benziahamed/alfred2-layout

Alfred 2 Layout workflow

Alfred 2 layout workflow

A simple window layouter based on an Alfred 2 workflow.

Description

The workflow itself is quite simple just typ in the keyword "lay" (or chose another of your liking) followed by:

• full = Maximize
• left, right, top, bottom = Halves of screen
• topleft, topright, bottomleft, bottomright = Quaters of screen
• center = Center of screen (with 10% border)
• 11,12,13,21,22,23,31,32,33 = Thrids of screen
• 11-12,11-13,11-21,11-22 ... = Some other sizes based on thrids
• togglefullscreen = Toggle full screen mode of active window (if possible)
• ... well the script is quite flexible, so I'm waiting for suggestions

It is multi-screen-able. Even though you cannot move windows from one screen to another (yet?) the scripts tries to figure out with screen you mean (depending on the size of the visible area).

Screenshots

Implementation notes

• The script is written in python using PyObjC and the ScriptingBridge. This should be no problem as both is shiped as part of MacOS since 10.5.
• It the application supports scripting, the window is moved "directly". Unluckily some Applications do not support this, so there is a fallback using "SystemEvents". This only works if you have UI scripting enabled: Graphic User Interface (GUI) Scripting
• At the moment there are no hotkeys defined, which should be straight forward though ...

Licence

MIT Licence