I am porting a Linux application to windows , there are two executable’s which need to be launched on primary and secondary displays respectively.
In Linux its done through #!/bin/sh script,something like
display_start_dualhead LVDS 800 480 DVI 1024 768 24 export screen_main=$LVDS export screen_secondary=$DVI
how can this be done in Windows , launching exe1 in monitor 1 and exe 2 in monitor 2 ?
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Answer
Process creation on windows is performed through the CreateProcess API which is passed a STARTUPINFO struct. This structure allows initial visibility and positional information to be passed to the launched process, with the intention that the process will use this when creating – and showing – its initial window.
I do not know of a built in command line tool that will populate the positional fields with the co-ordinates of each monitor, although the start command can be instructed to launch the window maximised or minimized.
Nonetheless it should be a trivial exercise to make an application that enumerates the monitors and fills these fields in. That said – having done this you might just find that the applications ignore these fields and position their windows directly.