Ability to easily create and switch display layout protection presets

[waydabber]

MacOS stores the last saved layout for a given combination of active displays. This is great but sometimes it is annoying. Would not it be great to be able to save a specific display layout (display location, main/extended status for displays and mirroring) configuration and restore it as needed?

The function should be intelligent - if one or more of the displays are missing or not connected, the function still could restore the settings and adapt to the missing displays.

[waydabber]

Also, layouts could be set as preferred - so if a new display is connected or there is some change or during app startup BetterDummy would restore the preferred configuration - connecting a new display would not totally mess up the desktop layout anymore.

[mbennoer]

+1 for this, would be great to have this included in BetterDummy. My displays change the window layout nearly every time the external one sleeps, I currently cope with that by using the window manager Moom, which can save individual layouts and have them restored with a keyboard shortcut.

[waydabber]

This is definitely a priority on the todo list. My plan is to have the ability save these data as a profile to be recalled:

• Enabled dummies
• Mirroring configuration
• Resolutions/refresh rate
• HDR status
• Location of displays in the display configuration
• Main display status
• Orientation of the display

I'd like to make the various configurations available in a menu for quick access and also hotkey assignable. I'd also like to give the ability to self-recover if one or more displays are unavailable. Also there would be a hotkey to update the savedata for a configuration.