peppy0510 / pywinlayout

Easily change windows layout with hotkey.

Features

• Easily change layout with hotkey.
• Works as a taskbar tray icon.
• Support multi-monitor desktop environment.
• Built-in preset automatically adapts to pivot screen horizontal and vertical.
• You can enable and disable "Run on Windows startup" from the tray icon menu.
• Aligns minimum or maximum size limited applications such as music player exactly to the edge of screen.

How to install

• Just download and install the latest release.
• Alternatively, if you like to build your own, download or clone a repository then execute makebuild.py. Python 3.x, Python packages in the requirements.pip file, and Inno Setup is required.

How to use

• Once you execute, then tray icon will shows up.
• Below table shows built-in preset.

NumLock is Turned On
Win+Num7(TopLeft)	Win+Num8(Top)	Win+Num9(TopRight)
Win+Num4(Left)	Win+Num5(Middle)	Win+Num6(Right)
Win+Num1(BottomLeft)	Win+Num2(Bottom)	Win+Num3(BottomRight)

Laptop keyboard
alt+ctrl+shift+7(TopLeft)	alt+ctrl+shift+8(Top)	alt+ctrl+shift+9(TopRight)
alt+ctrl+shift+U(Left)	alt+ctrl+shift+I(Middle)	alt+ctrl+shift+O(Right)
alt+ctrl+shift+J(BottomLeft)	alt+ctrl+shift+K(Bottom)	alt+ctrl+shift+L(BottomRight)

• Each hotkey is switched differently depending on the aspect ratio of the screen.
• To control windows such as Task Manager, you must run in administrator mode.

Supported platforms

• Microsoft Windows 10
• Other versions of Windows have not been tested yet.

TODO

• Mac OSX support.
• Preset editor, and JSON support.
• Preset handler for very small size screen.
• Bypass UAC confirmation when execute as administrator mode.