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(@dough)
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I'm running 3 monitors on my desktop.  Always had DTI on the left most monitor #3.  Just upgraded my main monitor #2.  But now DTI is loading on monitor #1.  I got the current version 4/6/25 of DTI

[ #3 ] [ #2 ] [ #1 ]  

I just added the line monitor-mode=0 after the I got the new monitor trying to move DTI.  Is the easy fix to just rearange my monitor numbers in Win10?

[options]
# size and position
monitor-mode=0
monitor-num=3
top=20
right=25
width=400
auto-scale=0
nav=0

 



   
Glenn
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did changing the monitor change the display arrangement in Windows?

also, numbering is the thing here. 0 is the primary monitor, 1 is the second monitor, 2 is the third monitor. If you specified monitor-num=3 then it would find no fourth monitor so it goes back to the primary monitor.  See page 12.



   
Glenn
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I was able to test on a 3 monitor system today and can see the issue.  The display code may have changed subtly. Add display-change=1 to the [options].



   
Glenn
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Hrm, there's more to this. Apparently the list of monitors don't exactly align with Window's list of monitors. The internal list is not being refreshed correctly after a hardware change.



   
Glenn
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It turns out this is a well known "bug". I've added an option that will allow us to identify a monitor using virtual desktop co-ordinates relative to the primary display.



   
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