python-windows-tiler

WinSplit Revolution (Free, closed source, abandoned) Can be configured to have shortcuts to place your windows in any position you want. Out-the-box it has numpad shortcuts for a 2x2 or 3x3 grid and you can add as many as you want to it and the keys will cycle through them. You have to download it from cnet because it's not maintained any more and the original website redirects to a paid-for alternative, but it still works for me with Windows 7. http://download.cnet.com/WinSplit-Revolution/3000-2072_4-109... Window Grid (Free, closed source, last build 2016-05-17) Layout windows on a dynamic grid by dragging with the right mouse button. http://windowgrid.net/ PWT - Python Windows Tiler (Open source) can remove the unnecessary parts of the windows, such as scrollbars, menu bar, etc.. http://iradar.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/python-windo

https://github.com/Tzbob/python-windows-tiler It works pretty much like xmonad or awesomewm once you edit the keybindings. Unfortunately it doesn't have the same phenomenal multi-monitor support xmonad provides on linux. It works within the usual windows confines[0]. With xmonad/linux, each workspace is independent of the displays. With pwt/windows, each workspace uses the entire logical display surface. [0]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms6...

Windows does have virtual desktops...just not the way X allows. The main thing that bugs me about Windows's desktops is that it is given a logical display surface compromised of all the display units. Whereas with X (going by my use of xmonad) it's easy to separate the display and desktop abstractions and have desktop 2 on display 1 and desktop 5 on display 2. There's a nice overview of the limitations and intentions of the Windows model here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms68... When on windows, I've been using this (it crashes sometimes, but only itself, never takes other programs with it): https://github.com/Tzbob/python-windows-tiler

I use xmonad when I'm on linux. Now that I'm required to use windows, I use python-windows-tiler[0]. The one thing I sorely miss about xmonad is its multi-monitor support. You get nine workspaces. Each of these is monitor independent. It is trivial to put ws1 on m1 and ws2 on m2, then switch m2 to have ws7. The tiling window managers I've found for ms Windows simply don't have any concept of having workspaces independent of monitors. Every workspace always take up all of your monitors. On linux I'll usually have a browser workspace, an ide workspace, an email/chat workspace, a console workspace, etc. And I'm able to rapidly put any combination of workspaces on my set of monitors. [0]: https://github.com/Tzbob/python-windows-tiler