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I have just got my 4 monitors set up for my work pc. 2 using onboard graphics, and 2 using an Asus EN210 PCIe card.

I am trying to set them up in a specific layout, but I cannot seem to get it working, and I am not sure if it is possible or not.

key: - = Monitor

What works:

- - - -

and

- -
- -

What I am trying to achieve

  -
- - -

Is this possible?

When I try to apply this layout, it pauses/hangs for a couple seconds and then reverts to the 4 in a row layout (- - - -)

OS: Windows 10 Pro 64 bit

I tried a 3rd party app called 'Actual Multiple Monitors' which save the layout upon applying the changes(the layout is correct in the GUI of the program), however the desktop still acts as if it has 4 monitors in a single row.

Cadoiz
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Barry Thomas
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Take a look at DisplayFusion. I'm not sure if it supports the kind of

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4-way monitor layout you're looking for, but it appears pretty likely.

Cadoiz
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Ed Tittel
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Not sure if you already solved this, but maybe LittleBigMouse can help.

It allowed me to solve some issues with the 'gaps' between the screens (allow corner crossing), but it allows for a much finer adjustment of screen positions too.

My setup in LBM: LBM in 4 monitor action

My setup IRL: enter image description here

Glorfindel
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M.D. Klapwijk
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I have pretty close to that setup--top row is 1 monitor, second row is three monitors, but the top one is over two of the lower ones. Moving it to be over the middle and right worked fine.

I'm running DisplayFusion but only for some tweaks that stock Windows doesn't do.

Two things I have noticed, though:

My general experience of trying to arrange multiple monitors is that it's less troublesome when you move them one at a time. Put one, apply changes, then put the next.

Also, in the test I just ran I noticed Windows slightly messing with the line of monitors in the second row even though I didn't touch them. While what it did would simply have annoyed me I could see a potential for actual trouble.

Note that under Windows 7 it was possible to take the mouse off the screen (it's confined to a bounding box that includes all your monitors) it is not under 10--moving diagonally though the empty space is not permitted. Perhaps your attempt to lay it out is failing because the mouse ends up in empty space?

Update: My previous experiments revealed a glitch in how Windows 10 arranges monitors that might be relevant to your problem. I thought I put everything back to normal, but then my mouse jammed against the edge of my middle screen, it wouldn't go onto the left screen. Turns out the left monitor ended up slightly disconnected from the middle monitor.

Loren Pechtel
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