More About What it Does in Detail:

The Binary Fortress website gives the following details:

DisplayFusion will make your dual monitor (or triple monitor or more) experience smooth and painless. Advanced multi-monitor wallpaper support, Flickr integration for image searching and fully customizable window management hotkeys are just a sample of the many things DisplayFusion can do.

• Use a different desktop wallpaper image on each monitor
• Use a desktop wallpaper image that spans all monitors
• Drag maximized windows to other screens
• Auto-snap windows to the edge of your monitor
• Integrated Flickr image search & download
• Manage application windows with fully customizable hotkeys:
  • Move windows to the next monitor
  • Move windows to the next monitor and maximize them
  • Move windows to the centre, top, bottom, left or right side of the monitor
  • Size windows to a configured size or percent of the work area
  • Maximize windows so that they span all monitors

 

• Built-in support for different languages:
  • English
  • Deutsch
  • Español
  • More languages available here

Note – Non Freeware information removed from above quote by ProReviewer

Having installed or added* DisplayFusion and running it the following screens and menus are provided:

*(portable version)

This review will follow the usual format of presenting the majority of information as screenshots backed up by further information where necessary.

(click on any picture to enlarge where necessary)

System Tray icon

When running the following systray icon is presented along with a Tooltip showing the version:

The systray also has a right click menu associated with it:

The menu options are all fairly self explanatory all will become clear from the following details and explanations.

Main Wallpaper Window

This window provides all the functions for changing the background pictures or background color. Adding pictures held on your PC is just a simple Browse window. Choosing Load from Flickr shows the following screen:

In the above example I have done a simple search on “tower bridge london” and after a few moments the first age of search result thumbnails are shown.

Right clicking on a Thumbnail gives you the option to Preview (in your web browser) or to select that picture along with the picture title and size information:

Once you have selected a picture from your computer or Flickr you can choose how to fit it to the screen from the dropdown menu:

If you don’t want to use a picture you can select a plain color background for one or all monitors:

There are useful warning dialogs for operations that make permanent changes such as:

Settings Tabs

The settings window has a number of tabs:

Hotkeys

These can only be changed in the Pro – shareware version but this window gives a quick help/guide on the default settings.

Options

Proxy Settings

Most people won’t need these but it is nice to see the developer has included this option.

Window Snapping

Useful if you want to have screens automatically fit against the screen edges.

Languages

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Help

The help option in the Systray menu takes you to the Binary Fortress website.

This is a part of the help screen showing the links:

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