tom-seddon / dispswitch

Move windows from one display monitor to another. (Windows)

dispswitch

dispswitch picks up the window that has focus, and moves it to the next display monitor it can find, whilst trying to roughly preserve the monitor-relative position and (if the window is sizeable) size. If you have multiple monitors, you need this program, and you need it NOW. It will save you lots of time.

It’s designed for use with a hotkey program, such as AutoHotkey, so that you can do this with a single keypress.

download

dispswitch_Win32_Release.exe (from this repo)

AutoHotkey installation

The official approved AutoHotkey configuration is as follows. Add this to your AutoHotkey INI file using Edit This Script on AutoHotkey’s right click menu. Replace c:\bin\ with wherever you saved the EXE to.

#a::Run c:\bin\dispswitch_Win32_Release.exe

Use Reload This Script on AutoHotkey’s right click menu to refresh everything. Then hold Windows key and tap A to move the current window from one monitor to another.

dispswitch's Issues

Don't move Windows 10 start menu

Presumably this is detectable...

Spring clean removed the handling of fixed-size windows

...I think? Test and fix...

Calculation of new window size is wrong with a mixed-DPI Windows 10 setup

e.g., Retina MBP with multiple monitors

Not instantly obvious what's going on, but it looks like there may be a post-SetWindowPos adjustment - when moving to the high DPI monitor, the window is initially moved to the right place, but is then immediately resized to make it twice as large.