What’s new in DeskScene

A rebuild from the ground up: profiles become scenes, and DeskScene learns to restore your windows by itself after docking and undocking.

New

• Auto-snapshots and auto-restore. A snapshot of your windows every few minutes, after moving windows, before sleep and lock. After docking or undocking DeskScene restores the last snapshot of that monitor setup – or loads the scene you linked to it.
• Command line and desktop shortcuts. deskscene --load "Deep Work", --restore-last, --snapshot, --list, with exit codes for scripts, Stream Deck and the Task Scheduler. One click puts a shortcut for a scene on the desktop.
• Launch arguments and admin start per app. Open a folder, a file or a URL; set a working directory; run an app as administrator. Windows of administrator apps are detected and reported, with “Restart DeskScene as administrator and load”.
• Focus mode. Minimize every window that is not part of the scene, with Undo.
• Monitor setups recognized by their EDID ids, so two desks with the same resolutions stay apart.
• Scene editor with a map of your monitors: drag and resize windows, snapping to edges, halves and thirds.
• Tray flyout with all scenes, auto-restore and focus mode; history of everything DeskScene did on its own.
• Store apps (packaged apps) are captured and started too.

Changed

• Profiles are now called scenes. Your version 1 profiles, hotkeys and monitor profiles are imported on the first start; the old files are left untouched.
• Hotkeys are free per scene (any combination, conflicts are shown), not only modifier + 1–9.
• DeskScene waits up to 20 seconds for apps it starts (version 1: 2.5 seconds) and starts them in parallel.
• New dark design, English and German switchable live.
• A paid app with a 15-day free trial through the Microsoft Store: €9.99 once, all 2.x updates included.

The first version in the Microsoft Store: window profiles with a click, a hotkey (modifier + 1–9) or automatically per monitor profile, auto-launch of missing apps, websites as browser tabs, tray menu, dark and light theme.