https://github.com/SofianeHamlaoui/movetocorner

A Movetocorner script for tilling WMs window
https://github.com/SofianeHamlaoui/movetocorner

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A Movetocorner script for tilling WMs window

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/SofianeHamlaoui/movetocorner
• Owner: SofianeHamlaoui
• Created: 2020-09-18T12:19:20.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-09-18T17:06:56.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-01T14:55:55.166Z (6 months ago)
• Language: Shell
• Size: 7.81 KB
• Stars: 7
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
# Move To Corner

A script to move i3 floating windows to screen corners.

# Functioning 

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SofianeHamlaoui/junk/master/Movetocorner.gif)

# How it works : 

For each corner, I used some small mathematical calculations, so it keeps only 1/4 of the window size visible on each corner.

- 1 - Uses xrandr to get the full screen resolution

- 2 - setting 2 variables half x and half y 

- 3 - using xdotool to get the selected window to move

- 4 - using xdotool again to move the window to a specific position, where this postiion is a result of 

mathematical calculations to have the exact postion of the window to keep only 1/4 of the window size visible.

- The presets

    ![1](https://i.imgur.com/bvDfrmQ.png)

    

- An image explaining how this works

    ![2](https://i.imgur.com/297KvMx.png)

## PS: You can check the script and understand more how this works.

# Screenshot : 

![](https://i.imgur.com/q8Z0iXl.png)

# Usage : 

> [1 from 9 keyboard numpad numbers]

```

./movetocorner.sh  [1-9]

```

# i3 config 

You can add this t your `i3/config file` by adding this : 

> you can get the keyboards X event content by softwares like : [xev](https://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/manpages/man/xev.1) (for example)

```

# #---Windows-to-corner---# #

bindsym $mod+KP_End   exec --no-startup-id ~/scripts/movetocorner 1

bindsym $mod+KP_Down  exec --no-startup-id ~/scripts/movetocorner 2

bindsym $mod+KP_Next  exec --no-startup-id ~/scripts/movetocorner 3

bindsym $mod+KP_Left  exec --no-startup-id ~/scripts/movetocorner 4

bindsym $mod+KP_Begin exec --no-startup-id ~/scripts/movetocorner 5

bindsym $mod+KP_Right exec --no-startup-id ~/scripts/movetocorner 6

bindsym $mod+KP_Home  exec --no-startup-id ~/scripts/movetocorner 7

bindsym $mod+KP_Up    exec --no-startup-id ~/scripts/movetocorner 8

bindsym $mod+KP_Prior exec --no-startup-id ~/scripts/movetocorner 9

```