move-focused-window

Small program to place any current focused window to the center, left or right of the screen

Installation

make && make install <- will copy the binary to /usr/local/bin/move_focused_window

Creating Keyboard shortcuts

Linux

Open Keyboard settings and create a custom keyboard shortcut, for example win+c to execute /usr/local/bin/move_focused_window.

Windows

Windows do not allow create custom keyboard so easily, but using this application allows you create custom scripts to create custom keyboard shortcuts.

Download https://www.autohotkey.com/, create a new file script with ahk extension, for example C:\KeyboardShortcuts\MoveFocusedWindow.ahk, here's a little example:

^#Up::
{
    RunWait "C:\Bin\move_focused_window.exe", , "Hide"
}

^#Left::
{
    RunWait "C:\Bin\move_focused_window.exe --left --width 960", , "Hide"
}

^#Right::
{
    RunWait "C:\Bin\move_focused_window.exe --right --width 960", , "Hide"
}

Save it and double click the script to activate the custom shortcut.

Arguments

Command	Description
--top	Move the window in the Y axis of the screen
--left	Move the window in the X axis of the screen
--width [n]	Define the width to resize the window
--height [n]	Define the height to resize the window

Examples

> move_focused_window --left The window will be placed half of the screen to the left side.

> move_focused_window --right The window will be placed half of the screen to the right side.

> move_focused_window The window will be placed in the center of the screen with half size.

> move_focused_window --right --width 600 --height 1080 The window will be moved to the right side of the screen, resizing it to 600x1080.

Example

• > move_focused_window The window will be placed in the center of the screen with half width.
• > move_focused_window --direction right --width 960 The window will be placed to the right side of the screen with a width of 960px.
• > move_focused_window --direction left --width 960 The window will be placed to the right side of the screen with a width of 960px.