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Center align the playing area

Any chance we could center align the playing area. It is annoying to have a large monitor and still have the map covered by the tokens. The other option would be to allow me to move the player tokens.
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May I enquire? What res monitor amount of real estate is that? Looks lovely, making my laptop and even my HDMI TV feel extremely cramped. Are you the GM, and are y'all using Dynamic Lighting (which i guess YES since you're on PRO)? There is a workaround method, but your use case might exceed the limits of usability. For example if your current map "Page" is 30x60 square grid, instead make your page 250x60 squares and move the playable map area into the middle of that created page (setting the page background color to the color of your choosing, I prefer a much darker gray and darkening the greyness is the reason why I do this technique, to hide away that bright grey thatchmarked background texture, for visual accessibility). Short-name for this technique, create extremely large margins around your page.  On game day as GM, hold down SHIFT and PING (hold with mouse button), to force all the player's viewport to be centered on that ping-point.  So that if they have much smaller monitors, they'd be looking at the blackness on the left until you SHIFT-PING them to the centered playable map area that has the lighting, or asking them to scroll over to it. Yes this method comes with some drawbacks, limitations, and complications. The Page Settings Dialog will warn you every time for any Page size beyond 50x50 (warning you it might not work), but also yes it works / can work, I do it, even with LDL (legacy dynamic lighting) (Can be problematic), and certainly with normal regular fog of war (works fine, superior performance, definitely recommend this technique if you aren't using heavy DL).
Thanks for the tip, I like that suggestion although the roll 20 team should still fix this. The monitor is a 34' gaming monitor, resolution 3440x1440
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