Will a switch of the kvm disconnect the monitor from the pc

[Level1_Amber]

@LouisXIV

When I switch from the work pc to game pc, will the monitor disconnect from the work pc? and thus move all windows on the secondary screen?

This sounds like you’re wanting monitor emulation. What operating systems do you have your work and game PC? In Windows 11 this fix is as simple as toggling on the setting in “Display”

@Level1_Amber

Remember Window Locations Fix

Via Twitter:
My biggest concern about the KVM switch is what happens to the PC that gets it’s monitors disconnected. Windows is stupid, and will very unreliably restore my desktop and window positions properly on disconnect/reconnect…

@wendell thanks again for following up. Now that the KVM is “working” there’s one thing driving me NUTS with frustration. I have two computers connected to the KVM, both running Windows 10. Computer 1 has one monitor, run through the KVM. Computer 2 has two monitors, one connected directly via DisplayPort, and then also shares the same monitor wit…

Solution

• Windows 10

One of the problems people face is the KVM switches not remembering where you windows were. Sometimes it minimizes everything, or it puts them in weird spots. This Github link should fix those problems.

GitHub - kangyu-california/PersistentWindows: fork of http://www.ninjacrab.com/persistent-windows/ with windows 10 update

• Windows 11

Settings → System → Display (This problem is fixed with the toggle)