https://github.com/mattddowney/contort

Change the behavior of running Windows applications from the command line. Prevent closing, disable menus, hide an app's gui and more.
https://github.com/mattddowney/contort

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Change the behavior of running Windows applications from the command line. Prevent closing, disable menus, hide an app's gui and more.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mattddowney/contort
• Owner: mattddowney
• License: mit
• Created: 2019-05-12T23:52:13.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-04-19T03:20:50.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-11T15:24:51.752Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Topics: admin-tools, cli, command-line, disable-ui, gui, terminal, ui, win32, windows
• Language: Go
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• Size: 23.4 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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Contort

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Change the behavior and appearance of running Windows applications from the command line. 

### Disable an application's close button

![contortPreventClose](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/524968/79677714-804dd380-81b1-11ea-95df-3572ff458331.gif)

Sometimes you want an application to run, but you don't want your users to be able to close it.

Simply run `contort disable  --close`.

### Disable minimizing and maximizing

![contortDisableMinMax](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/524968/79677723-85ab1e00-81b1-11ea-809e-405bb5fa3ed8.gif)

With contort you can toggle multiple window styles at once.

To prevent minimizing and maximizing, run `contort disable  --minimize --maximize`.

### Disable an application's menubar

![contortDisableMenu](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/524968/79677778-ecc8d280-81b1-11ea-9202-be9266ca25a7.gif)

Quite often key settings are located in an application's menu.

Lock the menu down by disabling it completely with `contort disable  --menu`.

### Hide and show windows

![contortHideShow](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/524968/79677779-f4887700-81b1-11ea-9677-29d86ac31252.gif)

Maybe you want your GUI application to run in the background without your user's knowledge.

This is possible by running `contort hide `.

Installation

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Clone the repo: `git clone https://github.com/mattddowney/contort`

Navigate into the cloned folder and run: `go install`

Usage

-----

```

usage: contort []  [ ...]

Modify the behavior and appearance of a window.

https://github.com/mattddowney/contort

Flags:

  --help     Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man).

  --version  Show application version.

Commands:

  help [...]

    Show help.

  disable [] 

    Disable part of a window's GUI.

    --close     Disable a window's close button.

    --maximize  Disable a window's maximize button.

    --menu      Disable a window's menu bar. Once disabled, a window's menu bar

                cannot be re-enabled.

    --minimize  Disable a window's minimize button.

    --titlebar  Disable a window's titlebar.

  enable [] 

    Enable part of a window's GUI.

    --close     Enable a window's close button.

    --maximize  Enable a window's maximize button.

    --minimize  Enable a window's minimize button.

    --titlebar  Enable a window's titlebar.

  hide 

    Hide a window.

  list

    List all window titles.

  maximize 

    Maximize a window.

  minimize 

    Minimize a window.

  move --x=X --y=Y 

    Move a window.

    --x=X  X position

    --y=Y  Y position

  restore 

    Restore a window to it's state before minimizing or maximizing.

  show 

    Show a window.

```