FancyZones - Allow SOME zones to span across SOME monitors

[hleerobinson]

FancyZones - Allow Some zones to span across some monitors

I have 5 monitors attached to my computer. Two of them are portrait mode and I would like to create a layout that spans just those two monitors and be able to treat them as one display. I thought "Allow zones to span across monitors" would do that but it only allows one layout and it is forced across all of my monitors. It would be great if I could create one layout for monitor #1 and another layout for the combined monitors #2 and #3.

When two monitors out of several are combined as one virtual monitor

this would be used to allow me to easily move a window to my combined portrait mode monitors and maximize so that I have, effectively, a monitor that has twice the area of either of them alone. The two monitors are side-by-side to allow me to display large diagrams.

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[crutkas]

You can do this and create a custom layout across it with that setting. FZ editor with that setting and DPI correctly set should let you do it. Would need to see more to debug /needinfo

[hleerobinson]

The only options I see for multiple monitors is to allow zones to span across ALL monitors. This forces all 5 monitors to be of the same DPI scaling. Since the DPI scaling on my monitor varies because of their size, this option does not work for me. It would be nice if I could specify the two portrait mode monitors and just span those two for the layout.

[Caleb-D]

This is interesting. That's the same exact monitor setup I had, except I had the landscape monitor on the right.

I agree FancyZones is totally broken for this configuration. So much so that I went and scrounged another monitor so I could have three portrait of the same dpi/resolution. Works great then.

But, the root issue should be fixed. See this issue for more details:
#24882