There is no way to use "figure" to explicitly set which monitor the figure displays on, but there is a workaround that is fairly straightforward.
Using the "MonitorPositions" root object you can get the position of each display in MATLAB "Position" arguments.
Please run the below command in the MATLAB R2018b command window to access the release specific documentation. For more information on "MonitorPositions," refer to the "Display Information" section within the documentation:
web(fullfile(docroot, 'matlab/ref/matlab.ui.root-properties.html'))
And then you can set the "Position" of the figure to that. To do this for the secondary monitor execute the following MATLAB commands:
>> p = get(0, "MonitorPositions")
>> f.Position = p(2, :) % second display
>> f.WindowState = "maximized"
Using "WindowState" set to "maximized" prevents overlap with docks and status bars on the screen.
To do this for the primary monitor, this code applies:
>> f.Position = p(1, :) % first display
>> f.WindowState = "maximized"
If you want every figure to open in the size the current figure is, you can set the "DefaultFigurePosition" in the graphics root settings. For more information, you can run the following command in MATALAB R2018b command prompt to view the "Default Property Values" documentation page:
web(fullfile(docroot, 'matlab/creating_plots/default-property-values.html'))
>> set(0, "DefaultFigurePosition", f.Position
To undo this and return figures to their standard default settings, execute
>> set(0, "DefaultFigurePosition", 'remove')
Please follow the below link to search for the required information regarding the current release:
