SNAP ASSIST WINDOWS 10 WINDOWS
Now that PowerToys FancyZones has better support for keyboard shortcuts, I may try them again before deciding what works best for me.The Snap feature – a window management feature introduced in the earlier version of Windows has been improved in the latest version viz. Right now, I alternate between using both methods: my custom keyboard shortcuts and the built-in window snapping. Unfortunately, I have to use the mouse to do this, as I have not found a keyboard shortcut to do it with. I can resize the panes of a Snap layout by dragging the dividing line between two adjacent windows.
I can also do this with just the keyboard by pressing Win+ T to focus the taskbar, the arrow keys to select a snap group, and Enter to bring the windows to the foreground. When you select such a group, all its windows are brought to the foreground. Multiple windows are placed in a snap layout for a snap group that appears in the taskbar next to the other windows for each application in the snap group. The built-in window snapping gives me more flexibility in setting up layouts (without having to remember too many custom keystrokes).However, there are some advantages as well: The obvious disadvantage is that I usually need more keystrokes to accomplish this. Using this method, I can achieve all the common layouts supported by my custom AutoHotKey shortcuts. Then I can use snap assist or Win and the arrow keys to place another window in the newly available part of the screen. In layouts with only 2 zones horizontally, I can then use Win+ Up or Win+ Down to place the window only in the top or only in the bottom half of its zone. I can cancel the filling of all zones with Esc. Perhaps it is because these applications have customized their title bar.Īfter I do this, snap assist pops up for each of the remaining zones in the selected layout, so I can use the arrow keys to select a window to place there and press Enter to confirm the selection. Interestingly, this does not seem to work for all windows, as it does with the keyboard shortcut. The snap layouts popup window also appears if you hover the mouse over the maximize window button for a while.
Finally, I position the window in the selected zone with the Enter key. In it, I can Tab and Shift+ Tab to select a layout and use the arrow keys to select a zone.
Then I open the snap layouts popup window with Win+ Z.