reidjs Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 Hello My name's Reid, I work as a software developer. I love alfred and bought the powerpack a long time ago. After work, I close all of my work applications. It's a pain to have to re-open everything the next day. I was wondering how to get started building a script to set my desktop automatically. Here's my preferred setup: Monitor #1: 1) Full Screen iTerm split horizontally with 2 panes pointed to 2 directories 2) Full Screen VSCode project 3) desktop (no applications open) 4) Full Screen VSCode project 5) Full Screen iTerm split 4 panes, pointed to 2 directories, with 2 scripts running 6) Full Screen VSCode project 7) Full Screen database application Monitor #2 (if available): 1) VSCode (not full screen, just open) 2) Google Chrome (not full screen, just open) Any tips, feedback, or links to tutorials are appreciated. Thank you! Link to comment
Pearcen Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 I do this with Alfred and Moom working together. Alfred kicks off all the apps that I need using Launch Apps action in the workflow, then a delay to make sure they've all started and then runs a global keyboard shortcut which runs a Moom window placement setting that puts the opened apps into the right place. dfay 1 Link to comment
dfay Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 (edited) i’ve used exactly the same approach for a while: Edited July 13, 2021 by dfay Pearcen 1 Link to comment
Martin Packer Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 Sounds like a job for Brett Terpstra's Bunch. Link to comment
iApple Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 4 hours ago, Pearcen said: I do this with Alfred and Moom working together. Alfred kicks off all the apps that I need using Launch Apps action in the workflow, then a delay to make sure they've all started and then runs a global keyboard shortcut which runs a Moom window placement setting that puts the opened apps into the right place. Hi. Does this work on Big Sur? Can you please post a link to workflow? Thanks Link to comment
reidjs Posted July 13, 2021 Author Share Posted July 13, 2021 19 hours ago, Pearcen said: I do this with Alfred and Moom working together. Alfred kicks off all the apps that I need using Launch Apps action in the workflow, then a delay to make sure they've all started and then runs a global keyboard shortcut which runs a Moom window placement setting that puts the opened apps into the right place. Wow thank you! I will give this a shot. Pearcen 1 Link to comment
reidjs Posted July 13, 2021 Author Share Posted July 13, 2021 (edited) I will take a look at this, https://bunchapp.co/download/ as well edit: unfortunately bunch does not support window management at this time https://bunchapp.co/docs/bunch-files/window-management/ Edited July 13, 2021 by reidjs Link to comment
dfay Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 Really Moom is the best for that aspect. I haven’t really looked at Bunch but you could always have it call Moom at the end. Link to comment
Pearcen Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 On 7/13/2021 at 3:43 PM, iApple said: Hi. Does this work on Big Sur? Can you please post a link to workflow? Thanks @iapple It's a great workflow to try and build yourself if you have never tried before as so few moving parts, but I've done an export and put it here : https://github.com/pearcenuk/Alfred-public Hope it works. Link to comment
iApple Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 @Pearcen, thanks will give it a try. ^⌥⌘W is your shortcut for a specific Moom layout? Pearcen 1 Link to comment
Pearcen Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 12 hours ago, iApple said: @Pearcen, thanks will give it a try. ^⌥⌘W is your shortcut for a specific Moom layout? Yeah the second screenshot on my original post is from Moom. I saved a layout and gave it that shortcut. Obvs you can use whatever one you like and update the workflow to use your preferred hotkeys. Good luck Link to comment
iApple Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 58 minutes ago, Pearcen said: Yeah the second screenshot on my original post is from Moom. I saved a layout and gave it that shortcut. Obvs you can use whatever one you like and update the workflow to use your preferred hotkeys. Good luck Thanks @Pearcen. I've modified it work with my setup. Pity workflow below doesn't work on Big Sur. It lists all layouts in Moom setup so can pick & choose which one to launch. 2nd portion works which is essentially @dfayscript but the 1st portion of getting list from Moom only works on Catalina. Pearcen 1 Link to comment
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