FancyZones HotKey/Shortcut for swaping windows between screens.

[PlasticDevs]

FancyZones HotKey/Shortcut for swaping windows between screens.

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• Swap Monitor contents (#24701), similarity score: 0.82

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• Swap Windows between Two FancyZones (#14968), similarity score: 0.81
• Allow swap Windows between Zones (#31120), similarity score: 0.80
• [Fancy zones feature] Windows zone swapper (#24170), similarity score: 0.80
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I've checked the similar issues, both open and closed, ticket #14968 is very similar, but not quite the same. That said, that ticket was wrongly closed as it initially appeared to be a duplicate when it was not. Also want to clarify that this is not a duplicate of ticket #13689 either, they are different. :)

[crutkas]

Why doesn’t win+shift+left/right arrow key work? That is the built in keystroke for windows for an instant swap. /needinfo

[PlasticDevs]

Why doesn’t win+shift+left/right arrow key work? That is the built in keystroke for windows for an instant swap. /needinfo

Hey @crutkas ,

win+shift+left/right arrow, allows you to quickly send a window to another screen, but, as far as I know, there is no shortcut to swap windows between screens in one go.

As mentioned in the ticket description, to use win + shift + arrow to do it, its always a multi step process.

For example, lets say you are testing something on a website you are developing on your main screen while having on your secondary monitor some sort of trace running on a IDE for the website you have on the main screen.
If you wish to quickly swap window in the main screen with the one in the secondary one you would need to:

1. Focus by clicking on the website browser window on your main screen.
2. Move the browser window to the secondary monitor with "Win + Shift + arrow" or mouse drag + snap.
3. Focus by clicking on the IDE window running the trace.
4. Move the IDE window to the main monitor using "Win + Shift + arrow" or mouse drag + snap.

What I would be proposing would be a key shortcut that would allow to quickly and easily swap the "active" windows in each screen between screens.

Hope this description clarifies the difference between the existing windows/fancy zones functionality and the proposal I have, If not I can try to create a small gif or something to showcase it better.