Cascade Windows with keyboard combo

[wolfgangalejandro]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Press a customizable key combination to cascade all visible windows without the need to move your hands away from the keyboard.

Scenario when this would be used?

When having multiple visible windows over the Desktop, the fastest way to organize all of them at once is simply pressing two or three keys.

FancyZones is best suited for commonly used programs and Snap Windows is comfortable to use, but these solutions still require some use of the mouse. Having a mouse-free workflow would be highly appreciated especially when some tasks require your whole focus when coding, writting business emails, analysing data, and the like.

Supporting information

1. "...I regularly use it over ssh to code on remote servers and I feel quite productive while hardly touching the mouse..."

Having A Look. (2022) keyboard - Is there a way to code without a mouse? - Super User. Retrieved January 20, 2022, from https://superuser.com/questions/1231666/is-there-a-way-to-code-without-a-mouse

2. "Many users find that using an external keyboard with keyboard shortcuts for Excel helps them work more efficiently. For users with mobility or vision disabilities, keyboard shortcuts can be easier than using the touchscreen, and are an essential alternative to using a mouse."

One Cell. (2022) Keyboard shortcuts in Excel. Retrieved January 20, 2022, from https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/keyboard-shortcuts-in-excel-1798d9d5-842a-42b8-9c99-9b7213f0040f

3. "By the end of my week without a mouse, many of the shortcuts were already beginning to feel like second nature. I found that they saved me a ton of time, especially on tedious tasks like deleting emails. Indeed, one shortcut evangelist suggests that switching to keyboard shortcuts in Gmail saved him as much as 60 hours per year."

Default. (2022) 'I Stopped Using a Computer Mouse For a Week and It Was Amazing' - Slashdot. Retrieved January 20, 2022, from https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/19/01/25/006216/i-stopped-using-a-computer-mouse-for-a-week-and-it-was-amazing

[Untersander]

Just curious. What's your reason for the windows to be cascaded instead of being in the same zone, which you can switch through with FancyZones customizable keyboard shortcut for Window switching?

[wolfgangalejandro]

Hi Untersander, I hoped for an embedded solution to organize windows and avoid running more programs in the background.

Used to just cascade everything for the longest time but now I prefer the PowerToys Fancy Zones way instead, it's not perfect but it's certainly a way better solution.

Thanks for your reply.

Wolfgang Alejandro

Ingeniería en Sistemas Computacionales Wolfgang Alejandro Garnica 010382486 (999) 386-6304

[Untersander]

Hi Wolfgang, Thanks for the explanation.