Side by side virtual desktops on widescreen monitors

[jameslew]

Summary of the new feature/enhancement

I’ve always been a big fan of side by side window snapping; but wish I could pin specific apps/windows to a particular side and have them do all their window management within that rect. Obvious cases; browser on the left, vs code on the right, etc.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

Ideally, just allow me to pin two existing virtual desktops into a single display, side by side. TBD on start bars; could be one in each, or alternately they share a single and have window management/new apps go to the last active desktop.

[DavidGretzschel]

I think that's more like having multiple "virtual monitors" on one monitor, like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuIK-NuN3aY
Wanted to have this myself once upon a time, but found DisplayFusion too complicated. Didn't have the patience to fiddle and figure out all the settings. But it looks very cool for David Zhang.

So already proven to be technically possible, but not exactly trivial stuff.

[Anthropic]

I've also wanted this, I like the idea that when on a larger monitor you can have desktop side-by-side, but when you go to laptop only, you just switch desktops. Makes the switch between laptop only and desktop with monitor substantially easier too if it can remember which desktops to snap on which screen area.

[AntoineArt]

@jameslew isn't this solved with Fancy Zones ? With it you could set up different window areas and you only have to press shift while dragging your window to snap to a zone.

[masotticres]

@jameslew isn't this solved with Fancy Zones ? With it you could set up different window areas and you only have to press shift while dragging your window to snap to a zone.

Fancy Zones is different from multiple virtual monitors. Please see link above #16633 for more use case where fancy zones would not work.

[moving-bits]

Another use-case would be: A program requests to be opened in full-screen. For most programs this looks pretty bad on an ultra-wide screen. It would be nice if we could define a default zone or default size for those programs (and maybe some hotkey if we actually do want to put it in real-full-screen).

[RandomlyOnside]

Another use-case would be: A program requests to be opened in full-screen. For most programs this looks pretty bad on an ultra-wide screen. It would be nice if we could define a default zone or default size for those programs (and maybe some hotkey if we actually do want to put it in real-full-screen).

Exactly what we need. I need to split my 49" UW into 3 separate monitors so I can tell zoom to use one. Or play a game "full screen" with 2 screens on each side.

[zenoran]

I love the idea of fancyzones but I'm still struggling to find similar kind of functionality for productivity. Specifically, I'm trying to split my screen for Citrix and only use one peice of the screen and span it across another physical monitor. To get a similar height across both displays, and use the top section for something else (zoom).

I realize this probably is out of scope for a feature on powertoys... but I'm just wondering if anyone else has actually found a solution for this with other software? DisplayFusion doesn't work when spanning one of the sections as full screen. :(

[slurrr]

how has this not been figured out yet?