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screen split in half/quarters/thirds (like subtle wm)

Started by TheCompiler , Oct 10 2012 11:24 AM

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#1 TheCompiler

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Posted 10 October 2012 - 11:24 AM

Heya,

since I was annoyed I couldn't control windows nicely with the keyboard at work, I wrote this script. It allows you to align windows nicely by splitting the screen into halves, quarters and thirds.

Win+Arrow Keys does the same as in Windows 7 (I think) - Up maximizes, down restores/minimizes, left and right are the respective halves of the screen.

With Win+Numpad, 8/4/6/2 (Up/Left/Right/Down) are the respective halves of the screen, and 7/9/1/3 (diagonales) are quarters. 5 is maximize, 0 is minimize.

With Win+Ctrl+Numpad, the screen is split in 3x3 parts, every number (1-9) on the numpad is the respective part on the screen (basically like subtle, for the Linux-users... I think.)

Some ascii-arts from the source to make this more clear:

;; Windows + Arrow keys is mapped like this:
;;
;;                 +----+
;;                 |####| Up: maximize
;;                 |####|
;;                 |####|
;;            +----+----+----+
;; Left:      |##  |    |  ##|
;; use left   |##  |    |  ##| right: use right half of the screen
;; half of    |##  |    |  ##|
;; the screen +----+----+----+
;;                  Down: restore or minimize
;;
;; Windows + Numpad keys is mapped like this:
;; (screen divided in halfs/quarters)
;; +----+ +----+ +----+
;; |77  | |8888| |  99|
;; |77  | |8888| |  99|
;; |    | |    | |    |
;; |    | |    | |    |
;; +----+ +----+ +----+
;; |44  | |5555| |  66|
;; |44  | |5555| |  66|
;; |44  | |5555| |  66|
;; |44  | |5555| |  66|
;; +----+ +----+ +----+ 
;; |    | |    | |    | 
;; |    | |    | |    |
;; |11  | |2222| |  33| 
;; |11  | |2222| |  33| 
;; +----+ +----+ +----+ 
;; 0: Restore/Minimize
;;
;; Windows + Ctrl + Numpad keys is mapped like this:
;; (screen divided in thirds)
;; +---+ +---+ +---+
;; |7  | | 8 | |  9|
;; |   | |   | |   |
;; |   | |   | |   |
;; +---+ +---+ +---+
;; |   | |   | |   |
;; |4  | | 5 | |  6|
;; |   | |   | |   |
;; +---+ +---+ +---+ 
;; |   | |   | |   | 
;; |   | |   | |   | 
;; |1  | | 2 | |  3| 
;; +---+ +---+ +---+ 
;; 0: Restore/Minimize

You can find the script and the exe at http://g.cmpl.cc/wingravity.

Feedback and suggestions are really appreciated, and if someone can test it in Windows 7 or with multimonitor-setups I'd be glad.

Florian

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#2 umetnic

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Posted 27 October 2012 - 03:50 PM

...and if someone can test it in Windows 7 or with multimonitor-setups I'd be glad.

Florian

Hi Florian, I like it a lot ;D

Win7 and two monitors here.

It only works for primary monitor - if the window of some random app is on secondary monitor, then when I want to position it with any of the options, it moves the window to primary monitor and positions it there. Any idea how to make it work for secondary monitor also?