Dual Monitor Tools
Changes from 2.10 to 2.11
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DMT:Cursor Fix for issue where stickiness stops working
DMT:Wallpaper New option to stop wallpaper changing when gaming or doing presentations
DMT:Snap Fix for snaps shown on wrong monitor in certain circumstances
DMT: Better handling of monitor resolution changes
DMT: F13 to F24 can now be used as hotkeys
Changes from 2.9 to 2.10
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DMT:Wallpaper User can select wallpaper to be saved as JPEG, PNG or BMP
DMT:Wallpaper Any image files that can't be loaded are now logged
DMT:SwapScreen On initial install, the UDAs are no longer automatically added as magic words
DMT:Cursor Fix for cases where some display resolution changes were not noticed
Changes from 2.8.1 to 2.9
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DMT:Cursor can now specify a primary group of monitors using a GUI
DMT:General monitor brightness/contrast can now be adjusted with delta values
DMT:Wallpaper new provider that takes a list of image files/URLs
Changes from 2.8 to 2.8.1
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Temporary release (all changes will be absorbed into 2.9)
DMT:General Monitors grid fix for sizes/areas of rotated monitors
DMT:General Monitors grid, can now view / adjust contrast (if supported by monitor)
DMT:Cursor Introduced the concept of a group of primary monitors
When a group of primary monitors is specified, the "Allow cursor to return
freely to the primary screen" can now be read as "Allow cursor to return
freely to any monitor in the primary group".
If a (valid) group of primary monitors is not specified, then the original
functionality will be retained.
A GUI will be added for 2.9 to specify which monitors belong to the primary
group.
For now, it needs to be done my manually editing the DmtSettings.xml file.
The location of this file can be determined from Options->"Dual Monitor
Tools"->General->Settings".
Make sure DMT is not running when you edit this file.
If you have 4 monitors, which would be 1, 2, 3, 4 and you want to make 2 and 3
act as the primary group, then add a line like:
<setting name="Cursor__PrimaryGroup" value="2,3" />
within the <settings> ... </settings> block.
(Note there are two underscore characters between "Cursor" and
"PrimaryGroup".)
If you then start DMT and have sticky/locked cursor in force and the "Allow cursor
to return freely to the primary screen" checked, then you will be able to move
the cursor freely between screens 2 and 3 and onto these screens from the
other screens, but the sticky/locked operation will apply if you try to move
the cursor onto screens 1 and 4.
Changes from 2.7 to 2.8
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DMT New monitor numbering/ordering
The default numbering of monitors has changed in 2.8 so that monitors are now
numbered left to right and then top to bottom instead of the old ordering
provided by the .NET API. If this is an issue for you, then you can go into
Options -> 'Dual Monitor Tools' -> 'Monitor Order' and select 'DotNet order,
as used by DMT v2.7 and earlier'.
DMT:Wallpaper added support for wallpapers from Bing
DMT:Wallpaper can show images from local disk in alphabetical order
DMT:Wallpaper handles failure to download images better
DMT:Cursor allows cursor to move via dead space for non rectangular layouts
DMT:Snap can specify monitor to put snap on
Changes from 2.6 to 2.7
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DMT:Wallpaper changer image fill method is more configurable
DMT:Wallpaper changer properties show a few more details
DMT:Wallpaper changer updated for change to Unsplash website
DMT:SwapScreen SDA option to put (transparent) border on outside of SDA
Changes from 2.5 to 2.6
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DMT:SwapScreen now allows up to 100 user defined areas
DMT:SwapScreen added system defined areas for each screen/half/quarter
DMT:SwapScreen fix for snap up/down/left/right when taskbar at (0, 0)
DMT:Wallpaper changer can now enable/disable providers from grid
DMT:Cursor fix for cursor sometimes passing to another screen when it shouldn't
Changes from 2.4 to 2.5
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DMT:Wallpaper changer fixed flicker when using smooth changing
DMT:SwapScreen added a parametised "ShowDesktop" command
DMT:Wallpaper changer added a new URL image provider
DMT:Wallpaper changer Unsplash image provider has more configuration
DMT:Wallpaper changer new option to cycle though all local disk images before repeating
DMT:SwapScreen new hotkey to show desktop that cursor is on
DMT:SwapScreen option to reset the UDAs
DMT:SwapScreen "ShowDesktop" now supports up to 16 monitors
DmtWallpaper screen saver added
Changes from 2.3 to 2.4
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DMT:General now shows information about monitors
DMT:General can now change active monitor
DMT:General can now change monitor brightness
DMT can now be closed from the command line with -x option
DMT:Cursor fix for remembering free movement key
DMT:Snap fix for snaps that are smaller then secondary on one dimension only
DMT:SwapScreen fix for 'Next Screen' when taskbar at left or top of monitor
DMT:Wallpaper changer obeys exif orientation flag
DMT:Wallpaper changer temporary fix for Unsplash images
Changes from 2.2 to 2.3
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Installer now available.
