Keyboard shortcuts lets you quickly move windows around, without even touching the mouse.
MaxTo has a long range of built-in keyboard shortcuts, backed by its powerful recipes. In this tutorial we will explain how the default keyboard shortcuts work, and how you can use them most effectively.
Keyboard shortcuts are just recipes
I know we haven't gotten to the recipes chapter yet, but its important to note that all of MaxTo's default keyboard shortcuts are just recipes. This means that you can edit them, and that after an upgrade of MaxTo you may need to export the recipes you want to keep, and then reset your recipes (Restore defaults, For this tab under Settings, Recipes).
Placing windows into regions
MaxTo overrides some of the default Windows shortcuts, specifically the
But although the actual keys your press are the same, what happens when you press them isn't. Here is an overview:
Keyboard shortcut | What it does in MaxTo |
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Move the active window to the closest region to its left. | |
Move the active window to the closest region to its right. | |
Move the active window to the closest region above. | |
Move the active window to the closest region below. |
Windows' default keyboard shortcuts vary what they do based on the state of the window, so on the first press of
Swapping windows
When you use the move keyboard shortcuts above, only the foreground window is affected. If you are in a situation where you need to see all the windows at once, using the swap keyboard shortcuts is more interesting.
Keyboard shortcut | What it does in MaxTo |
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Swap the active window with the windows in the closest region to its left. | |
Swap the active window with the windows in the closest region to its right. | |
Swap the active window with the windows in the closest region above. | |
Swap the active window with the windows in the closest region below. |
Grid placement New in 2.1.0
In the early 2000s, a Windows utility called WinSplit Revolution gained some popularity. WinSplit, as it was known by its fans, laid out a 3x3 grid that mapped to your numpad. Each numpad corresponded to an anchor location around that point on the screen. So, pressing
Repeatedly pressing the same shortcut key would make the window larger (to cover 2/3s of the screen horizontally), then smaller (to cover 1/3 of the screen horizontally).
MaxTo supports this functionality since version 2.1.0, after considerable user feedback. It was also important to us that WinSplit Revolution has been discontinued, and had stopped working for quite a few users due to changes in Windows since it was developed.
Here is a summary of the WinSplit keyboard shortcuts MaxTo supports out of the box:
Anchor: Top left
| Anchor: Top
| Anchor: Top right
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Anchor: Left
| Anchor: Center
| Anchor: Right
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Anchor: Bottom left
| Anchor: Bottom
| Anchor: Bottom right
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Oh, and one more thing
There is one keyboard shortcut that doesn't fit neatly into the above sections. To center a window on your screen quickly, without resizing it, you can press
If you want to create your own keyboard shortcuts, you can do that through the powerful recipes feature. All of the keyboard shortcuts are implemented using recipes, so in addition to letting you easily change the keyboard shortcuts, but you can also add additional actions. See the tutorial on recipes for more details.
What's next
Snapping
Windows become slightly magnetic when you use MaxTo.