microsoft / microsoft/PowerToys
Enhancement request: Grab and Move feature need to notify system of move/resize event at the start and end
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Description
Description of the new feature / enhancement
Enhance the Grab and Move functionality to explicitly broadcast system move/resize events. This ensures compability with standard Windows behavior similar to RamonUnch/AltSnap#564. This help PowerToys becomes compatible with third-party window managers like komorebi, which rely on these hooks to track window states.
Scenario when this would be used?
Without these signals, a tiling window manager (like komorebi, glazewm) is unaware that a window is being moved by PowerToys, making the TWM fail to update its internal layout, or result in "ghost" window positions.
Follow from LGUG2Z/komorebi#1703
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Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the Grab and Move implementation and the existing Windows move/resize event handling. Use the linked komorebi and AltSnap references to understand the expected behavior, then verify that system notifications are emitted at both the start and end of a move or resize and that window managers can track the resulting state.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- desktop, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100