Designate Toolbar to Monitor

I have 3 toolbars that I have snapped to the sides of each of my 3 monitors.

The Problem:

One of my monitors is a 50inch TV. As such, it behaves strangely. Sometimes, it turns off, sometimes when switching between my PC and my Roku Ultra device, my computer switches to 2 active displays instead of 3. This 50inch TV causes a problem with Directory Opus. Not only that, but whenever I play video games, sometimes a resolution change caused by the video game, will cause the 50inch TV to turn off, which therefore causes the Directory Opus toolbars to reset to my primary monitor.

The Toolbars keep resetting to my primary monitor, even if I have them locked to the other 2 monitors. Here's a screenshot of what it looks like:

I have to unlock 2 of these toolbars, move them to the other 2 displays, then lock them again. I have to do this several times a day, and it's starting to become very annoying.

Feature Request:

Can you implement a feature that allows me to designate each toolbar to a monitor, so that when the displays change, the toolbars return to their designated monitor?

Hopefully that's not too difficult to implement. :slight_smile:

Thanks,
-Neil

I use a hotkey to toggle my docked toolbar and, when turning it on, put it in a fixed place. Works great if an unusual monitor layout forces the toolbar to move, and is also handy if the toolbar gets in the way and I want to hide it.

Toolbar NAME="Leo - Docked" STATE=float APPBAR=bottom TOGGLE POS=0,0

The POS argument will decide which screen the toolbar goes on, based on which monitor those coordinates land on. If needed, you can use Help WINDOWINFO to open a tool which can quickly tell you the toolbar's coordinates.

Interesting. I managed to get it partially working.

What to do if I have 3 of the same toolbar? I'm using 3 of them because I have 3 monitors.

Also, thanks for your super fast response. :+1:

I decided to just duplicate the toolbars for now. This is what I have:

Seems to work. If you can figure out a way for this to work with duplicate toolbars, I'm all ears. :slight_smile:

Side note: I wasn't able to set a hotkey to Ctrl + Shift + Num 9. It kept changing to Ctrl + Shift + Page Up. Weird.

You can open multiple copies of the same toolbar, but I suspect it's the TOGGLE argument that's stopping it from working (since toggle looks to see if the toolbar is already open, and closes it if it is). You could probably make it work using a variable to toggle on.

The Shift variants of numeric keypad's 1, 3, 7, and 9 are End, Page Down, Home, and Page Up. That's a standard definition in Windows. Note that 0 (zero) and . (period) also have Shift variants. Even 2, 4, 6, and 8 are cursor key equivalents.

See picture below.

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