https://github.com/i-e-b/windowsjedi
Experiments in making windows more usable
https://github.com/i-e-b/windowsjedi
c-sharp ergonomics old position-windows shortcut windows windows-7 working
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Experiments in making windows more usable
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/i-e-b/windowsjedi
- Owner: i-e-b
- Created: 2012-09-25T21:42:55.000Z (over 12 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2018-01-15T15:53:05.000Z (over 7 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-27T12:11:12.641Z (5 months ago)
- Topics: c-sharp, ergonomics, old, position-windows, shortcut, windows, windows-7, working
- Language: C#
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- Size: 236 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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README
Windows Jedi
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Tools for making working with Windows more friendly.
Under Windows 10, this must be run as Administrator to take effect.
Requirements
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Windows 7 or higher with Aero enabled. Doesn't work without Aero features (yet)
What it does
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1. **Replace `Win-Tab`** with something more useful (a bit like expose, but with a significantly different way of packing
and selecting). Note that each thumbnail has a single character before it's name/label. Press this key to select the window.
Thumbnails are ordered left-to-right by z-order (same as alt-tab). Pop-up class windows (like
VisualStudio uses) are not shown by default.
* Press quick-key to select a window and exit switcher
* Press `tab` without `win` to toggle popups in the switcher
* Press `esc` to exit switcher without changing window focus.
2. **Focus-mode** `Shift-F12` dim other windows and make a best effort to prevent the focus-stealing that plagues Windows
3. **Hide popups**
`Win-Space` toggles visibility of pop-up windows. This is handy when using Visual Studio's mess of
a window set. Visibility toggle is conservative and system-wide. Stacking order is reversed on each display.
`Ctrl-Win-Space` toggles translucency of popups, making them see-through.
4. **Push-back** `Win-Escape` pushes the current foreground window to the back of the stack. Useful when you've got several reference windows open.
5. **Alignment** `Win-Alt-n` for n = 1 to 9, position windows on their current screen.
6. **Screen-switch** `Win-` move a window to a physical screen in that direction (does not wrap)
7. **Fade everything** `Ctrl-Win-Space` toggle a low alpha for all screens, so all windows are visible at once (doesn't work for VisualStudio)
8. **Reference Window** `Win-Minus` set the active window to be a reference - it will move to a screen beside the front-most window (works on multi-screen systems only)
Other stuff
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There is a file typer that will play back keyboard events from the text of a
file to the active window. Useful for VM driving and badly behaved UIs.
Ideas
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* Record to animated GIF - Overlay window with prep, record and stop buttons. Capture to an animated GIF.
* Keyboard navigation mode - display keyboard shortcuts to focus major aspects of the foreground window
* Maybe: a focus-set, where a few windows are tiled together and the main one can be rotated in.
Bugs
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* Capture screen needs to resize when switching dpi, or rescale resultant capture
* win-tab screen needs to detect changes to dektop layout (adding/removing screens)
* screen overlays (for focus/win-tab) need to be 1-per-screen to handle odd layouts.
Interesting code features
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Adapted from a few places; there is multi-monitor full screen overlay, hot-key action hooks, and a fast box packing algorithm.