Dragging a window through two screens I cannot even see from my place is impractical. Monitors in other rooms are used for streaming gameplay mainly and to show tournament information. I personally use six monitors, and not all of them are in the same room. Verdict: Actual Multiple Monitors is the clear winner here, as it handles non-focus scrolling perfectly in any scenario. UltraMon, an application also considered an alternative to DisplayFusion and AMM, has no such feature at all, by the way. This has been pointed out to the developers at least by, but seems to not be prioritized for future updates. Volume² compatibility seems just as good as in AMM, but full Explorer functionality is more important and just not there. However, in an active Explorer window, it will always scroll the pane that has focus, and not the one that the mouse pointer is over. It’s only available in the paid or trial versions, not in the free one. Volume² always recognizes the wheel input.ĭisplayFusion also has a similar feature called “Allow the mouse wheel to scroll windows under the mouse cursor that are not in focus”. To go back to the programs this post is about, one great fact about Actual Multiple Monitors is that its “Scroll inactive windows with the mouse wheel” feature works absolutely flawlessly, better than both KatMouse and WizMouse. The combination of KatMouse / WizMouse and Volume² tends to stop working after some time, and I need to click on the Volume² tray icon to restore the intended behavior. Usually, there is no need to do that, but I personally use Volume², a small tool that allows altering the system audio volume by scrolling over the taskbar or blank desktop space. These work quite well, except they are not reliable at sending scroll inputs to non-Window UI parts. The two I have tried are KatMouse and WizMouse. There have been a few freeware ad-free apps in the past that allowed for scrolling non-focus windows below the mouse pointer. Hovering the mouse cursor over the side bar to the left will still have the mouse wheel scroll the file list, so if I want to scroll the side bar, I need to click on any entry there or the small whitespace in-between first. In the screenshot above, the file list has focus from clicking on “PC”. The one thing that seems to be the same for everyone is that no Windows 10 update has completely fixed the problem so far, so I will stay with 8.1 as long as possible. There are many similar reports on the internet, for example here. In Windows 8.1 and 7, this problem has never occurred. My main computer, for example, has DPC latency spikes that cause one second of audio and video stuttering every 30 minutes when I run Windows 10. Updating to Windows 10 would seem like a solution, however there are quite a number of people for whom Windows 10 introduces a number of problems not present in up to 8.1. For example, if I have many items in the side bar and the main file list, I want to alternate frequently between scrolling the side bar and the file list. In Windows 8.1, Windows 7 and earlier, there is nothing like that, which is often really bothersome. This option works perfectly well for scrolling non-focus Windows, so in Windows 10, no third-party feature for that is necessary. In Windows 10, there is an option to scroll whatever is below the mouse cursor. I think these are features that many people who use a large number of monitors might want, so in this post, I will first focus on these aspects in detail and then go into other features and general program behavior. Allow for quick monitor layout adjustments (resolution, refresh rates, positions) Create a mirror of a window or monitor, so that two different monitors show the same content without needing to use Windows’ “duplicate these screens” feature.Ħ. Put a number of windows into quadrants of a monitor’s screen (for easier file management in a number of places)ĥ. Call a window to the monitor that has the mouse pointerĤ. Send a window to a different screen quickly, with the option to maximize it directlyģ. Send scroll wheel inputs to the program / GUI part directly below the mouse pointerĢ. These are the features that I was hoping to get:ġ. Neither Windows 7, 8.1 nor 10 offer a lot of functionality in that regard, so I’ve spent the last half year or so occasionally using the trial versions of two programs that intend to help with that. I like using multiple monitors and I like being able to arrange, move and use windows between them quickly and in the most automated way possible.
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