PanelPulley

A utility for resizing specific windows from the terminal on macOS

Install

The tool can be installed in the following ways. It is not supported on Homebrew.

• Download from Release
• Build it

Usage

The tool has two subcommands. Please pass the window ID obtained by the list command to the resize command and specify the size and position.

• list sub command - Lists the windows of the App.
• resize sub command - Changes the size(width/height) and display position(xAxis/yAxis(0 is at the top, and as the value increases, it becomes the bottom)) of the specified window.

When you run the list subcommand, it is displayed as follows.

$ pp list
    88 Terminal                       [w=1814,h= 558,x= 190,y= 330] PanelPulley — -zsh — 164×21
 23467 Xcode                          [w=1021,h= 746,x=   6,y=  25] PanelPulley — List.swift — Edited
 36645 CLion                          [w=1884,h=1967,x=1920,y=  25] PanelPulley – List.swift
 39042 Google Chrome                  [w=1919,h=1102,x=   0,y=  25] mike-neck/PanelPulley: MacOS でターミナルからウィンドウを指定してサイズを変更するユーティリティ

The number appearing on the far left is the identifier for the window. Specify this with the resize sub command and manipulate the size and position.

$ pp resize \
     --target-window 23467 \
     --width 1920 \
     --height 1080 \
     --xAxis 0 \
     --yAxis 25

For resize subcommand options, refer to the options displayed by pp help resize.

Build

Builds are performed using make. swift, swiftc and swift-format are required for the build.

The tool can be built with the following command.

$ make build

The created binary will be in the build/release directory.

Limitations

• It has been confirmed that the resize command cannot be executed in Google Chrome.