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expired Posted by LovelyCheetah | Staff • Aug 9, 2021
Aug 9, 2021 7:00 PM
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I use a 43" in portrait mode on each side of my 48" screen. At the sweet spot distances for viewing the 48" in landscape (38" - 48" to my eyeballs), running even 43" screens in landscape on the sides wouldn't work for my liking. Instead I use the side screens with 3 windows stacked or a 2/3 + 1/3 configuration by default or on the fly, with a few other window arrangements saved to profiles. The side screens are samsung nu6900 VA's (around 6100:1 contrast ratio and accompanying black depths) , so I don't have to worry about burn in on those.
I use displayfusion multi-monitor app with it's own taskbars and duplicated system tray on them which I set to very narrow at the top of my side screens. I hide the windows task bar on my primary oled monitor using a hot key show/hide toggle in an app called taskbar hider. (I could also drag the windows taskbar off of the primary monitor to the top of one of my side monitors if I wanted to). I also use the translucent taskbar app to make the windows taskbar itself transparent.
I use displayfusion functions tied to streamdeck lcd buttons with icons to launch and place all of my most used apps, and to open commonly used windows system panels, etc. It also places the active window wherever I want using streamdeck buttons + hotkeys with LCD buttons outlining window placement locations something like windows 11 is doing (but better imo). I cobbled together some neat multi functions for my most used apps on multiple-presses of the same app button to launch/minimize/restore-to-my-set-home-position-for-that-particular-app. Finally, I have saved window position profiles in displafusion hotkeyed to streamdeck button(s) so I can hit one button and shuffle all of my open apps at once back to where I had saved them in that profile. One single press. I also have a pair of on the fly save/restore positions buttons next to that one.
https://i.imgur.com/EOKDETC.jpg
I can use windows + S key to open search at any time and type the first 2 or three letters of anything which almost always picks up what I want, and then hit enter if it's anything I for some reason don't have mapped to my stream deck.
I use a small usb midi controller with some easy to use software in order to map all of my most used app's audio to sliders and some games to some control knobs. That way I don't have to invoke the global windows system volume overlay (which drops games out of hdr metadata/mode).
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I dedicate the middle OLED as a multimedia and gaming screen. When afk or not using it I use the "turn off the screen" trick to turn off the oled emitters without dropping the screen out of the monitor array. Almost like minimizing the whole screen and restoring it when I want to use it again.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED/com...he_screen/
Imo displayfusion does this better even simply using it's several saved window poisition profile. You can save or invoke each profile from a right click or by using hotkeys tied to each profile slot. It can also do the tiled layouts on right click exactly like windows 11 does and has been able to for years - but Displayfusion also has a metric ton of other window placement and quality of life features that raise it way above anything windows 11 can do.
However - yes at least windows 11 now has saved window layout tiled sets thumbnailed that you can choose from.
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Kind of like using split screens with different percentages of the screen between two apps does on modern android tablets in the opened apps menu, with a thumbnail showing the two actual apps a their opened percentages as a single tile you click to reopen them in those positions.
So at least Win 11 has some baseline functionality in that regard by default. Once you go past a single screen I'd vote displayfusion all the way though.
https://www.displayfusi
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Combine that kind of power with the power of a stream deck via hotkeys along with the stream decks other supporting functions and the sky is the limit.