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I would also pay attention to reviews and keep an eye out for problems like DisplayPort deep sleep. I have two monitors, one goes into DP deep sleep with no way to disable and the other doesn't. The monitor that doesn't will always wake first and all windows will end up moved onto that monitor since the DP deep sleep monitor is technically "off" for a few seconds. As you can imagine reorganizing all your windows every time you come out of sleep is a bit of a PITA. Fortunately this is one area where Windows 11 helps as they added some feature to better help laptops reconnect to external displays. It's still a problem on other OSs IME though.

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Pretty much every high end monitor has that issue. It’s a conflict between idle power savings regulations and the hardware needed for 4K 120hz.

I just disable “turn display off after x minutes” in windows, set a black screensaver, and leave the monitor and PC fully powered 24 hours a day. This does waste power, but unless reasonable sleep modes that only power off the panel become available that’s what you gotta do.

This behavior is the single biggest drawback DisplayPort has over DVI.

Have you tried Powertoys FancyZones? I'd be curious to hear if it helps to persist window positions or at least reset them quickly if they end up in the wrong place.

No, I hadn't heard of it. Windows 11 also sort of works around it you just have to wait a few seconds for it to rejigger the windows so I no longer need a workaround. I did use it with tiling window manager (stumpWM) on Linux but that just resulted in an even worse problem where I couldn't even use the 2nd monitor after returning from sleep.

I made a post yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30223880) about my own twm use in Windows 11; I think it could help with the problem you are describing of application window reorganization.

Someone told here earlier it’s now built into w11.

I use display fusions window position profile feature for that, it's bound to a hotkey so I can hit it and all my windows are instantly where I want them.

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