Question re. window management triggered by shortcuts

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Hi.

First time poster :slight_smile:

I would love to be able to setup my windows on my screen something like this:

|Safari 60% | OmniFocus 20% | Safari (time tracking) 20% |

I’ve looked at keyboard maestro but I am not sure if it can add windows next to each other like that or if I’m limited to placing windows at the edges.

Second thing is that I really would love to be able to trigger the setup via a shortcut.

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Any suggestions and advice are highly appreciated!

-Daniel

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You can do that in Keyboard Maestro, but maybe it is worth checking out an app like Moom? It kaes stuff like this quick and easy, whereas Keyboard Maestro requires a bit more configuration.

It has AppleScript support for triggering window layouts, and you can trigger AppleScript from Shortcuts.

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I’ve downloaded Keyboard Maestro and can see a lot of uses for that as well (helped along by @MacSparky).

So this might be a stupid question, but if I use Moom to set the windows, and ad a keyboard shortcut to that, Keyboard maestro should be able to enter that keyboard shortcut and I should be able to run a shortcut for that right? (Or am I making things too complicated here?)

-D

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Okay, I assumed by shortcut you meant a Shortcuts shortcut rather than a keyboard shortcut. Apple perpetuated the overloading of names switching from “Workflow” to “Shortcuts”.

  • If you just want a keyboard shortcut, you can set one in Moom and not use any other apps.
  • If you want to call a Moom profile from within a Keyboard Maestro macro that is doing other things, you could do this by sending a key press associate with the profile, or by using a bit of AppleScript to call it.
  • If you want to call this from a Shortcuts shortcut, you could once again use some AppleScript to trigger the Moom profile.
  • You can do this in Keyboard Maestro alone, but the configuration is more effort. You can associate a keyboard shortcut with that, and you could call it from a Shortcuts shortcut via a URL call, or once again, via some AppleScript.

Does that cover all the bases?