Meet Randy

A Windows 11 application that only has one purpose: near-maximising (maximise minus padding) the active window using a hotkey. 😀 By default, the padding is 30 px, but it can be configured in the settings.

Hit Win + \ to use the hotkey. On an ISO keyboard, this requires only one hand and is next to Win + Z which is a default Windows hotkey to create window groups.

The application is written in C#, using .NET 8 and WinForms. The latter may be an awful framework but was the fastest way to get this done.

Installation

1. Clone the repo and run dotnet restore
2. Run dotnet publish -c Release -r win-x64 --self-contained
3. You can then find Randy.exe in: randy\Randy\bin\Release\net8.0-windows\win-x64\publish
4. Move the content of the publish folder to a location of your choice
5. Run Randy.exe (as an administrator) and select Start with Windows

Demo

Notes

• The application auto-minimises to the system tray and is not visible when using Alt + Tab
• The application can start with Windows by attempting to 1) schedule a task with the Task Scheduler, 2) adding a shortcut to the Startup folder, and 3) adding a registry entry to the Run key
• Tray icon context menu changes based on the state of the application
• Logs from the current/most recent session are saved to console-log.txt in the same directory as the executable
• Pressing the hotkey again will restore the window size to its previous state