Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

@fvdnabee

fvdnabee/move-to-next-monitor.sh

Created February 3, 2014 11:18
Show Gist options

  • Select an option

    Learn more about clone URLs
  • Save fvdnabee/8782219 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.

Select an option

Learn more about clone URLs
Save fvdnabee/8782219 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Download ZIP

Revisions

  1. Floris Van den Abeele created this gist Feb 3, 2014.
    59 changes: 59 additions & 0 deletions move-to-next-monitor.sh
    View file
    Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
    @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
    #!/bin/sh
    #
    # Move the current window to the other vertical monitor. Adapted from the
    # scripts for horizontal monitors at makandracards.com
    #
    # Only works on a 2x1 vertical monitor setup.
    # Also works only on one X screen (which is the most common case).
    #
    # Props to
    # http://icyrock.com/blog/2012/05/xubuntu-moving-windows-between-monitors/
    # http://makandracards.com/makandra/12447-how-to-move-a-window-to-the-next-monitor-on-xfce-xubuntu
    #
    # Unfortunately, both "xdotool getwindowgeometry --shell $window_id" and
    # checking "-geometry" of "xwininfo -id $window_id" are not sufficient, as
    # the first command does not respect panel/decoration offsets and the second
    # will sometimes give a "-0-0" geometry. This is why we resort to "xwininfo".

    window_id=`xdotool getactivewindow`

    screen_height=`xdpyinfo | awk '/dimensions:/ { print $2; exit }' | cut -d"x" -f2`
    lower_display_height=`xdotool getdisplaygeometry | cut -d" " -f2`
    upper_display_height=`expr $screen_height - $lower_display_height`

    # Remember if it was maximized.
    window_state=`xprop -id $window_id _NET_WM_STATE | awk '{ print $3 }'`

    # Un-maximize current window so that we can move it
    wmctrl -ir $window_id -b remove,maximized_vert,maximized_horz

    # Read window position
    x=`xwininfo -id $window_id | awk '/Absolute upper-left X:/ { print $4 }'`
    y=`xwininfo -id $window_id | awk '/Absolute upper-left Y:/ { print $4 }'`

    # Subtract any offsets caused by panels or window decorations
    x_offset=`xwininfo -id $window_id | awk '/Relative upper-left X:/ { print $4 }'`
    y_offset=`xwininfo -id $window_id | awk '/Relative upper-left Y:/ { print $4 }'`
    x=`expr $x - $x_offset`
    y=`expr $y - $y_offset`

    # Compute new Y position
    if [ $y -gt $upper_display_height ]; then
    new_y=`expr $y - $upper_display_height` # window on lower display -> substract for new position
    else
    new_y=`expr $y + $upper_display_height` # window on upper display -> add for new position
    fi

    # We respect the window's height here: moving a window off more than half its height won't happen.
    height=`xdotool getwindowgeometry $window_id | awk '/Geometry:/ { print $2 }'|cut -d"x" -f2`
    if [ `expr $new_y + $height / 2` -gt $screen_height ]; then
    new_y=`expr $new_y - $height`
    fi

    # Move the window
    xdotool windowmove $window_id $x $new_y

    # Maximize window again, if it was before
    if [ -n "${window_state}" ]; then
    wmctrl -ir $window_id -b add,maximized_vert,maximized_horz
    fi