- Goal
- Every monitor carries the grid you want it to — shared across displays, or tuned per display.
How multi-monitor works
When you press the resize shortcut, the overlay opens on the display that holds the focused window. That’s the only window MaxTo touches — your other monitors are unaffected. Press Tab (or PageDown / PageUp) to switch the overlay to the next monitor without closing it.
Each display has its own grid and its own saved presets. You can tune every monitor independently, or share configuration across all of them.
Share modes
Open Settings → Displays and look for Allow displays to share settings. There are three options:
- Shared by all. One configuration applies to every monitor. Pick this if you want consistent behaviour everywhere and don’t care which physical screen you’re on.
- Shared by resolution. Monitors with the same width × height share a configuration. Useful for docking-station setups where you swap between identical externals — plug in a different but identically-sized monitor and it picks up the same grid automatically.
- Separate. Each physical monitor gets its own configuration, identified by its serial number. Useful for permanent multi-monitor setups with mixed hardware: a small portrait sidekick gets a tall grid; the main 4K gets a wider one.
If you’re not sure which to pick, Shared by resolution (the default) covers most cases.
Presets that follow you
If you press a preset key on a display that doesn’t have it but another display does, MaxTo switches the overlay to that other display and applies the preset there. Use this to make a key that sends a window to another monitor: save the preset on the target monitor, with a key the other monitors don’t use.
Monitors that share settings also share presets, so on them the key always resolves on the current monitor. With the default Shared by resolution, that includes two identical monitors. Save a preset for one-press snapping walks through the setup.