What's new in Dual Monitor Tools 2.10.0.0
Aug 28, 2023
- 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
New in Dual Monitor Tools 2.9.0.0 (Apr 11, 2023)
- Cursor sticky/lock can allow free movement withing a group of monitors.
- New wallpaper provider that takes a list of image files/URLs.
- Monitor contrast can now be adjusted (if supported by monitor).
- Brightness (+ Contrast) can be adjusted with delta values.
- Fix for monitor grid for rotated monitors.
New in Dual Monitor Tools 2.8.1.0 (Nov 24, 2022)
- 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.
New in Dual Monitor Tools 2.8.0.0 (Oct 18, 2021)
- New monitor numbering using left-right order.
- Wallpaper changer has support for wallpapers from Bing.
- Wallpaper changer can show images from local disk in alphabetical order.
- Wallpaper handles failure to download images better.
- Cursor can now move via dead space on non rectangular layouts.
- Snap can specify monitor to put snap on.
New in Dual Monitor Tools 2.7.0.0 (Jun 5, 2018)
- Wallpaper changer image fill method is more configurable.
- Wallpaper changer properties show a few more details.
- Wallpaper changer updated for change to Unsplash website.
- Wallpaper changer can now enable/disable providers from grid.
- SwapScreen SDA option to put (transparent) border on outside of SDA.
New in Dual Monitor Tools 2.6.0.0 (Jul 24, 2017)
- SwapScreen now allows up to 100 user defined areas.
- SwapScreen added system defined areas for each screen/half/quarter.
- SwapScreen fix for snap up/down/left/right when taskbar at (0, 0).
- Wallpaper changer can now enable/disable providers from grid.
- Cursor fix for cursor sometimes passing to another screen when it shouldn't.
New in Dual Monitor Tools 2.5.0.0 (Jan 2, 2017)
- DMT:
- Wallpaper changer fixed flicker when using smooth changing.
- SwapScreen has a new parametised "ShowDesktop" command.
- Wallpaper changer has a new URL image provider.
- Wallpaper changer Unsplash image provider has more configuration options.
- Wallpaper changer has new option to cycle though all local disk images before repeating.
- SwapScreen has new hotkey to show desktop that cursor is on.
- SwapScreen option to reset the UDAs.
- SwapScreen "ShowDesktop" now supports up to 16 monitors.
- DMT Screen Saver:
- New tool to show the DMT Wallpaper as a screen saver
New in Dual Monitor Tools 2.4.0.0 (Oct 7, 2016)
- New options panel to show monitor configuration.
- Can change primary monitor using command line, magic word or GUI.
- Can change monitor brightness using command line, magic word or GUI.
- Existing instance of DMT can be closed from the command line.
- Cursor fix to remember free movement key.
- Snap fix for snaps that are smaller then secondary on one dimension only.
- SwapScreen fix for 'Next Screen' when taskbar at left or top of monitor.
- Wallpaper changer obeys exif orientation flag.
- Wallpaper changer temporary fix for Unsplash images.
New in Dual Monitor Tools 2.3.0.0 (Feb 3, 2016)
- DMT:
- SwapScreen fix for when swapping top 2 windows
- WallpaperChanger makes sure correct wallpaper mode used if using smooth changes
- Cursor fix for cursor not sticky after Ctrl-Alt-Del
- No longer allows multiple instances of its GUI interface to be run
New in Dual Monitor Tools 2.2.0.0 (Jan 6, 2016)
- Magic words can be run from a batch file with: DMT "DMT:Launcher:Activate magic-word".
- Snap hotkey added to snap active window.
- Snap snap shown same size (pixel basis) as original with options to scale.
- WallpaperChanger LocalDisk can specify different directories for each monitor.
- WallpaperChanger LocalDisk can specify a single image rather than a directory.
