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A bash script to move the focused window in X to different parts of the screen. Most useful when you assign shortcut keys to the various options, e.g. assign '<Super>Up' to run 'swind up'
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # Written by Andrew McDonough | |
| # Prerequisites: xdotool must be installed and in your path (http://tinyurl.com/xdotool) | |
| # A simple bash script that uses xdotool to move the window that is currently in focus to different parts of the screen. | |
| # Particularly useful for reading web pages with flexible layouts on wide monitors. | |
| # Assign the various options to keyboard shortcuts e.g. '<Super>Left' assigned to 'swind left' | |
| # See http://tinyurl.com/ubuntukeys for help with assigning keyboard shortcuts. | |
| # sudo apt install xdotool | |
| # get screen width | |
| width=`xdotool getdisplaygeometry | awk '{print $1;}'` | |
| # get screen height | |
| height=`xdotool getdisplaygeometry | awk '{print $2;}'` | |
| # get current focused window | |
| winid=`xdotool getwindowfocus` | |
| # window will be resized to half screen width | |
| HalfWidth=$(( $width/2 )) | |
| HalfHeight=$(( $height/2 )) | |
| OneThirdHeight=$(( $height/3 )) | |
| TwoThirdsHeight=$(( $OneThirdHeight*2 )) | |
| case "$1" in | |
| '') | |
| echo "Usage: swind <left|right|top|bottom|top-left|top-right|bottom-left|bottom-right>" | |
| ;; | |
| 'left') | |
| xdotool windowmove $winid 0 0 | |
| xdotool windowsize $winid $HalfWidth $height | |
| ;; | |
| 'right') | |
| xdotool windowmove $winid $HalfWidth 0 | |
| xdotool windowsize $winid $HalfWidth $height | |
| ;; | |
| 'top') | |
| xdotool windowmove $winid 0 0 | |
| xdotool windowsize $winid $width $HalfHeight | |
| ;; | |
| 'bottom') | |
| xdotool windowmove $winid 0 $HalfHeight | |
| xdotool windowsize $winid $width $HalfHeight | |
| ;; | |
| 'top-left') | |
| xdotool windowmove $winid 0 0 | |
| xdotool windowsize $winid $HalfWidth $TwoThirdsHeight | |
| ;; | |
| 'top-right') | |
| xdotool windowmove $winid $HalfWidth 0 | |
| xdotool windowsize $winid $HalfWidth $TwoThirdsHeight | |
| ;; | |
| 'bottom-left') | |
| xdotool windowmove $winid 0 $OneThirdHeight | |
| xdotool windowsize $winid $HalfWidth $TwoThirdsHeight | |
| ;; | |
| 'bottom-right') | |
| xdotool windowmove $winid $HalfWidth $OneThirdHeight | |
| xdotool windowsize $winid $HalfWidth $TwoThirdsHeight | |
| ;; | |
| esac |
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