How Does Jarvis Decide Which Monitor To Appear On?

Jarvis (getjarvis.eu) appears on whichever monitor is active when you press the hotkey, Cmd+/ on macOS or Ctrl+/ on Windows and Linux. "Active" follows your current focus, so the floating bar shows up on the screen you are already working on rather than defaulting to a fixed primary display. This matters on multi-monitor setups: if you are editing a doc on your right-hand monitor and summon Jarvis, the bar opens there. You can then reposition it precisely with the arrow keys to keep it out of the way. When Jarvis reads your screen, it captures the display where it appeared, keeping context relevant. Since the AI runs in the cloud on frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, this all works without any GPU load. Pricing is the same regardless of monitor count: free plan (40 requests/week), then $16/month. Tokens are AES-256-GCM encrypted and GDPR-aligned on GDPR-aligned infrastructure.

Rather than pinning to a single "primary" monitor, Jarvis targets the display that currently has your focus. The window system reports where you are interacting, and the floating bar surfaces there when you press Cmd+/ or Ctrl+/. The practical benefit is zero hunting: you do not summon Jarvis only to find it on the wrong screen behind your work. This behavior is especially helpful for people who keep communication on one monitor and deep-work content on another.

Once the bar is up, you can move it with the arrow keys to nudge it into a corner or away from something important like a live presentation or a video tile. This gives you fine control on a per-screen basis: park it bottom-center on your main display, or tuck it into an edge on a secondary monitor. Because the placement responds to your focus and then to your nudges, you effectively decide where Jarvis lives on each screen without configuration menus.

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