Just wondering if anyone knows of a way to do this?
Here’s my use case in more detail
I have a laptop and a PC, with the laptop connecting to one of my 2 monitors via an HDMI splitter. This allows me to use my PC on both screens most of the time, but then quickly switch one monitor to show the laptop, when required.
Only thing is that doing that causes all PC windows* on Screen 2 to jump to Screen 1, while Screen 2 now shows the laptop’s windows. That’s fine, and I get why it does that (effectively the PC thinks I’ve disconnected Screen 2).
* (usually it’s a bunch of Chrome windows, 5-7 of them - for work/multi-client reasons this works best for me and my PC handles it fine)
When I switch the HDMI splitter back, all PC windows remain on Screen 1, while Screen 2 is once again showing my PC desktop, but with no windows. Ideally all windows would flip back to where they were before, but I don’t think there’s a way to do this, and again, that’s fine.
My next preferred option is to be able to able to move all Chrome windows over from Screen 1 to Screen 2 quickly - and this is what I’m looking for advice on. I can’t seem to find a way to “select” all/multiple Chrome windows and shift them to Screen 2, but it feels like there must be a way?
Any help greatly appreciated :-)
I use something called “TAN Windows Manager” to save windows position and restore them, it may be what you want
https://github.com/Todd1561/TANWindowMgr
Check also this one https://github.com/kangyu-california/PersistentWindows
Also I never tried it but windows powertoys fancy zones may help you, you can edit layout and all
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows/powertoys/fancyzones
I too will have to checkout TAN.
I can say from experience that power toys fancy zones is really cool and I recommend it but it doesn’t move the windows back. Some programs also refuse to snap to them (voicemeter) or completly disregards the zones on startup(Spotify).
I’ve been using persistent windows for the same reason, and it does t seem to play well with multiple browser windows on multiple screens. Just FYI
Cool, thanks. I already use Power Toys, and had hoped it might have something, but sadly not.
Will check out those other two though, thanks a lot 👍