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drm

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The Dynamic Resolution Manager, or DRM for short, is simple Windows +program that resides in your tray. When right-clicked, it opens a menu, +where you can choose a new resolution:

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(Don’t +worry about the font in the screenshot – it follows your system font. +It’s just that I personally happen to use Verdana as my system font.) +

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The “dynamic” part – and the main selling point +– is that the program retains the window layout across +resolutions. For example, let’s say you have two windows side +by side, together covering the entirety of the screen. When you switch +to a lower resolution using drm, the windows will automatically be +repositioned and resized to cover the exact same area; the full-screen +side-by-side layout will be retained regardless of resolution. In other +words, drm retains the centimeter-measured positions and +sizes of all windows, rather than the pixel-measured.

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The resizing and repositioning is instantaneous +and invisible, and it applies to all windows, even those that are +currently minimized. Below is an example, where the window layout is +retained when switching from 800×600 to 640×480.
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+ +Two windows side by side in 800×600.The same two
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Configuration

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drm is configured via a set of registry keys located in +HKCU\Software\JohnAJ\DRM. They will be created automatically when +the program is launched for the first time.
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Key
+ 		Description
+ 		Example
+
Resolutions
+ 		Set of custom resolutions. Since 1.4, refresh +rates can optionally be specified.*
+ 		1600x1200 75Hz|1024x768
+
Ignore
+ 		Set of programs whose window position and size +should be ignored (1.2).**
+ 		explorer.exe|2kclient.exe
+
IgnoreSize
+ 		Set of programs whose window size should be +ignored, but window position retained (1.2).
+ 		mpc-hc.exe|winamp.exe
+
+ +

* Resolutions are specified using the following notation: width +"x" height [" " refresh rate "Hz"], with the section enclosed in +brackets being optional. Each resolution is then separated by a pipe (|) +character. Since 1.4.1, two pipe characters in a row (||) are +rendered as a separator in the menu.
+** These windows will still be repositioned and resized, but always to +their original pixel-measured position and size. (As such, it will +still behave differently from Windows’ normal operation, which is to +shrink windows that don’t fit on screen.)

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To quickly open the configuration in Registry Editor, click the Configure… +menu option. Note that you must restart drm in order for any +configuration changes to be applied. To easily restart drm, hold Shift +while opening the menu, which replaces the Exit option with a Restart +option.
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Advanced configuration

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If you want to customize the handling of specific windows further, +use the non-compiled version of drm, drm.ahk, which you can easily modify yourself. Note that this +requires AutoHotKey to be +installed on your system.
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Since version 1.3.2, drm.ahk includes a designated place +(around line 196, as of 1.4.2) where you can write your own custom +rules. The included example, shown below, would instruct drm to ignore +the size, but retain the position, of any window of the mpc-hc.exe +process with a client width of 294 pixels:
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; Custom rules

; Example:
; if (exe = "mpc-hc.exe" and cw = 294)
;   DoIgnoreSize := true
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Code in this section of the program is run once for every window, +whenever drm initiates a resolution change. You can easily control how +drm should handle a specific window by setting one of the variables DoIgnore +and DoIgnoreSize to true. This is equivalent to adding the +program to the Ignore or IgnoreSize registry key.

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This approach, while more powerful than the registry-based +configuration, requires some knowledge of AutoHotKey, some +understanding of drm’s source code (which, however, is relatively +simple) and, finally, a slightly more manual update process, should a +new version of drm be released.
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Other information
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If you have any other issues or feature requests, feel free to contact me or to modify the source +code yourself. If you add a feature or fix a bug yourself, please share +it!
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