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Dell™ Display Manager User's Guide

Overview
Using the Quick Settings Dialog
Setting Basic Display Functions
Assigning Preset Modes to Applications
Applying Energy Conservation Features
Organizing windows with Easy Arrange
Rotating Screen Content

Overview

Dell Display Manager is a Windows application used to manage a monitor or a group of monitors. It allows manual adjustment of the displayed image, assignment of automatic

settings, energy management, window organization, image rotation and other features on select Dell models. Once installed, Dell Display Manager will run each time the system

starts and will place its icon in the notification tray. Information about monitors connected to the system is always available when hovering over the notification tray icon.

Using the Quick Settings Dialog

Clicking Dell Display Manager's notification tray icon opens the Quick Settings dialog box. When more than one supported Dell model is connected to the system, a specific

target monitor can be selected using the menu provided. The Quick Settings dialog box allows convenient adjustment of the monitor's Brightness and Contrast levels, Preset

Modes can be manually selected or set to Auto Mode, and the screen resolution can be changed.

Summary of Contents for Display Manager

Page 1: ...t Dell models Once installed Dell Display Manager will run each time the system starts and will place its icon in the notification tray Information about monitors connected to the system is always available when hovering over the notification tray icon Using the Quick Settings Dialog Clicking Dell Display Manager s notification tray icon opens the Quick Settings dialog box When more than one suppo...

Page 2: ...Preset Mode for the selected monitor can be manually applied using the menu on the Basic tab Alternatively Auto Mode can be enabled Auto Mode causes your preferred Preset Mode to be applied automatically when specific applications are active An onscreen message momentarily displays the current Preset Mode whenever it changes The selected monitor s Brightness and Contrast can also be directly adjus...

Page 3: ...r applications To add a new application to the assignment list simply drag the application from the desktop Windows Start Menu or elsewhere and drop it onto the current list NOTE Preset Mode assignments targeting batch files scripts and loaders as well as non executable files such as zip archives or packed files are not supported and will be ineffective In addition an option can be enabled that wi...

Page 4: ...l models an Options tab will be available to provide PowerNap energy conservation options When the screensaver activates the monitor s Brightness can automatically be set to minimum level or the monitor can be put to sleep in order to save additional power ...

Page 5: ... within a window layout To get started with Easy Arrange choose a target monitor and select one of the predefined layouts The regions for that layout will be displayed momentarily on the monitor Next drag an open window across the monitor While the window is being dragged the current window layout will be displayed and an active region will be highlighted as the window passes over it At any time d...

Page 6: ...desktop and then click the Save link in Easy Arrange The size and position of the windows is saved as a custom layout and the custom layout icon is created NOTE The application that owns each window is not saved in the custom layout Only the size and position of the windows is saved ...

Page 7: ...layout icon To save a new custom layout first postion and size up to 10 windows on the desktop and then click the Save link in Easy Arrange To delete the currently saved custom layout close all windows on the desktop and then click the Save link in Easy Arrange ...

Page 8: ...creen Content Some Dell models provide Rotation features On these monitors the Menu Rotation option under Other Settings in the OSD menu automatically triggers a corresponding change in Windows screen orientation ...

Page 9: ...A Rotate image button on the Options tab and in the Quick Settings dialog may also be available on select models to manually switch between landscape and portait screen orientations ...

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