# How to choose what monitor a Vision App opens on

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-choose-what-monitor-a-vision-app-opens-on/108442>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** vision, ignition81\
**Created:** [July 14, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-choose-what-monitor-a-vision-app-opens-on/108442 "2025-07-14T19:41:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![BigByte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f17d59/32.png) [@BigByte](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/BigByte)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-choose-what-monitor-a-vision-app-opens-on/108442/1 "2025-07-14T19:41:17Z")

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I have multiple monitors with different resolutions. I want to run my Vision app on one of my secondary monitors and not my main display. But it seems it defaults to opening on the main monitor, and I can't drag/drop the runtime window to a different monitor since it's always full-screen. Is there a setting for this somewhere I don't see?

Alternatively, is there a way to fill in extra monitor space with black bars or something? Like, my main display is larger than the resolution of the app, and I don't want it to stretch to fill the screen

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**Author:** ![josborn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@josborn](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/josborn)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-choose-what-monitor-a-vision-app-opens-on/108442/2 "2025-07-14T23:13:48Z")

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Use the vision client launcher to create a shortcut and specify the screen index.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/9/4/943ecb66bebcc1cb6a41313deef8ac95f1db12f0.png)