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comment by Lorin · 2022-01-19 · in Show HN: DevToys.app – An offline Swiss Army knife for developers

…works well for me. I also like the fact that it's first-party, free and open-source: Project page: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys FancyZones docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/powertoys/fancyzone...

comment by jmiserez · 2021-12-22 · in LG’s new 16:18 monitor

Check out the Windows 10 PowerToys https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys With it you can hold Shift when moving a window, and the window will snap to a predefined grid. There are also other nice tools, like a Color picker when you press…

comment by captainmuon · 2021-09-03 · in Designing Aero Snap (2009)

You can get this functionality in Windows 10 using PowerToys https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

comment by clwg · 2021-08-31 · in Windows 11 available on October 5

…tools only work on the extra buttons and not on your existing buttons. So you need something like https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys As for the mouse the value of remapping buttons is more limited IMHO since the act of pressing a…

comment by PaulHoule · 2021-07-26 · in Ask HN: Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?

…using React Native through their FluentUI[3]. Would be curious if anyone knows more info on it. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/tree/fa92f2e581e8c74c... [2] https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/tree/fa92f2e581e8c74c... [3]…

comment by derimagia · 2021-06-25 · in MS Teams Switches from AngularJS to React, Ditches Electron.

…option. There's also an open issue asking about adding the idea to the applicable Windows PowerToy: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/6976

comment by WorldMaker · 2021-05-19 · in Material You – The next stage for Material Design

…a direct counterpart to i3, I'd recommend taking a look at FancyZones in the Power Toys project: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

comment by kumarharsh · 2021-04-22 · in Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys has reliable key remapping. Also has decent window tiling.

comment by waych · 2021-02-15 · in I Love Coding on Linux

…might be worth a look. [0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/powerrena... [1] https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

comment by Ennea · 2020-12-25 · in Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

…that is with Powertoys FancyZones. Its not exactly a tiling windows manager but its close enough. https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/wiki/FancyZones-Overv...

comment by lhoff · 2020-12-16 · in I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager

…for their windows update, but sometimes they give us some really nice tools (see also the PowerToys https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys )

comment by NKosmatos · 2020-12-04 · in Ethr Is a Comprehensive Network Measurement Tool for TCP, UDP and ICMP

…to move windows between these "fancy zones" instead. Maybe this is interesting for you? https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases

comment by _Microft · 2020-11-16 · in Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)

…as Alfred. For example, you can't even just get folders. There's an issue open here about this: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/3347

comment by pier25 · 2020-10-23 · in How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

See Power Toys Run https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

comment by sbisson · 2020-10-23 · in How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

On a side note, there is a related feature request for PowerToys, and my app is mentioned there: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/1684

comment by noseratio · 2020-10-18 · in Show HN: A simple app to make Ctrl+V paste unformatted text by default (Windows)

…FancyZones? I find it works well enough to be worth installing on all my windows computers. https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/wiki/FancyZones-Overv...

comment by Raphmedia · 2020-09-18 · in On Browser Tabs

you can easily remap keys with PowerToys... https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

comment by spixy · 2020-08-28 · in Scrollbar Blindness

You might like this thing - https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

comment by nocubicles · 2020-08-26 · in Ask HN: Win10 Power User Resources?

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases/tag/v0.20.1

comment by KaungMyat182804 · 2020-08-23 · in Microsoft PowerToys for Windows 10

Oh PowerToys, you’re back, I’ve missed you so much https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

comment by mastazi · 2020-08-14 · in Microsoft Open Source

Microsoft is adding one to PowerToys: https://github.com/microsoft/powertoys

comment by jzelinskie · 2020-06-23 · in The End of OS X

…arbitrary set of maximizable zones. Highly recommend if the normal 4 corners isn't enough for you. https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/tree/master/src/modul...

comment by Godel_unicode · 2020-06-18 · in Time to Upgrade Your Monitor

The new PowerToys [1] are interesting too, though somewhat different in scope from the old ones. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

comment by shadowfox · 2020-06-12 · in Windows Explorer Through the Years

…Ultrawide Dell for home work and it's a huge benefit. Coupled with FancyZones from PowerToys ( https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys ) it's even better. You might think, well if you're just using FancyZones to split the screen up again…

comment by nmstoker · 2020-06-10 · in Two Screens

…Windows IMO. It has absolutely transformed how I work and noticeably increased my productivity. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

comment by ObsoleteNerd · 2020-05-29 · in But no, 80-column terminals in 2020 isn't “reasonable” any more

…everything will of course get a different alternate look. Some more discussion about it here: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/44 It looks like there isn't anyone at Microsoft who can take a look at the big picture and decide…

comment by 4cao · 2020-05-26 · in What Microsoft got right about power users, but not quite

…With FancyZones you can either use one of the presets or freely define your window snap zones: > https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

comment by rostigerpudel · 2020-05-02 · in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it

…feature isn't shipping with Windows 10. It is included with the optional PowerToys software. https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

comment by runjake · 2020-04-24 · in If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right

…with two zones each, then overlayed a bunch of smaller zones for stuff like terminal windows, etc. https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/tree/master/src/modul...

comment by erikbye · 2020-04-18 · in X410 – X Server for Windows 10

…to the concept. Until you've used a tiled window manager, it's hard to see the benefits. [0]: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/master/src/modul...

comment by nickjj · 2020-02-17 · in i3 4.18

…outside of Linux, but there is a WM tool in Microsoft's Powertoys repo which looks intriguing. https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/master/README.md

comment by krilly · 2020-01-26 · in I went back working on 24-inch 1080p screen from a 32-inch 4k screen

…recently rebooted Microsoft PowerToys includes an app directly similar to divvy called Fancy Zones: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/tree/master/src/modul...

comment by WorldMaker · 2019-10-14 · in Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

You may want to check out FancyZones https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/master/src/modul...

comment by pitaj · 2019-10-02 · in Microsoft introduces Windows 10 X for dual-screen devices

From the existing backlog, this is a close representation of the feature request: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/160 It's not exactly the "zero configuration" the parent wants, but it's close, and aligned with how some…

comment by WorldMaker · 2019-09-06 · in Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager

> https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/new?assignees=... This isn't something that's really a feature request. It would require changing how the whole entire application works at a fundamental level, or really building 2…

comment by nickjj · 2019-09-06 · in Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager

It's an Open Source project. Send a PR or a feature request: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/new?assignees=...

comment by nailer · 2019-09-06 · in Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager

…want the window in and let the WM do the resizing work. Direct link to PowerToys inc Fancy Zones: https://github.com/Microsoft/powertoys/releases - You probably want to turn on 'On Override Windows Snap hotkeys (win+arrow) to move windows…

comment by nailer · 2019-09-06 · in Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager

…[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/plann... [2] https://github.com/JaneaSystems/powertoys [3]…

comment by gregmac · 2019-09-06 · in PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity

…see and there is some support behind tiling. Vote if you are interested in seeing this in Windows. https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93...

comment by thecrumb · 2019-06-02 · in A Tiling Desktop Environment

…this picture from the article has a number of Windows-/Super- key shortcuts that works already: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/master/WindowsKe...

comment by eitland · 2019-05-07 · in PowerToys – Windows system utilities to maximize productivity