Add a YAML config based configuration path. Adds alternative bindings for corner functions, max-height function and make larger/smaller #11

phoeagon · 2025-08-31T08:09:51Z

Enhance rectangleWin to have the following features:

default corner key binding with ctrl-alt-U|I|J|K.
ctrl-alt-shift-UP: make the current window take the full height of screen.
ctrl-alt-+ make current window larger.
ctrl-alt-- make current window smaller.
All these bindings are the same as default rectangle on Mac when used with a Windows keyboard.

add ctrl-alt-[U I J K] as the hot key to resize to 4 corners, cycling between 1/2, 1/3 and 2/3. It's similar to the setup of ctrl-win-alt-up|down|left|right, except that this is more aligned with default rectangle key bindings on mac w/ a windows keyboard.

add doc on ctrl-alt-u|i|j|k

add a few more hotkeys

phoeagon · 2025-09-02T06:41:47Z

Adds a yaml based config workflow.
Minor changes to main.go to ensure console outputs are preserved as well.

create a release workflow

attempt to use go build cache v4

set up to use actions/setup-go@v4

switch new ways to set cache paths in ci.yml

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…elease workflow

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ahmetb · 2025-09-07T03:34:05Z

These are all good but I think we should try to split into smaller PRs so I can adequately review.

Also it might be good to send a proposal issue first so we can discuss. What do you think?

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ahmetb · 2025-09-09T05:16:34Z

Any interest in splitting the PR?

phoeagon · 2025-09-09T05:39:04Z

Sure! Please let me know how you would like the change structured. There are a few generally orthogonal things:

config yaml
additional functions (maxheight, etc)
fixing github workflows, etc.
I've opened an FR... (oh I see you mean open a PR not FR).
do you have a strong opinion on each of these?
Thanks!

phoeagon · 2025-09-09T06:05:35Z

Created 2 separate FRs.
Please let me know if you would like to have the maxheight, etc, features added without the configuration feature. That would require a bit of rewriting and reverting on my end to reproduce the results.
Thanks!

ahmetb

this is fantastic work, thank you. i'm really excited about the prospects.

ahmetb · 2025-09-21T22:51:51Z

README.md

  - Press multiple times to alternate between ½, ⅔ and ⅓.

 - **Corner snapping**
  - <kbd>Win</kbd> + <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Alt</kbd> + <kbd>&larr;</kbd>: top-left ½, ⅔ and ⅓


Something i've been imagining is that we allow users to configure:

steps: [0.33, 0.5, 0.66, 1]

great idea! I think this may take a bit more work on conf though and is conceptually quite independent from the main hotkey assignment part. do you mind if we track this separate?
Thanks!

ahmetb · 2025-09-21T22:52:20Z

README.md

+  The following are also available if you use the attached `config.yaml`:
+  - <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Alt</kbd> + <kbd>U</kbd>: top-left ½, ⅔ and ⅓
+  - <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Alt</kbd> + <kbd>I</kbd>: top-right ½, ⅔ and ⅓
+  - <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Alt</kbd> + <kbd>J</kbd>: bottom-left ½, ⅔ and ⅓
+  - <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Alt</kbd> + <kbd>K</kbd>: bottom-right ½, ⅔ and ⅓


we can probably elide this section and move it down below to the sample config.
it's rather random to have other bindings when you have a file present on disk (the file should override the defaults)

ahmetb · 2025-09-21T22:55:07Z

README.md


+## Configuration
+
+Configuration could be achieved by changing `config.yaml` in the same folder.


I think some major things I always wanted to do:

the path to config file is something well known, like %HOME%/.config/rectanglewin/config.yaml

the program should create the default config file if it's missing (we can have a nice config file with inline comments etc).

the tray icon has an item called "Preferences" that launches a notepad.exe with the config file.

Stretch goal: I suspect we'll add new configs over time --we gotta find a way to update the config file with the "new" defaults the program ships with.

done. Updated the files (please see #14) to:

automatically drop this config.yaml if missing at %HOME%/.config/RectangleWin/config.yaml

load from aforementioned path

Add an option to load notepad.exe on that file

I think it may take more work to add a "reload" option in the context menu, due to this process registering hotkeys, which must happen after parent process quits, introducing needs for additional interprocess synchronization.

ahmetb · 2025-09-21T22:56:08Z

config.yaml

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+keybindings:


nit: if this is the default, let's call it config.default.yaml + add comments?

we can also use //go:embed to add this file into the binary so the binary auto-installs this file to the disk.

done. "embed" is a great idea!

…onfig/RectangleWin/config.yaml if missing, instad of the current folder

…aveat of this is that there's no simple way to reload after changing and saving it in notepad.exe, due to the need for a more complex synchronization for this reload

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phoeagon · 2025-09-22T04:08:23Z

@ahmetb I've moved this to #14 which might be cleaner, especially for github workflows that might not be easy to integrate back. (Please feel free to close this one and use #14 for review) (for clarity, I'm responding to the comments here as well)

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phoeagon added 11 commits August 30, 2025 23:35

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phoeagon changed the title ~~Adds alternative bindings for corner functions, max-height function and make larger/smaller~~ Add a YAML config based configuration path. Adds alternative bindings for corner functions, max-height function and make larger/smaller Sep 2, 2025

phoeagon added 15 commits September 6, 2025 17:14

Create go.yml

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create a release workflow

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attempt to use go build cache v4

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set up to use actions/setup-go@v4

Update ci.yml: switch new ways to set cache paths in ci.yml

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switch new ways to set cache paths in ci.yml

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update README: explains a few more hotkeys

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phoeagon mentioned this pull request Sep 22, 2025

Create a YAML based configuration to customize key binding #14

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phoeagon added 4 commits September 21, 2025 20:57

updates RectangleWin to automatically emit a config yaml at %HOME%/.c…

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		## Configuration

		Configuration could be achieved by changing `config.yaml` in the same folder.

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