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Have a look at Microsoft's PowerToys Display zones. It allows you to split up your monitors into zones which you can then drag windows into to make them snap. I have a few zones configured for 3 windows and 2 windows and swap between them when appropriate.

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Thanks for the suggestion, however I tried them all (screen zoning /tiling apps), and found every solution wanting. I can’t remember what my particular issue was with PoewrToys, but I know I gave it a try.

The solution I have is perfect for me, so that’s not something I’m looking to resolve.

My single biggest issue are apps that consider the middle of the screen an ‘edge’. Still, the benefits outweigh the pain points for me.

Fancyzone tiling is awesome, you can override win + arrow to each zone and save the position, You can even expand the zone if you drop the window in the middle of zone which makes another layer of combination easily. It has pretty extensive fine tuning options.

I'm using it with 3 monitors with different size and dpi/scaling and can't really imagine go back to the days without it.

Have you tried the Monitor Splitting functionality from DisplayFusion (1)? I do not know of any other software capable of this. If anyone does know an alternative for this functionality let us know.

(1) https://www.displayfusion.com/Features/MonitorSplitting/

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