After turning on the display, the working window constantly goes down a bit (always) and sometimes the toolbars move to the upper left corner. I dont use sleep mode, the errors occur when I turn off and on the display. To get consistent results, I finally just turned them both off.īottom line: I'm still happy with my purchase, but I hope they can clean things up in a subsequent release so that I can take better advantage of what they seem to promise. Mac mini m1 16GB, Mac OS 12.0.1 (Monterey), Display Acer EB321HQU 32-inch, Illustrator 26.0.1. Display Maid allows you to save and restore window locations based on your display configuration or user created profiles. * I'm still not exactly sure how the preference settings for AutoSave and AutoRestore interact with multiple workspaces. Display Maid allows you to save and restore window locations based on your display configuration or user created profiles. This is counter-intuitive to most preference setting pages. * Similarly, I had to hit enter key in the name field of a workplace setting for it to be saved. As a result, I kept resaving my spaces and overriding what I intended it to do. The use of the terms Space and Workspace were especially confusing, as they appear to represent the same thing. Dont know how to uninstall Display Maid from the Mac computer You can read this article and find some effective ways to remove the application completely. It took both my co-worker and myself several days to start to understand the various settings. Display Maid allows you to save and restore window locations based on your display configuration. Some things I would like to see improved: It is very frustrating to re-arrange my windows after unplugging from a monitor and then returning. I work at my desk in a two monitor environment, but often detach my laptop to go to meetings. There is some definite room for improvement, but even so, this has been the best tool for organizing my windows across multiple displays. I still really want #2 up there and am puzzled that "resize these windows that I don't know what to do with" is the default behavior (maybe there's a system-level reason for that?), but even without that I feel that this app is better than the current 3.3 star rating.Ġ2-13-23: Bringing this back to 4 stars. :)Ġ1-05-21: Updating to 5 stars, I appreciate your continued development. If you weren't told to save it, just leave it alone. I'm finding that DM is "adjusting" windows that I've opened since my last save, and that don't need to be adjusted to a random, unified window size. Toggle to turn off the "scale windows even if I don't know what size they should be" behavior. The only other things that I wish DM had are:ĮDIT: YOU DID THIS ONE, THANK YOU! Ģ. I'm also updating to identify one very irritating bug that I haven't been able to fix even after 1) erasing/resetting the window positions, 2) reinstalling the app, and 3) destroying the preferences: at least half the time I plug a monitor in, Safari makes the foreground window *tiny* and partially off-screen at the bottom, obviously a ridiculous position that no one would ever use. DM has limitations created by macOS, such as the inability to identify which windows are which, so it won't always get things quite right. DS_store files in order to retain window setups. What's a better way to handle this workflow? I'm very tempted to scurry off to Display Maid ( Display Maid - save and restore window layouts) but I've been a longtime BTT user and I want to know how to make it work in this app.Great app that solves an annoying issue, especially for those of us using cloud desktop services (like Google Filestream) that won't store. After hitting the shortcut 5+ times, the layout might actually work with either one or zero windows out of place.A few windows are snapped to the layout and shown, while others are unaffected or still hidden.Everything is hidden, nothing opens or is shown or applied to the layout. When I trigger this shortcut, it doesn't really work.
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