Display Fusion Showcase Featuring SLICK!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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1,442 words · ~7 min read
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or liquid cooling check the link in the video description to learn more by
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popular demand Welcome to our video on display Fusion if you're wondering how
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to acquire display Fusion I would highly recommend getting it through Steam where
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it is $29.99 although it goes on sale quite often I believe I got mine at
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around $7.99 and that was a pretty good deal that's why I don't necessarily remember
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it's not too big deal to me um the main
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reason why I like display Fusion is you can have different independent
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backgrounds on each monitor I personally run three different screens usually so
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it's nice to be able to have independent backgrounds because I just find it more
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interesting you can also stretch backgrounds or you can have the same background on each one it doesn't really
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matter it's quite flexible in that way uh my other favorite thing is that you
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can have taskbars on every monitors so you have your Windows taskbar and then
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you have on all your other monitors you can have display Fusion taskbars where
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you can pin whatever you want and they still have Arrow Peak functionality
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another great thing about these is if you're on your display Fusion taskbar
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and you rightclick on a window you have additional functionality so you can
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click on span across all monitors or you can click on move monitor to uh move
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window to next monitor so you can just flip things around as you go and it
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makes everything a much more enjoyable much faster experience another thing you
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can do can do is have multiple screen savers on each one of
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your screens which I'm really not into but if you want to do that you can now
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if you're into tinkering with software and want to get a little bit more functionality out of it you can go to
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the functions tab inside of the display Fusion settings window and set any key
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combination to a huge arrangement of different functions that you can do my
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favorite one is move window to center of monitor so that's control Windows key q
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and it just Bops whatever window you're currently on into the middle of your monitor there's a huge amount of other
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ones and you can set those to clickable buttons in the top left hand corner of
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the window so right here I can just have that which is move window to next
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display so you saw that through over to the TV very very quickly and if I double
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middle if I middle click the title bar it will also move it to next monitor
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that is default functionality though and not a key combination so it's just nice
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little extra things that are built into it so here's something I really didn't
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find that useful but you might if you grab the title bar of a window and move
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it to the next one it you can if it's maximized it will REM maximize on the
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other side but the reason why I don't find it all that crazy useful is I can
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do that anyways and just put it on the top of the Monitor and then it maximizes
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anyway so it's kind of already built in but it might be a little bit faster for you this way if you're very nitpicky
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about over organizing your Windows you can enable a tool tip that will show you
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the size and location of your Windows at all points in time while you drag them
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around which is very nice another thing you can do is specify default window
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locations for when your computer starts up so something I have done is I set
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Skype I have two Skypes at all points in time so I set up Skype so that when I
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first turn my computer on on my left monitor not my main monitor I have one
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Skype on one side and my other Skype on the other side so I can constantly
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monitor all my chats another tool to help you Ma manage your Windows location
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is snapping so you can set in the snapping option inside of the display
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Fusion settings window you can set snapping distance I have it set at 10
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which seems very natural for me and then if you move Windows around they'll snap
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against each other which is kind of nice because it helps you organize things I
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actually use this all the time not everything will work with snapping
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properly like my Razer comm's window which is a very custom UI stylized
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window will not snap properly to other Windows but default uh Windows Windows
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and steam will all kind of snap to each other which is quite nice this isn't
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necessarily useful to me but if you're a laptop power user that has a dock at say
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work you can have uh monitor profiles
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and icon profiles so when you plug in a new monitor sometimes the resolution
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messed up or it's on or it thinks it's on the wrong side and your icons go all
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over the place you can have two individual profiles they can link into
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each other so if you set a uh monitor profile it can automatically grab your
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icon profile so you go to work click on the work profile and everything
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automatically configures itself exactly how you want it to be so you're playing
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a game and your icons are all messed out because of some weird resolution that
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you had to play inside the game if all your icons are messed up just click on
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your profile everything will be fine you might notice a lot of these features are
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mainly good for people that are using Windows display Fusion also has features
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for people using Windows 8 one of them is a bypass to go right to your desktop
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although they suggest using classic start which also has that functionality
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so that's a little bit redundant at that point but the coolest thing in their
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windows8 features that I have noticed is they have a mini modern UI window so if
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you do end up going if you in classic start you can enable so you can still
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get to Modern UI if you do want that but don't want it to completely take over
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your screen you can have a mini little modern UI at almost any size that you
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want it's very customizable and then you can use it there still looks kind of
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nice but personally I wouldn't use that at all I would just completely byass modern UI because I don't like it um the
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power user menu in Windows 8 kind of opens in one specific spot you can
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teleport it to your mouse cursor by pressing Windows X and then that's about
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it for Windows 8 users but it's still quite nice for many things display
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Fusion integrates really really well with Windows if you right click on your desktop you can access desktop wallpaper
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monitor configuration or just general settings things but if you're a power
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user like I'm assuming many of you are you can dive deeper into all the
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different menus and get a lot more out of this program I've covered many things
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throughout this video but there's still tons that I haven't been able to go
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through and if you're going to sit down and spend the time to set up everything
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exactly how you want it it'll take some time but it'll save you time in the long
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run if you're worried about backing up all your stuff they have that functionality you can back up your
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settings to a regge file and then restore them if you ever reformat your
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computer or move to a different desktop with with a similar setup thank you for
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watching our display Fusion n we're just going to roll with
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this cuz that was good otherwise than you for watching our
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display Fusion video and I'm going to leave before lus shoots me no no you you
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got it right so now I don't have to like y bust it back in the monitor yeah
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seriously okay
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bye
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