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Arranging and sizing app windows? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’m very new to shortcuts but excited to learn to make my own.

I do a weekly review at the end of each workweek. On my Mac, I open my calendar, notes and tasks and go through everything. I’ve successfully made a shortcut opening two apps in Split View. With 3 apps, though, I’d like to open 2 of them on a quarter of the screen each, and one filling the other half. Is it possible to set this up in shortcuts so I don’t have to manually arrange and resize the windows every time?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This shortcut stores the name of applications as the key and the resize configurations as the value in a dictionary. For each entry, it opens the apps and resizes the windows as configured. A delay is added as the UI sometimes fails to catch up. There’s also a bug where the bottom edge can’t be reached. Not sure if it’s the OS or my environment. Hope it works for you.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I’m going to look into it to see how it all works!

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