New in Dual Monitor Tools 2.1.0.0 (Nov 2, 2015)
- Actions can now be performed from the command line / batch files
- File locations are shown in options for troubleshooting
- Cursor Option to allow mouse buttons to be used to cross cursor boundaries
- Cursor Added hotkey to move cursor to center of primary monitor
- SwapScreen fixed hotkey to move active window to previous monitor
- WallpaperChanger has crossfade option for changing wallpaper
- WallpaperChanger shows details of images used in wallpaper
- WallpaperChanger Flickr added as an image provider
- WallpaperChanger Can choose different local disk folder for monitors in portrait orientation
- WallpaperChanger Unsplash provider updated for changes to their website
New in Dual Monitor Tools 2.0.0.0 (Jun 18, 2015)
- New tool DMT provides the functionality previously provided by SwapScreen, DualLauncher, DualSnap and DualWallpaperChanger. Handling of configuration files has been changed to make it easier to use as a portable app. DisMon has been dropped for the time being.
New in Dual Monitor Tools 1.10 (Jun 18, 2015)
- Swap Screen:
- Better support for touch screens
- Choice of key to allow free cursor movement
- Dual Wallpaper:
- Interpolation mode has been changed for improved image quality
- Added command line support. (Thanks to Christopher Drexler for this.)
- Dual Wallpaper Changer:
- New tool to automatically change the wallpaper
New in Dual Monitor Tools 1.9 (Jun 18, 2015)
- Swap Screen:
- New hotkey to swap the positions of the top two windows.
- New keys for snapping windows to the left/right/up/down.
- Improved handling of configuration saving problems.
- Dual Wallpaper:
- Supports drag and drop. (Thanks to Nithin Philips for this.)
- Supports DPI scaling other than 100%.
- Supports .jpeg (with an e) extension for input images.
- Support added for Windows 8 and 8.1.
New in Dual Monitor Tools 1.8 (Jun 18, 2015)
- Swap Screen:
- Can now move the active window to any of 10 user defined areas on your screens.
- Option to allow sticky/locked cursors to return freely to the primary screen.
- Fixed problem where cancelling the 'Change hotkey' dialog did not always leave the hotkey unchanged.
- Dual Launcher:
- Fixed problem where disabling the hotkeys did not work.
- Dual Wallpaper:
- The background colour can now be changed. (Thanks to Shawn Steele for this.)
- DisMon:
- n option added to not restore screens on exit.
- x option added to change screens and exit.
- Dual Snap:
- Fixed problem where cancelling the 'Change hotkey' dialog did not always leave the hotkey unchanged.
New in Dual Monitor Tools 1.7 (Jun 18, 2015)
- Swap Screen:
- Cursor locking/stickiness problems with some screen layouts with different resolutions now fixed.
- Fix to mouse/keyboard hooking.
- Can now set default cursor mode at startup.
- More keys now available to be used as hotkeys.
- Dual Launcher:
- Fixed problem where the entry window could forget its default position.
- More keys now available to be used as hotkeys.
- Dual Wallpaper:
- No longer crashes if trying to save wallpaper to a file that is being used to compose the wallpaper.
- Dual Snap:
- Now has a hotkey to toggle the display of the snap on the second monitor.
- More keys now available to be used as hotkeys.
New in Dual Monitor Tools 1.6 (Jun 18, 2015)
- Swap Screen:
- Supersized windows now work correctly when taskbar stretches across entire desktop.
- Dual Launcher:
- New tool to launch applications quickly from the keyboard.
- Dual Wallpaper:
- GUI cleaned up so will fit on smaller screens.
New in Dual Monitor Tools 1.5 (Jun 18, 2015)
- Swap Screen:
- Minimise active window' will now restore the window if it is already minimised.
- Portable mode added.
- Dual Wallpaper:
- Unchanged.
- DisMon:
- DisMon now supports both Windows 7 and pre-Windows 7 from a single application.
- Can now change the primary monitor.
- Command line options added to give flexibility over which monitors to disable etc..