DMT:SwapScreen fix for when swapping top 2 windows
DMT:WallpaperChanger makes sure correct wallpaper mode used if using smooth
changes
DMT:Cursor fix for cursor not sticky after Ctrl-Alt-Del
DMT No longer allows multiple instances of its GUI interface to be run
Changes from 2.1 to 2.2
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Magic words can be run from a batch file with: DMT "DMT:Launcher:Activate magic-word"
DMT:Snap hotkey added to snap active window
DMT:Snap snap shown same size (pixel basis) as original with options to scale
DMT:WallpaperChanger LocalDisk can specify different directories for each monitor
DMT:WallpaperChanger LocalDisk can specify a single image rather than a directory
Changes from 2.0 to 2.1
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Now just needs the client profile subset of the .NET 4 framework, rather than the full version
DMT Actions can now be performed from the command line / batch files
DMT File locations are shown in options for troubleshooting
DMT:Cursor Option to allow mouse buttons to be used to cross cursor boundaries
DMT:Cursor Added hotkey to move cursor to center of primary monitor
DMT:SwapScreen fixed hotkey to move active window to previous monitor
DMT:WallpaperChanger has crossfade option for changing wallpaper
DMT:WallpaperChanger shows details of images used in wallpaper
DMT:WallpaperChanger Flickr added as an image provider
DMT:WallpaperChanger Can choose different local disk folder for monitors in portrait orientation
DMT:WallpaperChanger Unsplash provider updated for changes to their website
Changes from 1.10 to 2.0
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New tool DMT provides the functionality previously provided by SwapScreen,
DualLauncher, DualSnap and DualWallpaperChanger together with extra functionality.
DMT now easier to use from a portable device.
All features within DMT can be launched with 'Magic Words'.
DisMon has been dropped for the time being.
Changes from 1.9 to 1.10
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Functional:
Added new tool Dual Wallpaper Changer
DualWallpaper has limited support for being run from the command line or batch scripts
SwapScreen has a choice for key to use to allow cursor to move between screens
Bug fixes:
SwapScreen should now work better with touch screens
DualWallpaper interpolation mode changed to improve image quality
Changes from 1.8 to 1.9
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Functional:
DualWallpaper now supports drag and drop (thanks to Nithin Philips for this)
SwapScreen has new hotkey to allow the top two windows to be be swapped
SwapScreen has 4 new hotkeys for snap left/right/up/down
Windows 8 support:
DualWallpaper works with win 8 when primary monitor not left/top most
Bug fixes:
SwapScreen has improved handling of configuration saving problems
DualWallpaper supports DPI scaling other than 100%
DualWallpaper now also supports .jpeg (with an e) extension for input images
Changes from 1.7 to 1.8
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Functional:
SwapScreen now allows you to move the active window to any of 10 user defined areas
SwapScreen now has an option to allow sticky/locked cursors to return freely to the primary screen
The background colour can now be set in DualWallpaper
Option -n added to DisMon to stop it from restoring the monitors to their original state before it exits
Option -x added to DisMon to tell it to change monitor states and exit
Bug fixes:
Cancelling the 'Change hotkey' dialog did not always leave the hotkey unchanged
In DualLauncher, the disable hotkey operation did not disable the hotkey
Other:
Changes to SwapScreen to reduce memory allocations
Changes from 1.6 to 1.7
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Functional:
DualSnap now has hotkey to toggle display of snap.
SwapScreen can set default cursor mode at startup.
DualSnap, DualLauncher and SwapScreen now allow more keys to be used as hotkeys.
Bug fixes:
SwapScreen cursor locking/stickiness had problems with some layouts with screens with different resolutions.
DualWallpaper would crash if it couldn't write to a wallpaper.
DualLauncher could sometimes forget its default screen position.
SwapScreen fix to hooking which could cause problems if other programs also hook the mouse and/or keyboard.
Other:
DualSnap options window re-arranged so hotkey editing is in same style as the other tools.
Changes from 1.5 to 1.6
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Functional:
Added new tool DualLauncher.
Bug fixes:
SwapScreen handles supersized windows correctly when taskbar
stretches across entire desktop.
Other:
DualWallpaper interface cleaned up to fit on smaller screens.
Changes from 1.4 to 1.5
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Functional:
SwapScreen's 'Minimise Active Window' now works as a toggle.
SwapScreen now has a portable mode where its settings can live
in the same directory as the executable.
DisMon can now also change the primary monitor.
Command line interface to Dismon changed for better flexibility.
Other:
DisMon7 functionality (for Windows 7) now incorporated into DisMon.
Changes from 1.3 to 1.4
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Functional:
Added SwapScreen can now restrict cursor movement between screens.
Other:
New icons and about box images used.
Changes from 1.2 to 1.3
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Functional:
Added new tool DisMon and DisMon7.
Added 'start when Windows starts' to SwapScreen and DualSnap.
Added zoom and center fit to DualWallpaper.
Changes from 1.1 to 1.2
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Functional:
Added new tool DualWallpaper.
Added 9 new hotkeys to SwapScreen.
Bug fixes:
Fixed menu scrolling problem in DualSnap.
Changes from 1.0 to 1.1
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Functional:
Added new tool DualSnap.
Other:
Added link from SwapScreen's context menu to website.
