When you save a tournament, you're saving everything to do with that tournament. That means you're saving the configuration you see on the Game tab, the Rounds schedule, the players, the prizes, the tables, the layout, the events, the chips, and the rules. Additionally you're saving the current tournament state, which is each player's current status (not bought-in, playing, busted out, etc), the current round, tournament history, etc. When you save your tournament, you should be able to exit the TD, restart the TD, load the tournament, and be
exactly where you previously left off. The only exception to this is the Layout. There is a preference that controls whether or not your layout is saved with your tournament, and whether or not a tournament saved with a layout will have the layout automatically loaded or not. This was done primarily to speed up loading of tournaments for stats. If you always use the same layout, you can set a layout as your default layout (so that it is always loaded and ready when you start up the TD). Then you can turn off the saving of layouts with tournaments. In the end, loading a tournament is much faster, since it doesn't contain the baggage of a layout.
The main "parts" of a tournament can also be saved and loaded independently. For example, you can load a rounds template at any time, even while you are running a tournament, without disrupting anything else. That is, loading a rounds template will replace your current rounds configuration without changing your prizes, or tables, or players, or anything other part of your tournament.
The other puzzlement is with extended display of the Tournament screen; the right click on laptop screen doesn't invoke a long menu where I can choose "screens" to change from seating arrangement to the clock, etc, but rather properties of characteristics of whatever settings tab is current.
If you want to change screens directly from the main (Game) window, right click and move the mouse over the "Screens" option. This will open a sub-menu with the various screens to choose from.
Likewise, Hot keys functioning seems disabled, ctl-B does not invoke player list except when on the controls tab, or the cursor is on the extended display, and the numeric hot keys don't switch screens on the extended display, regardless of lock or unlock on the controls tab or cursor location. So somewhere I've botched some setting(s), but which one(s)?
Hotkeys work on the Game window at all times, UNLESS the Settings window is open. The Settings window is
modal, which means it takes control of the application and you cannot use the Game window until the Settings window is closed. Your mouse doesn't "reach" the Game window when the Settings window is open. Trying to click on the Game window while the Settings window is open will result in the title bar of the Settings window flashing and you'll hear your system default "gong" sound. This is how all applications behave that utilize modal windows. Close the Settings window and hotkeys should work just fine from the Game window.
Certain hotkeys will also work in certain places when the Settings window is open. For example, function keys (F1 through F12) should work everywhere. That's because function keys don't interfere with user input (you'll never need to press F12 when entering an Event Name, for example). Other hotkeys will work with two caveats: they are disabled on Settings tabs that have inputs where you type a value, such as the Game tab. If they were enabled here, then the hotkeys 1 through 9, which by default will switch the Game window to the corresponding screen, would cause the Game window to change when you typed a numeric value in one of the inputs. Therefore hotkeys are disabled here (again except for the function keys). Some other tabs don't have inputs, and so hotkeys wouldn't interfere with user input. They will work here, but there is a preference that controls this, so you'll need to make sure the preference is enabled. You'll find it on the Preferences tab in the Behavior category (on the left). It's a checkbox about halfway down labeled
Allow hotkeys on all Settings tabs that do not have inputs.