Quick Window Settings Dialog

Available in: Actual Window Manager, Actual Title Buttons, Actual Window Menu.

The Quick Window Settings dialog is a usability tool purposed mostly for mouse fans. Here you can quickly adjust both basic and advanced characteristics of a single window (such as position, size, transparency, caption text, caption icon, always-on-top state, etc.) in an integrated vivid manner. Just a single click required to change the desired characteristic, and all changes are applied immediately so you get instant visual feedback for your actions.

There are two large groups of controls in this dialog - Placement and Advanced Properties.

Placement

The Placement group of controls allows the quick and flexible adjustment of such primary window properties as position and size. Also it includes the possibility to choose the host monitor (if you have a multi-monitor system) and the possibility to choose the host virtual desktop (if you use the Virtual Desktops facility):

• Alignment toolbar allows quickly snapping a window to a certain edge (left/right/top/bottom) or corner (top-left,top-right,bottom-left,bottom-right) of the screen, or centering a window within the screen.

• Stretch toolbar allows you quickly enlarge the window in 8 pre-defined directions with the help of Stretch action. The middle button stretches the window over the whole desktop (in case of multiple displays - over all available displays).

• Left/Top edit boxes allow the precise adjustment of window position by specifying the exact values (in pixels) for its top-left corner.

• Width/Height edit boxes allow the precise adjustment of window size by specifying the exact values (in pixels) for its width/height.

• Size list displays the top ten of pre-defined window sizes which you can apply to a window in a single click.

• Monitor list displays the list of connected monitors and highlights the item which represents window's host monitor (the monitor window currently resides on). Simply click the monitor name in this list to place window on that monitor.

  Note
  This feature is available in the multi-monitor systems only.

• Virtual desktop list displays the list of currently available virtual desktops and highlights the item which represents window's host virtual desktop (the virtual desktop window currently resides on). Simply click the virtual desktop name in this list to place window on that desktop.

  Note
  This feature is available only when the Virtual Desktops facility is enabled.

Advanced Properties

The Advanced Properties group of controls allows you easily tweak hidden but useful window attributes (such as transparency level, ghost state, always-on-top state, etc.) and apply some advanced Actual Window Manager actions (such as Roll up, Pin to Desktop, Change Caption/Icon/Priority/Affinity, etc.):

• Advanced Properties toolbar allows toggling various advanced window states, such as Stay always-on-top, Ghost, as well as invoke advanced actions like Roll up, Send to bottom, Pin to desktop.

• Transparency group provides you the controls to change window's transparency level. Drag the slider with the mouse to set an appropriate transparency or specify the exact value in the related edit box.

• Icon button lets you replace the default window icon.

  Note
  This feature is available only if the target window was not excluded (i.e. some settings were applied to it).

• Caption edit box lets you modify the default window caption text.

• Program execution priority combo box shows the current execution priority of window's application and lets you adjust it as circumstances require.

• Program CPU affinity button opens the special dialog window allowing you modify the CPU affinity of window's application.

  

  Note
  This feature is available only on multi-processor systems or systems with multi-core CPUs or CPUs with HyperThreading™ feature.

• Window state combo box shows the current window's run mode.

Possible triggers: Standard Window Part Click, Hotkeys, Window Menu.