justcla/windowhotkeys

Shortcuts to move and resize windows in Windows. Uses AutoHotkey.

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Justin is a Product Manager and Software Engineer with over twenty years' experience in software development and has worked for several large organisations including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, NewsCorp, Symantec, Booking.com, and more!

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• Formerly Program Manager on the Visual Studio IDE team at @Microsoft
• Formerly Senior Software Engineer for AzureDevOps @Microsoft

windowhotkeys's Issues

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Tile and Cascade don't work on Windows 11

Unfortunately, looks like Tile/Cascade was removed from Windows 11. The WindowsHotKeys calls to the Win32 API succeed and sometimes tile or cascade a couple windows on the screen, but not all and the Win32 API seems quite broken. Adding an issue here in case an alternative workaround can be found. I had my hopes up that this library would fix the Windows 11 woes of removal of tile/cascade options on the taskbar, but alas there is a bigger underlying problem than just a UI change to the taskbar.

    ; Tile and Cascade windows
    ReadAndStoreHotKeyAction(ShortcutsFile, "TileWindowsVertically", "TileWindowsVertically", "!#V")
    ReadAndStoreHotKeyAction(ShortcutsFile, "TileWindowsVertically2", "TileWindowsVertically", "!+#V")
    ReadAndStoreHotKeyAction(ShortcutsFile, "TileWindowsHorizontally", "TileWindowsHorizontally", "!#H")
    ReadAndStoreHotKeyAction(ShortcutsFile, "TileWindowsHorizontally2", "TileWindowsHorizontally", "!+#H")
    ReadAndStoreHotKeyAction(ShortcutsFile, "CascadeWindows", "CascadeWindows", "!#C")
    ReadAndStoreHotKeyAction(ShortcutsFile, "CascadeWindows2", "CascadeWindows", "!+#C")

Move window to previous desktop not working in Windows 11

I had to comment out the CurrentDesktop = 1 check in MoveToPrevious as CurrentDesktop seems to always be returning 1. Not sure if this was working in Windows 10 (the Windows 11 upgrade prompted me to install WindowHotKeys since Windows 11 has removed the ability to tile/cascade windows from the taskbar; I was thinking just thinking it would be awesome to be able to move windows between desktops - awesome WindowsHotKeys supports it!). With the fix moving windows between desktops seems to work great (if you try to move left from desktop 1, the window simply flashes once from hide/show, actually a nice feature).

MoveToPreviousDesktop()
{
    global CurrentDesktop, DesktopCount
    mapDesktopsFromRegistry()
    ; Check current desktop is not Desktop 1; if on desktop one, abort

    ;if (CurrentDesktop = 1) {
    ;    return
    ;}
    ; Move the window to the v-desktop on the left
    MoveWindowToOtherDesktop(CurrentDesktop, CurrentDesktop-1, DesktopCount) ; Move 1 v-desktop to the left
}

Add documentation for virtual desktop hotkeys to Readme.md

Very useful set of functionality, I only happened to find out about it by reading the code! The ability to move windows between desktops is super useful.

Documentation

Moving windows to the window edges

Alt + Win + [Home/End/PgUp/PgDn/Del]