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In a multi-monitor setup, an app can launch on any monitor. I'm using Visual Studio 2019 as an example here, but it happens to all applications.
I have three monitors, and launching VS meant that the app (the new open project/ clone or checkout window) opened on my primary monitor (where the mouse was) in the centre. Exactly where I'd expect it.
A few minutes later (after installing an extension), I closed, waited for the installation, and re-opened.
Only this time, it appears on a different monitor and behind other applications – my mouse, if that’s relevant, is still on the primary monitor. This behaviour is consistent in its inconsistency. In that the application can launch on seemingly any monitor.
This has been a problem in Windows for years. And while it can appear to be a minor issue, it’s actually one of the biggest productivity issues lurking in Windows today.
The reason is simple if you continue looking at other examples of poorly managed windows positioning.
A multi-monitor setup made from DisplayPort monitors have a fundamental problem. From what I can gather, when a monitor goes into sleep mode it’s like it’s being unplugged. So, when the computer comes out of sleep mode, each – three in this case – monitors are seen as being freshly plugged in.
This means that all of the applications that had been carefully positioned are now scattered across the monitor setup in a random order.
Now as it turns out, due to the layout of the graphics cards, the monitors are physically ordered in position 2 - 1 - 3 according to Windows Display, with monitor 1 being the primary or main monitor.
Now, when I have Slack snapped and taking 50% of monitor 2 and a snapped floating window from Visual Studio taking the remaining 50%. Visual Studio taking up all of monitor 1 and then browsers and command windows (cmder.net obviously!) and explorer etc on monitor 3 in various forms of floating window or maximised, when Windows returns from sleep this carefully curated suite of applications are randomised in their position and their size.
Now I spend the time re-arranging everything back to how it was…how I’m productive. Only I need to do this every single time my computer sleeps. Every time I go for a coffee, answer the phone, talk to a colleague. Every single time.
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I have three monitors, and launching VS meant that the app (the new open project/ clone or checkout window) opened on my primary monitor (where the mouse was) in the centre. Exactly where I'd expect it.
A few minutes later (after installing an extension), I closed, waited for the installation, and re-opened.
Only this time, it appears on a different monitor and behind other applications – my mouse, if that’s relevant, is still on the primary monitor. This behaviour is consistent in its inconsistency. In that the application can launch on seemingly any monitor.
This has been a problem in Windows for years. And while it can appear to be a minor issue, it’s actually one of the biggest productivity issues lurking in Windows today.
The reason is simple if you continue looking at other examples of poorly managed windows positioning.
A multi-monitor setup made from DisplayPort monitors have a fundamental problem. From what I can gather, when a monitor goes into sleep mode it’s like it’s being unplugged. So, when the computer comes out of sleep mode, each – three in this case – monitors are seen as being freshly plugged in.
This means that all of the applications that had been carefully positioned are now scattered across the monitor setup in a random order.
Now as it turns out, due to the layout of the graphics cards, the monitors are physically ordered in position 2 - 1 - 3 according to Windows Display, with monitor 1 being the primary or main monitor.
Now, when I have Slack snapped and taking 50% of monitor 2 and a snapped floating window from Visual Studio taking the remaining 50%. Visual Studio taking up all of monitor 1 and then browsers and command windows (cmder.net obviously!) and explorer etc on monitor 3 in various forms of floating window or maximised, when Windows returns from sleep this carefully curated suite of applications are randomised in their position and their size.
Now I spend the time re-arranging everything back to how it was…how I’m productive. Only I need to do this every single time my computer sleeps. Every time I go for a coffee, answer the phone, talk to a colleague. Every single time.
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