Download DisplayFusion 5.1

Binary Fortress Software has released version 5.1 of DisplayFusion. With this program it is possible to manage a multimonitor setup. For example, a separate background or screensaver can be set per screen and programs can be opened on a screen to be determined by the user. A license costs about 13 euros, or 18 euros for all computers in a household. There is also a free version, but of course it has less opportunities. More information about DisplayFusion is on this page. The changelog of this release shows the following changes and improvements:

Changes:

• New Feature: Monitor Splitting for creating smaller, virtual monitors out of your large monitors (in the Monitor Configuration window)
• New Feature: Circular mouse wrapping (cursor wraps from one edge back to the opposite edge)
• New Feature: Prevent mouse cursor from snagging on unaligned monitor edges
• New Feature: Automatically move child windows over the parent (Settings > Window Management)
• New Feature: Scroll whatever window is under the cursor using the mouse wheel (Settings > Window Management)
• Monitor Configuration and Profiles now support Cloned Monitors
• Windows 8.1 compatibility
• Added InterfaceLIFT as a wallpaper provider
• New Function: “Toggle Window Snapping”
• New Function: Move Mouse Cursor to Next Monitor
• New Function: Move Mouse Cursor to Previous Monitor
• New Function: Launch Application
• New Function: Frame Windows 8 Metro Application (creates a window for the Metro app and allows you to use it on the normal desktop)
• New Function: Move Mouse Cursor to Specified Location
• New Function: Move Mouse Cursor to Center of Current Monitor
• New Function: Move Mouse Cursor to Center of Active Window
• New Function: Move Mouse Cursor to Center of Monitor #X
• Locked mouse cursor can now be moved by a DisplayFusion function and re-locked automatically
• Wallpaper window now supports Windows 7+ Libraries
• Multiple tags can now be selected for the WallpaperFusion image provider
• Tags can now be excluded from the WallpaperFusion image provider
• Added History support to the online plugins to prevent duplicate images loading (history is per-monitor)
• Added support for environment variables in paths for: Window Location rules, Compatibility rules and Taskbar Shortcuts
• Added an option in the Settings window to login and automatically load your License Key
• The mouse cursor is now shown when mirroring application windows
• Taskbar button positions are now remembered between taskbar reloads
• Generated wallpaper images are now uncompressed and super-high quality by default (Win7 and higher)
• DFCommand now supports settings backup from the command line
• Trying to load an already loaded Wallpaper Profile will force the next image to load
• Multiple applications can be specified in one Compatibility rule using the | symbol
• Wallpaper window UI improvements
• Asian language UI improvements
• New admin policy to disable the Advanced Settings button
• New Advanced Setting: Don’t Show Desktop Window in Alt+Tab
• New Advanced Setting: Disable Sound Effects
• New Advanced Setting: Font Scaling Force X
• New Advanced Setting: Font Scaling Force Y
• New Advanced Setting: TitleBar Button Icon Offset Horizontal
• New Advanced Setting: TitleBar Button Icon Offset Vertical
• New Advanced Setting: Generate Smaller Wallpaper Files (lower quality)
• New Advanced Setting: Disable Touch Detection
• New Advanced Setting: Mouse Cursor Lock adjustment values ​​can now be set separately for each side
• New Advanced Setting: Prevent the taskbar from being forced bottom-most when the screen saver is running
• New Advanced Setting: Adjust the TitleBar Button separator size
• New Advanced Setting: Disable the taskbar button tooltips when previews are disabled
• New Advanced Setting: Disable Aero transparency in Windows 8

Fixed:

