Companion Display is an app designed to give life to a secondary monitor or old device.
It's really simple! Download the latest release here:
https://github.com/yagdev/Companion-Display/releases
Open CompanionDisplayWinUI.exe. It works on Windows 10 x64 (Build 1809 and later) and Windows 11. If you use Windows 10, I recommend you install the Segoe Fluent Icons font as the app will not display icons correctly on Windows 10 without it. A download can be found here:
https://aka.ms/SegoeFluentIcons
Another thing that does not work on Windows 10 builds is the Mica Backdrop.
To add Widgets simply tap the + button and choose a widget. Currently there are the following Widgets available:
· Pins allow you to keep selected Widgets on top while letting you scroll unpinned ones at the same time:
· Companion Display allows you to open Widgets in Picture-in-Picture mode, allowing you to keep the Widget pinned above other apps too like so:
· To customize Widgets, right click the widget and press Edit and the configuration page for the respective widget will pop up. Making changes in the Media Player widget requires a restart.
· To configure Companion Display, press the settings button on the bottom left corner. Here you can find the available settings separated by category. A restart is recommended after making changes but not mandatory.
· This category allows you to change the color scheme, background, accent color and font used across the interface.
· This category allows you to toggle behaviors such as disabling focus takeover, hiding the Add Widget button, disabling the ability to reorder Widgets (Lock Layout) and launching on startup.
· This category allows you to change your search engine and behavior when opening a new tab.
· Here you can manage integrations with Twitch and OBS.
· Here you can change the Sleep Mode text opacity and color.
· Here you can check the current version, toggle participation in the Beta Program, manage updates and donate.
· By pressing the pop-out button in the Media Player Widget, you can access a pane with the lyrics of the currently playing song with synced lyrics and autoscroll.
· Companion Display has a built in browser based on WebView2. You can access it by pressing the Browser icon.
· The Browser also includes Launchpad, a place to bookmark websites that can be edited by right-clicking an empty space while on a new tab.
· The Spotify tab is the web version of Spotify easily accessible.
· Companion Display offers a customizeable sleep mode, which is a minimalistic interface that displays the time, date and current song info. You can customize the text color and opacity in Settings and it features built-in burn-in prevention for OLED displays.
· Whenever an update is available, it will automatically show up in the home screen. If you wanna force an update, you can do so by going to the settings, About & Update and pressing Update.
· To use the Hardware Monitor, you have to run the app using admin rights, however you won't be able to reorder widgets in admin mode because of a WinUI bug regarding Drag & Drop. This is intended behavior because allowing Drag & Drop operations would cause an app crash. This is a known bug by Microsoft also.
· To report bugs, it's really useful if you can use the source code and see what line causes a crash using Visual Studio.