Hello folks,

I'm trying to create a hotkey to automatically position the window on a specific location (top-left, bottom-right, etc) and resize to a specific size in pixels. It works fine with all windows - except command line windows like Putty and Command Prompt.

I found this archived discussion http://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/positioning-of-putty-window-in-bottom-right-corner-doesn-t-work/?ID=6c61a935-678e-4602-ae32-37d1b7908486 and the Changelog indicates it was fixed on 3.1.5 released in 2009, yet it still doesn't work for me (I'm on 3.4.1). Not sure if it was working on earlier versions; that's my next test if everything else fails.

Any ideas how to fix it? Hotkey config screenshot below. It is running on a dual-mon Win7 64bits.
http://imgur.com/riX6Z

thanks in advance!

Yeah, I was able to position the window too, the problem was just with the resize. I'm only interested in resizing Putty (the Command Prompt was just a test) so if there's a way to fix Putty it'd be perfect.

Putty allows the user to drag the window to resize, so I imagine you can simulate sending events to the window (SetWindowPos?) to have it change its dimensions? Just a guess.. Putty has to also resize the remote terminal, so I imagine that's what it makes it unique.

Anyway, I'd be more than happy to help in any way - testing a beta version or sending debug info or anything. Thanks a lot!

SetConsoleWindowInfo() ?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms686125%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-us/Vsexpressvc/thread/7EB84377-10E8-4AC4-889A-33CE6BDAA185

Might need to AttachConsole() first, if it's possible.

Command prompts can be easily resized and modified, even without any injection.

Just click on the small process icon next to the window title ( the black "C:\_" icon ), click on "default values" and feel free to modify the layout and color scheme. I modified it to let me command prompt look like this:



I'm also using PuTTy, but not the default PuTTy - instead I'm using PuTTy tray, which also allows some minor modifications to the UI and also supports minimizing to tray by CTRL-Click on the minimize button.

It may be not the optimal solution until DF implements some new logics for console windows, but it may be a temporary workaround for you.

Worked for me on Command Prompt (vertically as you said; not horizontally). But sadly it still doesn't work with Putty windows..

Another confirmation of non-workingness and request for workingness of PuTTY resize when using "Size and Move Window to Right/Left Side of Monitor" with 4.0.1b3

Hmm, interesting. It works fine with Putty, both setposition as well as resize. But on ExtraPutty (a fork of Putty) just the setposition works, but it doesn't resize the window.

Not sure what is different; seems they changed something that is not allowing DisplayFusion to change the window dimensions...

4.1.0 beta 4
Updated from PuTTy 0.60 to 0.62 today and it seems to working now, however CMD has stopped working with the latest DF beta.

yay, ExtraPutty now resizing and moving windows perfectly. Thank you so much guys!

Hi,

I'm glad to see that you've worked out several software for resizing issues, and I wanted to update you that with the latest v5.0 release, on http://sourceforge.net/projects/console, I can't Resize nor Move from screen to screen using the keyboard shortcuts I use..

Can you perhaps look at this as well?

FireCMD shell makes re-sizing any command line apps like cmd.exe, powershell, telnet, putty, bash shell etc. so simple like any other GUI application. It also provides a full-screen mode.