I often work at the office using dual screen and at home using single screen. The window layout of Visual Studio 2010 is messing with me. I want to save/restore the layout so that I can quickly "sw...

I am using multiple monitors and I prefer to have my Visual Studio open in the center one and I would like the application that I am testing / running through Visual Studio open on either left or r...

I would like to find out which monitor the mouse is on so I can create a window on that monitor. This is different to which is the main screen, because NSScreen.main returns whichever screen has t...

Is there a way to use the Windows APIs to detect if a particular monitor is a projector (beamer) rather than a screen? (I'm writing a projection mapping desktop application, and I'd like it to aut...

In Windows XP and above, given a window handle (HWND), how can I tell if the window position and size leaves the window irretrievably off screen? For example, if the title bar is available to the c...

I've currently connected two monitors via a dock to my notebook. When I'm running my console application, the console window always pops up on the first monitor. How can I change that it's automati...

I am trying to grab the friendly name for the monitors on my system. I am using C#. I have tried Screen, which just gives me //./DisplayXX. I have also tried both Win32_DesktopMonitor and EnumDisp...

Is there any way to stop a WPF Popup from repositioning itself when it goes off-screen? I found this old question, but it didn't get a proper answer to it. Is there any way to do this? I'm willing...

The presentation display modes are those you see when using the Windows+p shortcut: Computer Only Duplicate Extend Projector Only Do any API calls exist which allow one to switch between these di...

According to the MSDN documentation for the WindowStartupLocation Property: Setting CenterScreen causes a window to be positioned in the center of the screen that contains the mouse cursor. Al...

I am using the following test setup (Latest meaning as of July 14th 2012): Core i7 with an ATI FirePro V9800 (Eyefinity) Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit (latest updates / patches) Latest Catalyst drivers La...

i bought a new TV mainly as second monitor to my PC and I often need to change settings (extend display for movies, duplicate display for gaming, disable for work'n'browsing). Is there a way to sw...

I want to obtain a monitor handle (HMONITOR) that can be used with the Windows multi-monitor APIs for a specific monitor attached to the system by index. For example, say I have three monitors atta...

I would like to make a Per-Monitor DPI-Aware Direct2D application. I have extended Microsoft's "First Direct2D Program" example to handle WM_DPICHANGED as explained in Kenny Kerr's MSDN article. Th...

I'm trying to use print screen image area to get 2 monitors, but only works for one monitor. Can you advise me how to get figure 2 monitors? Robot robot = new Robot(); Rectangle screenRect = n...

When I type dot and press ctrl+space, I see a pop-up with list of possible methods. when I press ctrl+q i see another pop-up with javadoc for the selected method. The problem is half of the popup...

I have two monitors (HP EliteDisplay E190i), both are connected to two computers (2x VGA + DP). These monitors also support DVI, so instead of having a stupid toggle button, every time I wish to ch...

I'm using WPF in C# I want to begin with multi monitor programming, that mean the app will display on many monitors with different views. I have searched on internet, and I have got the approach ...

I have just installed IntelliJ 9.0.2 on a machine running 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04. How do I get another window to put on my second screen? I would like to have both an editor and some tool windows on...

Preface First of all, I am very well aware that webapps should not fiddle with window size or position. Been through a lot of similar SO questions and forum posts. But this is a special case, whe...

I have two monitors. I have Eclipse open on the second monitor but when I run my JavaFX code, the JavaFX window always opens up in the first monitor and every time I have to drag it to the second m...

I have been working on a solution for identifying display devices (telivisions in my case) to keep the main layout which is especially designed to use multi-monitors. Let's say I have 6 televisions...

Is there a Windows API to detect if a laptop lid is closed (= integrated laptop screen is off)? There's already the "same" question asked: Get current laptop lid state Though the (self-)accepte...

I am building a Win7/8/10 x64 Direct3D11 desktop application that allows the user to switch between windowed and fullscreen mode (proper dedicated fullscreen mode, not just a maximized window*). On...

As a two-monitor user at work, I've noticed that applications behave differently with regards to what monitor they open on (primary or secondary monitor, the last monitor the application opened on,...