Settings & startup

Open Settings with the gear icon at the right of the header. The panel has three sections: Startup, Hotkeys, and Turn Off Displays.

Startup

Setting	Default	Effect
Start with Windows	Off	Launch WinDisplayManager when you sign in.
Start minimized	Off	Only shown while Start with Windows is on. At sign-in the app starts in the system tray without opening its window.

Both toggles are saved as soon as you change them; you don’t need to click Save. They are stored per user; no administrator rights are needed.

Behind the scenes the app writes one value to the registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
  WindowsDisplayManager = "C:\path\to\windisplaymanager_rs.exe" [--minimized]

• --minimized is added only when Start minimized is on. Launching the app yourself always opens the window.
• Turning Start with Windows off removes the value. Your Start minimized choice is remembered for next time.
• On every launch the value is rewritten to match your saved settings and the executable’s current location, so moving the .exe is picked up the next time you start it manually.
• If the registry update succeeds but saving the configuration fails, the previous registration is restored.

Hotkeys

Enable global hotkeys (default: on) registers or unregisters every hotkey with Windows. When off, your bindings are kept but pressing them does nothing, and every hotkey card shows Inactive. This toggle is also saved immediately. See the Hotkeys guide.

Turn Off Displays

Power-off method decides what a hotkey Turn Off action does. The default is None. Unlike the toggles above, this choice is saved when you click Save in the header.

Method	Effect
None	Turn Off actions do nothing.
Soft (Windows monitor sleep)	Asks Windows to put the displays to sleep. This affects all displays, not just the selected ones; they wake on mouse or keyboard input.
DDC/CI power off	Sends a DDC/CI power-off command to each selected monitor. Many monitors then need their power button (or a DDC/CI Power Mode → On command, if still supported) to wake.
Both	Does both of the above.

System tray

Closing the window (the close button or Alt+F4) hides WinDisplayManager to the notification area; it keeps running so hotkeys keep working. Double-click the tray icon to open the window again, or right-click it for the menu:

Menu item	What it does
Show Window	Opens or focuses the main window.
Load Profile	Submenu with every saved profile; pick one to apply it. Disabled when no profiles exist.
Save Current Layout…	Opens the Profiles page so you can name and save the current layout.
Turn Off Monitors	Puts all displays to sleep through Windows (the Soft method). It always uses Windows sleep, regardless of the Power-off method setting.
Exit	Quits the app and unregisters all hotkeys.

If the tray icon cannot be created, closing the window exits the app instead.