you have to move the screen element in edit mode to the correct desktop position in the aquasuite.
Post screnshots from your workflow.

click the edge of the menu panel and it folds (along where the vertical aquacomputer logo is)

Zitat von »JohnHind«

. I need to find a program which will give me the virtual co-ordinates of my physical screens. However, my understanding is that any screen to the left of the main screen has negative virtual coordinates and the settings for items will not accept negative values for X or Y?

When you edit a aquasuite desktop page, you see a screenshot from all your screens. you have to move your elements to the correct screen position, scroll down or left.
Make a few screenshots from your aquasuite and your desktop. Windows have some problem when you use different dpi scales.

Open the Aquasuite Window and resize it so it covers all the screen, even all the way down to your vertical screen. Part of it will be in an inaccessible area. Not sure if Windows will allow you to size the Window into an inaccessible area, but you can try.

Also, I can reproduce that dragging an item further down as the actual available screen hight would allow, are can be fidgety. The dragged item keeps jumping up a bit, but it does extend the vertical space everytime, even though not really consistently.

But maybe you can simply export the display page into a .page file and open this with an editor. It's basically a XML file. You can edit the coordinates and everything else in there manually. That can help a lot sometimes.

out of curiosity, what prevents you from setting screen 3 above screen 1 on your layout? If negative values are a problem, it seems like the obvious solution

What would be nice is if Aquasuite had a more intuitive (& Graphical) way of letting you Select which desktop and where on that desktop the variou selements are displayed.

EG DisplayX Monitors in a task bar/breadcrumb view a la Display Properties but smaller)

Select Monitor to work with

Edit layout in Main Window below Task Bar

Select 2nd Monitor

Edit Layout for Monitor 2

rinse and repeat as often as necessary

The following may be a little off subject but I think may be relevant to OPs efforts and this discussion.

TLDR - I think it would be very helpful to have the ability to select multiple items (or just all items) in an overview page and then be able to enter a Global [x.y] pixel offset. For example, if I move the display that the overview page drives in the Windows raster for whatever reason, every item in the overview page has to have it's coordinates updated one by one. It would be much easier to be able to relocate the entire overview page with a single Global [x,y] Offset command.

I went through something very similar to what OP is doing now. I have 2 screens that are both 1920x 1080. They sit side by side and the left one is the Main screen in Windows. I don't have anything to the left of it so I did not run into negative coordinate issues. I added a small stat display screen that is 1024x600. In the Windows raster, this screen's upper left pixel is at [3841,1] and it's lower right hand pixel is at [4865,600]. I built an overview page for this stat display and set everything up based on this location in the Windows raster. So far so good. While I was setting up the stat display, I moved it around in the Windows raster several times because I kept having programs (including Aquasuite) open on the stat screen display instead of the Windows main display or the other large display next to the main display. HWINFO and Explorer windows would open on the stat display sometimes too. Most of the time these programs would open on the same screen as they were running on previously but they were "jumping" to the stat screen often enough to be annoying. I don't know if this is a program bug or a Windows issue or a graphics driver issue. I thought that maybe if I relocated the stat display in the Window raster so it was to the far right, program windows would stop jumping to it. Every time I moved the stat display in the Windows raster, I had to then edit the coordinates of every item in the overview page, one by one which was a PITA.

Then I bought another stat display that is 1920x480. This one ended up in portrait orientation sitting to the right of the 1024x600 stat display in the Windows raster. It's upper left pixel is at [4865,1] and its lower right hand pixel is at [5345,1920]. When I added the second stat display (1920x480) I originally had it in landscape orientation. I built an overview page for it based on this, and I experimented with where to put it in the Windows raster. Later I decided to mount it vertically so I had to re-do the overview page for portrait orientation. Here is a LINK to where all my displays are currently located in the Windows raster and a LINK to what it looks like physically. My overview page for these displays includes all items for both displays because you can only send one overview page at a time to a display, which in my case is actually 2 displays. Since I put the stat displays where they are now I have not had programs or Windows stuff jumping to them other than when I am updating graphics drivers. Things usually go back to where they should be after a reboot.

Eventually I will move this rig into the "every day work computer" position in my office. It will be connected to 5 existing displays plus the 2 stat displays. I will have to decide where to put the 2 stat displays in the Windows raster along with the other 5 regular displays. After I make that decision, I will have to update the coordinates of every item that appears on the 2 stat displays. This is why I suggested to the AQS devs that they could add a "global offset" to the Settings menu of multiple devices selected at once (or maybe just all devices in the overview page). You would enter a global x and y coordinate and every selected item would move that many pixels from where it is. This would make it very easy to update overview pages when the display they drive gets rearranged in the Windows raster for whatever reason. I think it would be easy to implement and really hope they add this ability. I think what JohnHind and WinstonWoof are suggesting are similar but more advanced than a relatively simple Global Offset. The larger point in that manipulating the coordinates of items in overview pages could be improved. They do have grid and snap, and you can drag and drop, but if you want things set up precisely, you will end up typing in coordinates. My overview page for these 2 stat screens has over 50 items and having to enter coordinates item by item to move the page in the Windows raster is very tedious and time consuming. A Global [x,y] Offset command would make this very easy to do

You have to activate the Desktop Mode AND the edit mode.
Than you have a screenshot from all your Displays and you can move the items to the correct location.

This looks like an issue with different display scalings. We cant solve that. you have to try and find out the correct location for your display and the position.
i would try here:



Otherwise you have to change your layout from your Monitor configurations.

Zitat von »WinstonWoof«

What would be nice is if Aquasuite had a more intuitive (& Graphical) way of letting you Select which desktop and where on that desktop the variou selements are displayed.

EG DisplayX Monitors in a task bar/breadcrumb view a la Display Properties but smaller)

Select Monitor to work with

Edit layout in Main Window below Task Bar

Select 2nd Monitor

Edit Layout for Monitor 2

rinse and repeat as often as necessary

This is the sort of thing I mean.

So rther than having to worry about negative & positive offsets etc the number of monitors is displayed across the top and the slected one is highlighted.

Everything is then relative to that monitor only



why doesnt my image show up directly above this sentence, its wrapped in the [ I M G ] tags as per clicking the insert picture option??

http://sharetheexperience.co.uk/upload/Aquasuite_Mockup.png

keep it simple

Besides, on my end at least, i've seen that the overlay uses more CPU and GPU time than the main window.