Watch the introduction on YouTube:
- ⚔️ Moves makes it easier than ever to position your windows juuust right.
- ✨ Hold down your chosen modifier keys and move the mouse. No need to fiddle with 3px wide window edges or far away title bars.
- ⚡️ Moves lives in your menubar and is very light weight. The only thing it does, it does well.
Moves supports the following URL schemes for window positioning:
moves://template/{template-name}
Apply a predefined window template to the active window.
| Category | Templates |
|---|---|
| Full screen | toggle-fullscreen, maximize, maximize-height (keeps x position), maximize-width (keeps y position) |
| Half screen | left-half, right-half, top-half, bottom-half |
| Center & Movement | center, move-up, move-down, move-left, move-right, restore, reasonable-size |
| Display management | previous-display, next-display |
| Thirds | first-third, first-two-thirds, center-third, last-two-thirds, last-third |
| Fourths | first-fourth, second-fourth, third-fourth, last-fourth |
| Quarters (corners) | top-left-quarter, top-right-quarter, bottom-left-quarter, bottom-right-quarter |
| Sixths | top-left-sixth, top-center-sixth, top-right-sixth, bottom-left-sixth, bottom-center-sixth, bottom-right-sixth |
Example:
open moves://template/left-halfmoves://custom/{position}?parameters
Position the active window with custom settings.
| Position | Description |
|---|---|
center |
Center of screen |
centerRight |
Middle of right edge |
centerLeft |
Middle of left edge |
topRight |
Top right corner |
topLeft |
Top left corner |
bottomRight |
Bottom right corner |
bottomLeft |
Bottom left corner |
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
absoluteWidth |
Number | Window width in pixels |
absoluteHeight |
Number | Window height in pixels |
relativeWidth |
Float (0-1) | Window width as ratio of screen width |
relativeHeight |
Float (0-1) | Window height as ratio of screen height |
absoluteXOffset |
Number | X position offset in pixels |
absoluteYOffset |
Number | Y position offset in pixels |
relativeXOffset |
Float | X position offset as ratio of screen width |
relativeYOffset |
Float | Y position offset as ratio of screen height |
Example:
open "moves://custom/center?relativeWidth=0.75&relativeHeight=0.75"MIT
