Remember / Restore window position when reconnecting a monitor

[jcoutch]

Summary of the new feature/enhancement

As a developer with 5 monitors, whenever I have to go to a meeting which requires my laptop, I usually have to spend a couple minutes minimizing windows once un-docked, then 3-5 minutes re-positioning/resizing a bazillion windows back onto my multiple monitors.

It would be awesome to have a PowerToy that at least attempted to keep my layout between dock cycles, maybe integrated into the virtual desktops feature in Windows 10

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

Whenever a graphics/monitor hardware event occurs, and before Windows re-positions all windows, take a snapshot of the monitor layout, all main window handles and their current positions.

Then, check if the new layout/monitor configuration matches to any previous snapshots, and align the windows accordingly.

The initial version could just go off window handles, but maybe future versions could allow users to specify regular expressions for window titles/tab names (in the event windows are closed then re-opened.)

[LazerFX]

An alternative (And nice-to-have) addition to this feature would be to have a key command that would allow you to manually save/reload window layouts. Again, similar to the request above, it would be a case of saving the window titles/names or window handles, and then restoring them into position at a single keystroke. This would need to be multi-desktop, multi-window aware.

[MikeWilliams-UK]

The feature #557 I suggested could be made part of this if/when implemented

[Enchiridion]

jcoutch I have a similar issue, and I've been using this program to do my window management

http://www.stefandidak.com/windows-layout-manager/

It hasn't been updated in a while but still works great.

[enricogior]

Changed title to make it simpler to search for the issue.