Feature Request: Window positioning

[Sven-Dawitz]

I love what this program does and how it does it.

Would it be possible to add some window positioning parameters? Especially "full-screen" "snap-left" and "snap-right". I searched and it seems I cannot achieve that via other 3rd party tool or command line options.

If this was added, I could easily restore my default environment on login.

[Rimbaldo]

I agree with you!!!

[teoxoy]

This would be a nice addition. I am currently using cmdow and some math for this.

[sgaumin]

Hi @Teoxoy, please can you give an example of using vdesk with cmdow? Especially, how can you retrieve the reference of the window after opening it with vdesk?

Thank you in advance!

[teoxoy]

@sgaumin this is part of my batch script:

set handle=

:getHandle
for /f "tokens=1" %%r in ('"cmdow /t /f | find /i %*"') do set res=%%r
set handle=%res%
exit /b 0

vdesk 3
start /high /b "" "%APPDATA%\Spotify\Spotify.exe"
call :getHandle "Spotify"
cmdow %handle% /res /mov 1720 0 /siz 1720 1400

[sgaumin]

Thank you @Teoxoy for your quick response!

On my side, I wrote this similar line for each software I want to launch: vdesk on:2 noswitch:false run:"C:\Program Files (x86)\KeePass Password Safe 2\KeePass.exe"

Do you think that it is possible to identify and move a window launched like this?

[teoxoy]

I'm not sure anymore, but I think for cmdow to work, you need to have vdesk actually switch to the specific desktop.

[sgaumin]

For information, after some research I was able to position window by using an AutoHotKey script. Here is an example:

SetTitleMatchMode, 2 

SysGet, mainMonitorWorkArea, MonitorWorkArea, 1
SysGet, secondMonitorWorkArea, MonitorWorkArea, 2

mainMonitorMiddleWidth := mainMonitorWorkAreaRight/2
mainMonitorMiddleHeight := mainMonitorWorkAreaBottom/2

WinActivate, GitHub ; Looking for a window which has GitHub contains in its Title
WinWaitActive, GitHub
WinMaximize
WinMove, , , mainMonitorMiddleWidth, mainMonitorMiddleHeight, 0, 0
Sleep 100
SendInput {Lwin down}{Up}{Up}{LWin up}

ExitApp

Hoping it can help!