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Fancy zone layout as Single alt-tab group #21192

Open LokeshShelva opened 1 year ago

LokeshShelva commented 1 year ago

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Like in the windows 11 alt tab menu, It will be useful if the whole fancy zone layout was given as a single group.

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The whole fancy zone layout could be a single group.

Scenario when this would be used?

I mostly use fancy zone when developing and I frequently alt tab to see documentation and then comeback to the development layout. But it is not convenient if each window in the fancy zone is separate and I have to alt tab multiple times to get back to the layout with every window showing. This is be vey useful for people with a single monitor like myself.

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reidprichard commented 1 year ago

I agree, would be a killer feature! For large groups of windows (e.g., I have a 3x3 setup) it is tedious to bring them to the foreground.

cuesta4 commented 10 months ago

Bump. Is this implemented yet? It's the sole reason I downloaded FancyZones.

quadrotony commented 6 months ago

bump. i badly need this too

cuesta4 commented 6 months ago

Bump.

To anyone waiting, here's a possible work around: remapping the shortcut for a new virtual desktop to Win + D and the shortcuts for going to the previous/next virtual desktop to Win + Left arrow and Win + Right arrow respectively made it possible to keep multiple window layouts. I just alternate between them instead of Alt + Tabbing. It's a bit of a learning curve tho.

LokeshShelva commented 6 months ago

I started doing that too. I usually have 3 virtual desktops, each with different layout for the different projects i am working on. (i work on 2 projects in my job, in case anyone is wondering) and have to juggle between them.

This is not perfect and sometime switching between desktops is not fast. Alt+Tab to a fancyzone group would be a absolutely great.

mcknx commented 3 months ago

Hello I really wanted this feature I hope this gets implemented!

I want to layout my tabs differently and just use shortcut key to access them: WIN + 1: image

WIN + 2: image

I want something like this, I hope someone read this.

kkrav3ts commented 1 week ago

Vote for this feature.