Has it ever happened in your life, that you finally put your legion of desktop icons onto their positions, sorted them by meaning/color, BUT at the next start, Windows treacherously mixed your icons with quantum wind?
It happened to me. This was the initial reason for the development.
Positioner - will help not only restore the same layout, but also create several snapshots of the desktop, with your settings, and switch between them.
⚠ Positioner is now at the alpha-stage, so exist some nuances.
For example, the next few releases will work in single-threaded mode, in order
to facilitate testing (that is, when executing a command, the GUI will freeze)
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Save/restore icons position
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Attach
snapshotsto quick slots
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Change desktop view(
flags)
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Quick button for hide\show icons
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Restore icons position on OS startup
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Set custom
snapshotname -
Create & use your own transition(the logic by which the icons move from point to point)
Now this feature is available, but only in manual mode (it is not displayed in the GUI).
To create your own transition, modify the filesrc/movement_transitions/default_transition.py.
You can do this before "compiling" or after installation.
You can use Positioner in two ways:
- Install and use as a standalone programm
- Download source code, install dependencies and run as python script
❗ NOTE: If you have too many icons on your desktop, then the transition may not be smooth.
This is a Windows bug (which cannot be bypassed at the Positioner level), however,
this process can be facilitated by turning off the flag responsible for displaying file names.
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Download installer from latest release page
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Run and install
⚠ If installed in Program Files, you will need administrator rights to runPositioner -
Use
Positioner!Optional: Press ⭐ on the github page😉
- Download and install python 3.9+
- Download sorce code from latest release
- Unpack sorce code to some folder, and run here command line
- Install all requirements:
pip install -r requirements.txt
- For start, run:
python main.py