A bash script to move the focused window in X to different parts of the screen. Most useful when you assign shortcut keys to the various options, e.g. assign '<Super>Up' to run 'swind up'

swind

#!/bin/bash

# Written by Andrew McDonough
# Prerequisites: xdotool must be installed and in your path (http://tinyurl.com/xdotool)
# A simple bash script that uses xdotool to move the window that is currently in focus to different parts of the screen.
# Particularly useful for reading web pages with flexible layouts on wide monitors.
# Assign the various options to keyboard shortcuts e.g. '<Super>Left' assigned to 'swind left'
# See http://tinyurl.com/ubuntukeys for help with assigning keyboard shortcuts.


# Change the following to suit your own monitor's resolution.  Mine is 1920x1200
width=1920
height=1200

winid=`xdotool getwindowfocus`

case "$1" in
'')
  echo "Usage: swind <left|right|top|bottom|top-left|top-right|bottom-left|bottom-right>"
;;  
'left')
  xdotool windowmove $winid 0 0
  xdotool windowsize $winid $(( $width/2 )) $height
;;
'right')
  xdotool windowmove $winid $(( $width/2))  0
  xdotool windowsize $winid $(( $width/2)) $height
;;
'top')
  xdotool windowmove $winid 0 0
  xdotool windowsize $winid $width $(( $height/2 ))
;;
'bottom')
  xdotool windowmove $winid 0 $(( $height/2 ))
  xdotool windowsize $winid $width $(( $height/2 ))
;;
'top-left')
  xdotool windowmove $winid 0 0
  xdotool windowsize $winid $(( $width/2 )) $(( $height/2))
;;
'top-right')
  xdotool windowmove $winid $(( $width/2))  0
  xdotool windowsize $winid $(( $width/2 )) $(( $height/2 ))
;;
'bottom-left')
  xdotool windowmove $winid 0 $(( $width/2 ))
  xdotool windowsize $winid $(( $width/2 )) $(( $height/2 ))
;;
'bottom-right')
  xdotool windowmove $winid $(( $width/2))  $(( $height/2 ))
  xdotool windowsize $winid $(( $width/2 )) $(( $height/2 ))
;;
esac

Thanks for this nice little wrapper around xdotool to make some convenient window moves. I found it useful. I made a quick fork with a couple additions:

• Added fetching display geometry dynamic
• Added window search feature to allow moving another named window, e.g.
  • swind right --name right-window
• Resized before move seemed to work more reliably in my WM setup.

https://gist.github.com/bdowling/ad87c58362af7c28806bb2292436222d