DDM, hotkeys for snapping windows

Question

I use Dell Display Manager on Windows 10. I was wondering if there is a way to use a keyboard shortcut for moving a window between snap zones, similar to what Windows does natively with Win+Left and Win+Right.

If there is not currently a way to do this, I would really appreciate one, as I love DDM but miss being able to move windows around with the keyboard.

By the way, thanks for creating and maintaining this product. It's a must-have with super-wide displays.

swamped207 · Accepted Answer

2 possibilities: if you go to the Options page/tab in DDM, you'll find an "Application window shortcut key" - define and trigger this inside a window and you'll get a popup menu with options to move the window to a number of positions.

If that is more keystrokes than you'd like, you can use the otherwise undocumented DDM Hotkey Manager to enable specific numbered hotkeys to move a window to the next (#19) or previous (#20) cell in a EA partitioned layout. Note that DDM won't let you use Win+Anything since these are reserved for Microsoft.

swamped207 · Accepted Answer

The functions available for assignment to hotkeys are numbered.

#0 thru #15 are user defined.

#16 thru #21 are predefined.

You will want to assign hotkeys to functions #19 and #20.

Be sure to restart DDM after making any changes using the Hotkey Manager.

EricAsh · Answer

Thanks for your answer. It sounds like the Hotkey Manager will work just fine for my purposes. However, I'm a bit unclear on what I should do with the numbers you provided. Do I simply put "19" in the "DDM command-line parameters" field? Or it is supposed to be combined with a command? I looked at ddm's readme.txt and didn't see anything that looked like it fit.

Thanks,
Eric

EricAsh · Answer

Thanks for the additional explanation. Works perfectly!

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