How to preserve one monitor layout after disconnecting secondary monitors?

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Hi. I have automatic layout save enabled, I work with three monitors and have this layout:

When I disconnect the external monitos, the portals I have on them all move to my main monitor, creating a little mess:

I can restore my saved layout for this only monitor, where the other portals don't exist, but then when I reconnect the external monitor, they don't have these portals and  I have to then restore that layout; this is something I do almost daily, is there some way that I could achieve it automatically without having to restore layout manually each time I disconnect/connect external monitors? Thanks!

Windows 11 24H2. Fences 5.86 R8.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Have you tried the troubleshooting steps mentioned in the first post of this thread: https://forums.stardock.com/528229? If you have not yet, please try it and see if it help.

Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Hi sanmarcha, you'll want to use this option in the Layout panel. It will maintain different layouts when the monitors are plugged vs unplugged.

I see you note "where the other portals don't exist" – so you cannot have a layout where individual groups don't exist in a different monitor config, but you can shrink them or dock them to the edge. When you restore to 3 monitors, that layout will be restored, and likewise when you return to 1 monitor, that layout will be restored. I hope this helps

 

 

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Thanks! I have that option enabled, and I had in fact tried doing that, but after reconnecting all the monitors, the portals remain only in the one where I made the last modifications and don't return to their original monitor.