes. It's important that you answer Yes and immediately reboot, if you plan to keep Monitor Splitting enabled. If you answer No, you'll run into some weird quirks with the taskbars when entering/exiting full screen games.
For Monitor Splits in Surround/Eyefinity setups with bezel compensation enabled, see Configuring Monitor Splits for Bezel Correction.
Monitor Padding provides reserved space without creating a split. Monitor Padding affects the size of maximized windows in the non-padded area, but not other features like the taskbars, desktop wallpaper, or screen saver. Application windows will only maximize to the non-padded area, where splits allow application windows to maximize within the full size of the split.
Here's how to configure Monitor Padding to reserve some space on the right side of the monitor:
  • Follow the steps above Adding Monitor Splits to reach this screen.
  • Enter a value (in pixels) in the right side numeric box in the "Padding" section (e.g. 500).
    Padding
  • Click OK or Apply. You should now have taskbars on each monitor.
In the DisplayFusion Monitor Configuration window, you can enable or disable the Screen Savers, Wallpaper, Taskbars, and Window Management for use with splits. If one of these checkboxes is disabled, that feature will ignore the Monitor Splitting configuration, and instead treat the monitor as the full display. This is useful if you want to have application windows constrained to the splits, while leaving the taskbars, wallpaper, and screen savers the full size of the monitor.
  • Open the DisplayFusion Monitor Configuration window by right-clicking the DisplayFusion tray icon and clicking "Monitor Configuration" (also accessible via the Options tab in Settings).
    Tray Menu - Monitor Configuration
  • Enable/Disable your desired features and click OK or Apply.
    Features with Splits
  1. Click the "Show Preview" button in the Splits and Padding window to show the split lines on the monitor itself. Hit Escape or click the "Hide Preview" button to exit. You can adjust splits while the preview is showing.
    Show Preview
  2. Hold the Shift key while clicking the maximize button on a window to override the splits and maximizing the window to the full monitor.

DisplayFusion 8.1.2 Now Available!

December 23, 2016

We're very excited to announce that DisplayFusion 8.1.2 is now available for download! This release fixes an issue that prevented the "Astronomy Picture of the Day" wallpaper provider from loading images, and adds the ability for DisplayFusion to use TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 to connect to online wallpaper providers.

Updating DisplayFusion

We encourage everyone to update to this new version today to take advantage of these improvements. If you've already purchased DisplayFusion, it's a lifetime license, so you can upgrade to this version at no cost! If you would like to see a complete list of all the changes, please visit the DisplayFusion Change Log. We'd like to send out a big thanks to the dozens of people who helped with the DisplayFusion translations, and the thousands of people that helped test the Beta versions. Thanks everyone!

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The 2016 Year End Sale is Here!

December 22, 2016

Update: The sale is over, thanks everyone!

It's that time of year again! Help us celebrate the holidays and ring in the New Year with some fantastic deals on all of our software!

We're offering all of our products at a sale price of up to 50% off, until January 2nd!

If you're not familiar with all of our apps, feel free to check them out on our More Apps page.

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The 2016 American Thanksgiving Sale is Here!

November 24, 2016

Happy American Thanksgiving everyone! To celebrate, all of our products are on sale at up to 50% off until November 29th!

If you're not familiar with all of our apps, feel free to check them out on our More Apps page.

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DisplayFusion 8.1.1 Now Available!

October 31, 2016

We're very excited to announce that DisplayFusion 8.1.1 is now available for download! This release fixes up a few issues that were discovered in DisplayFusion 8.1.

  • Resolved an issue where Universal (Metro) apps were missing from the Alt+Tab window
  • Resolved an issue where Universal (Metro) apps were missing from the Taskbars
  • Resolved an issue where Universal (Metro) apps didn't get TitleBar Buttons
  • Resolved an issue that caused the Taskbars to blink in some situations

Updating DisplayFusion

We encourage everyone to update to this new version today to take advantage of these improvements. If you've already purchased DisplayFusion, it's a lifetime license, so you can upgrade to this version at no cost! If you would like to see a complete list of all the changes, please visit the DisplayFusion Change Log. We'd like to send out a big thanks to the dozens of people who helped with the DisplayFusion translations, and the thousands of people that helped test the Beta versions. Thanks everyone!

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DisplayFusion 8.1 Now Available!

October 27, 2016

We're very excited to announce that DisplayFusion 8.1 is now available for download! This release adds an option for reducing the space between TitleBar Buttons in Windows 10, adds the option to disable wallpaper autofix back in, and contains a handful of bug fixes.

DisplayFusion 8.1 Highlights

  • Added a "Condense TitleBar Buttons" option on to reduce the space between them on Windows 10
  • Added the option to disable wallpaper autofix back into the Wallpaper Settings window
  • New Advanced Setting to disable the monitor ID's in the monitor selector window
  • Mouse wheel now works in the Alt+Tab Handler
  • Window Created trigger event no longer fires when a window is focused
  • Pinterest now shows images from boards with spaces in the name
  • Jump Lists for non-running pinned apps now show recent/pinned items
  • Changes Monitor Profiles now activates the Trigger event correctly all the time
  • Mouse cursor is now shown correctly over mirrored windows
  • Hooks no longer cause Explorer.exe to freak out when Aero colour changing is enabled
  • 42 languages bundled (if you'd like to help translate DisplayFusion into your language, please contact us)
  • Many other performance, stability and bug fixes

Updating DisplayFusion

We encourage everyone to update to this new version today to take advantage of these improvements. If you've already purchased DisplayFusion, it's a lifetime license, so you can upgrade to this version at no cost! If you would like to see a complete list of all the changes, please visit the DisplayFusion Change Log. We'd like to send out a big thanks to the dozens of people who helped with the DisplayFusion translations, and the thousands of people that helped test the Beta versions. Thanks everyone!

DisplayFusion 8.1 Screenshots

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