Feature request: Sessions and variable arrangement

[anatabai]

Hi JGPaive,

thank you for GridMove!

I have two requests/suggestions:

1. sessions:
Position your windows and save the current arrangement. Later, e.g. after a reboot, restore the arrangement so all earlier opened windows will be opened again (just like sessions in internet browsers).

2. variable arrangement:
Instead of a rigid grid one have a completely flexible workspace. At start the first window grabs all desktop space. The 2nd window can be placed/inserted above, under, to the left or right of the first window. The 3rd window can then be placed/inserted similarly relative to the 1st or second window:
If it is placed above or under the 2nd window, the space occupied by the 2nd window is split into two equal halves, where the two windows (2nd and 3rd) are placed.
And so on with a lot of windows.
Perhaps one inconvenience is that one must handle all the positioning with the mouse, but it is the price for variability.
Some applications - like eclipse - have this feature to rearrange their GUI elements.

[jgpaiva]

Hello anatabai!

About 1)
Making sessions would involve storing the file path of the executable that owns the windows, and i don't think there's a way to access that information. (it's possible to know the name of the executable, but not its full path, afaik).
Saving a window layout to be applied when those same windows are open would be feasable and would make sense, though.

About 2)
This really is a program completely different from gridmove. Someone recently made a similar request, and i answered that there's a program that does exactly that, but unfortunatelly i still can't remember its name

Now, something important.
Although i'd like to implement the sessions into gridmove, that's not going to happen in the near future, as i am now finishing my university course and i don't have time for anything

[anatabai]

Hello anatabai!

About 1)
Making sessions would involve storing the file path of the executable that owns the windows, and i don't think there's a way to access that information. (it's possible to know the name of the executable, but not its full path, afaik).
Saving a window layout to be applied when those same windows are open would be feasable and would make sense, though.

-jgpaiva (April 24, 2008, 05:23 PM)

Hi,

I thought only about explorer windows. After browsing a little bit on this forum I found a post about Microsoft's GroupBar. It has so called snapshots which is what I wanted as "sessions". It can remember the paths. But I think, it is not ripe yet. It has only a rigid (max.) 3x2 grid

About 2)
This really is a program completely different from gridmove. Someone recently made a similar request, and i answered that there's a program that does exactly that, but unfortunatelly i still can't remember its name

-jgpaiva (April 24, 2008, 05:23 PM)

It would be great if you could recall it

i am now finishing my university course

-jgpaiva (April 24, 2008, 05:23 PM)

Good luck!