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Thanks for sharing; I particularly like the looks of FancyZones - it'll really save me time arranging my Terminal windows etc, and also assist setting up standa

Thanks for sharing; I particularly like the looks of FancyZones - it'll really save me time arranging my Terminal windows etc, and also assist setting up standard layouts of working.

PhaseLockk 7y ago
FancyZones looks like a godsend for those with ultrawide monitors. Not being able to effectively divide up the space was always a drawback compared with just having two normal sized monitors, this could solve that issue.
- sundvor 7y ago
  Yep, I have one of those - 3440 x 1440 is fantastic for dev, and now there are even bigger ones as well available. I have a couple of 16:10 ones surrounding it.
- mszcz 7y ago
  I agree. I do have an ultrawide monitor and a secondary monitor and it seems that FancyZones doesn't (yet?) have support for multiple monitors. It looks nice and is useful but I'll be sticking to GridMove for window management for the time being.
crispinb 7y ago
I think it will be very useful. Even just being able to retrieve the Win + arrow keys from the bizarre Windows Snap 'feature' will be great. It's not quite ready for daily use yet. Behaviour across multiple monitors I've found unpredictable, the layout editor doesn't really work, and it does some peculiar things (like grabbing hold of the task bar Search window and trying to tile it, fortunately without resizing). [edit: it also substantially slows switching between virtual desktop on my machine]
gregmac 7y ago
The FancyZones backlog page [1] links to a bunch of issues from a project that no longer exists [2]. However, the same org has a new fork of the Microsoft repo called powertoys-staging [3]. Anyone have insight into who Janea Systems [4] is or the history of this project? [1] https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/master/doc/planning/FancyZonesBacklog.md https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/master/doc/plann... [2] https://github.com/JaneaSystems/powertoys https://github.com/JaneaSystems/powertoys [3] https://github.com/JaneaSystems/PowerToys-staging https://github.com/JaneaSystems/PowerToys-staging [4] http://www.janeasystems.com/ http://www.janeasystems.com/
- wayneftw 7y ago
  They're headquartered in Washington state, same as Microsoft. My guess is that it's a company formed by some Microsoft alumni. They do some interesting work.
mszcz 7y ago
I’ve been using GridMove [1] for last couple of years and it’s been great. I can quickly move a window to a specific location using a keyboard shortcut, fix windows Windows moved when I attached displays or came back from sleep. FancyZones does look more polished but I wonder if it has multiple monitor support. [1] http://www.dcmembers.com/jgpaiva/ http://www.dcmembers.com/jgpaiva/
vanderZwan 7y ago
Not on Windows at the moment, but I agree that it looks really useful! I wonder if it combines well with http://taekwindow.net/ http://taekwindow.net/ so that dragging windows around becomes a mere Alt + drag operation. (I haven't used Taekwindow since XP so I'm not sure if it still works with modern incarnations)
lysp 7y ago
I use Display Fusion - and it's virtual window manager. I have Monitor 1 full width, but monitor 2 split as 2 virtual monitors 60% | 40%.
- sundvor 7y ago
  Thanks, will need to check it out as well. I seem to spend a fair amount of time organising my Terminal windows just so on my second screen; would like to make this more efficient.

Thanks for sharing; I particularly like the looks of FancyZones - it'll really save me time arranging my Terminal windows etc, and also assist setting up standard layouts of working.

PhaseLockk 7y ago

FancyZones looks like a godsend for those with ultrawide monitors. Not being able to effectively divide up the space was always a drawback compared with just having two normal sized monitors, this could solve that issue.

sundvor 7y ago
Yep, I have one of those - 3440 x 1440 is fantastic for dev, and now there are even bigger ones as well available. I have a couple of 16:10 ones surrounding it.
mszcz 7y ago
I agree. I do have an ultrawide monitor and a secondary monitor and it seems that FancyZones doesn't (yet?) have support for multiple monitors. It looks nice and is useful but I'll be sticking to GridMove for window management for the time being.

crispinb 7y ago

I think it will be very useful. Even just being able to retrieve the Win + arrow keys from the bizarre Windows Snap 'feature' will be great. It's not quite ready for daily use yet. Behaviour across multiple monitors I've found unpredictable, the layout editor doesn't really work, and it does some peculiar things (like grabbing hold of the task bar Search window and trying to tile it, fortunately without resizing). [edit: it also substantially slows switching between virtual desktop on my machine]

gregmac 7y ago

The FancyZones backlog page [1] links to a bunch of issues from a project that no longer exists [2]. However, the same org has a new fork of the Microsoft repo called powertoys-staging [3]. Anyone have insight into who Janea Systems [4] is or the history of this project? [1] https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/master/doc/planning/FancyZonesBacklog.md https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/master/doc/plann... [2] https://github.com/JaneaSystems/powertoys https://github.com/JaneaSystems/powertoys [3] https://github.com/JaneaSystems/PowerToys-staging https://github.com/JaneaSystems/PowerToys-staging [4] http://www.janeasystems.com/ http://www.janeasystems.com/

wayneftw 7y ago
They're headquartered in Washington state, same as Microsoft. My guess is that it's a company formed by some Microsoft alumni. They do some interesting work.

mszcz 7y ago

I’ve been using GridMove [1] for last couple of years and it’s been great. I can quickly move a window to a specific location using a keyboard shortcut, fix windows Windows moved when I attached displays or came back from sleep. FancyZones does look more polished but I wonder if it has multiple monitor support. [1] http://www.dcmembers.com/jgpaiva/ http://www.dcmembers.com/jgpaiva/

vanderZwan 7y ago

Not on Windows at the moment, but I agree that it looks really useful! I wonder if it combines well with http://taekwindow.net/ http://taekwindow.net/ so that dragging windows around becomes a mere Alt + drag operation. (I haven't used Taekwindow since XP so I'm not sure if it still works with modern incarnations)

lysp 7y ago

I use Display Fusion - and it's virtual window manager. I have Monitor 1 full width, but monitor 2 split as 2 virtual monitors 60% | 40%.

sundvor 7y ago
Thanks, will need to check it out as well. I seem to spend a fair amount of time organising my Terminal windows just so on my second screen; would like to make this more efficient.