Software update: DisplayFusion 3.1.8

Binary Fortress Software released a new version of DisplayFusion on Sunday. With the help of this program it is possible to manage a multimonitor setup. For example, a separate wallpaper can be set per screen and programs can be opened on a screen determined by the user. Photos can also be flickr and VladStudio be placed or retrieved from those sites and used directly as wallpaper on the desktop. More information about DisplayFusion can be found at this page are being found. The changelog of this release shows the following changes and improvements:

Changed:

• Added a “Don’t snap windows while ‘Shift’ is pressed” option
• Added a “Pause wallpaper changes while on battery power” option
• Added a new HotKey & TitleBar Button: “Toggle Window Always on Top”
• Added a new HotKey & TitleBar Button: “Move window to monitor #X”
• Added a new HotKey & TitleBar Button: “Move all windows to monitor #X”
• Added a “Check for Beta Updates” option in the Settings window, on the Options tab
• Added an “Automatically select the best image” option in the “Edit TitleBar Button” window
• Added an “Image” column to the TitleBar Button tab in the Settings window to show the selected button image’s filename
• Added a new Advanced Setting called “TitleBar Button Vertical Offset” for forcing the TitleBar Buttons position up/down
• Vladstudio random image changer now chooses from all the images, not just the newest 100 images
• Each HotKey in the HotKeys list in the Settings window now has a tooltip describing it’s actions
• Improved taskbar button dragging
• Wallpaper and Settings windows now open on the monitor the mouse cursor is currently on (instead of always opening on the primary monitor)
• Wallpaper window now automatically re-sizes itself to fit on smaller resolution monitors (like netbooks)
• Wallpaper window now has a “Copy settings from Monitor #x” in each monitor’s context menu
• Wallpaper window now only prompts to apply settings when you have changed something
• Wallpaper images can now be scaled by a certain percent to enlarge or shrink the image
• Added new options for middle-clicking taskbar buttons on the DisplayFusion taskbars
• Added 2 new Compatibility settings for disabling maximized window dragging and middle-click window moving
• Added an “Edit” button to the TitleBar Buttons tab in the Settings window for editing existing buttons

Fixed:

• Taskbar compatibility improvements: Stardock DeskScapes, Stardock WindowBlinds, Winamp, Microsoft Office 2007/2010
• TitleBar Button compatibility improvements: Stardock DeskScapes, Stardock WindowBlinds, Trillian Astra, LogMeIn Hamachi, Google Chrome, Opera 10.50
• TitleBar Buttons no longer disappear when partially hidden by another window
• TitleBar Button glow effect is now much improved, no longer flickers (Windows 7, Vista)
• Taskbar buttons no longer show double ampersands
• Taskbar is correctly adjusted when another docked application is closed (no more gaps along the monitor edge)
• Taskbar performance improvements (reduced update latency, less blocks)
• Taskbar buttons for windows with a title text length of 0 are now displayed correctly
• Improved Windows version detection (now detects Windows Server 2008 R2 correctly)
• Taskbar color is now almost perfect when Windows Aero translucency is disabled
• Sometimes TitleBar Button image would shift with custom theme
• When a taskbar is set to auto-hide, the taskbar is now shown when a taskbar button starts flashing
• A window is no longer restricted to the workspace size when specifying a value for width or height in a custom HotKey
• Taskbars are correctly refreshed when a program disables desktop composition for compatibility
• Log file has been moved into the temp folder and the old log is deleted