• Improved Taskbar performance, stability and application compatibility
• Improved TitleBar Button performance, stability and application compatibility
• Improved Window Location performance, stability and application compatibility
• Improved Window Snapping performance, stability and application compatibility
• Improved Classic Shell compatibility
• Improved Window Blinds compatibility
• Improved Dexpot compatibility
• Improved support for alternate Start Menus in Windows 8
• Wallpaper provider image history improvements
• Installer improvements
• Resolved an issue that caused some Screen Savers to appear as “Unknown”
• Taskbar shortcuts for Windows Explorer folders now use /e instead of /n to open
• Launching a DisplayFusion pinned item as admin no longer loses the command line parameters
• No Longer shows the font scaling warning when not needed
• Taskbar buttons no longer lose their overlay icons when moving back to the Windows taskbar
• Load Next Monitor Profile function is now more reliable
• Visual Studio code windows can now be spanned
• Visual Studio no longer crashes when debugging on some computers
• No longer crashes when toggling DWM on Vista with some computers
• Mouse cursor now snaps to new window position with Window Location feature when needed
• Resolved a few hook related performance issues
• Taskbar jump lists are no longer slow to open for some items
• Taskbar jump list items no longer use the wrong names in some cases
• Window Location no longer moves Windows 8 system windows (like the Charms bar)
• Compatibility rules no longer disable application hooks unexpectedly
• Uninstaller now removes the DisplayFusionService all the time
• Taskbar pinned items on network shares now have icons
• Launching a second instance of an application from the DF taskbar now follows the Window Location rules
• The transparent taskbar with WindowBlinds is being fixed in the next beta of WindowBlinds, keep an eye out for it!
• “Ignore alternate start menus” now ignores them in more places correctly
• Alternate start menu start buttons no longer have a black outline in Win8.1
• Launching pinned Explorer folders no longer gives an error in some situations
• Classic Start Menu (Classic Shell) 3.9.x (4.0 beta) is now supported
• Taskbar will now reload itself if the workarea reservation is lost
• Alt+Tab improvements
• Application menus no longer open behind the DisplayFusion Taskbar in Windows 8
• Taskbar is no longer forced to the bottom of the monitor when a Metro app is snapped to the edge
• Middle-clicking a taskbar button to open a new instance now correctly passes the command line parameters
• Performance improvements through more registry caching
• Mouse no longer jumps to the Windows taskbar in some situations
• Taskbar icon rendering improvements
• Resolved a few issues related to wallpaper changes: flickering icons, focus changes, cursor jumping… etc
• Fixed an issue that caused the wallpaper info tags to say “Unknown”
• Improved taskbar detection for RDP/console logins
• Resolved an issue that prevented the Windows Logon image from changing to the current wallpaper in Windows 8
• Resolved an issue with Google Chrome and Window Location rules
• Resolved an issue that could cause Firefox to move to another monitor when closing a tab
• No longer receive “CurrentMonitor is null” when reverting a monitor setup change in Windows 8
• Pinned Jump List sections now support custom sorting (when sorted on the Windows taskbar Jump List)
• Tray clock on XP is no longer cutoff in some situations
• DisplayFusion windows are no longer slow to open on some machines without an internet connection (code signing certificate checking)
• Windows Logon setting “use current wallpaper” now works in Windows 8 as expected
• Taskbar no longer gets trapped behind fullscreen windows
• Taskbar no longer disappears when Win+D is used
• TitleBar Buttons are no longer hidden on some top-tabs browsers
• Windows Logon preview is now shown correctly when using the current wallpaper
• Resolved some Desktop Icons profile saving issues
• Resolved an issue with Flickr that caused a “No one could be found” message to repeatedly appear
• Citrix windows are no longer ignored by DisplayFusion
• Backup Settings button no longer requires elevation and now works to network drives
• Resolved an issue that caused the Wallpaper window to sometimes have scrollbars
• Resolved an issue that prevented the wallpaper History feature to not work for some local images
• Resolved an issue that caused the Jump Lists to hang for some processes
• Resolved an issue that caused timers to stack then fire all at once
• Windows Logon now works correctly when using your desktop wallpaper as the image
• Unpinning shortcuts now works even when your taskbar buttons aren’t combined
• Fixed an issue that causes quoted paths to fail for certain features (Window Location, Compatibility… etc)