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AppleScript to save and restore window position and sizes.
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-- allSettings is a list of records containing {width:? height:? apps:{{name:? pos:? size:?},...} | |
-- for each display setup store the apps and their associated position and size | |
property allSettings : {} | |
-- create a variable for the current settings | |
set currentSettings to {} | |
display dialog "Restore or save window settings?" buttons {"Restore", "Save"} default button "Restore" | |
set dialogResult to result | |
tell application "Finder" | |
-- use the desktop bounds to determine display config | |
set desktopBounds to bounds of window of desktop | |
set desktopWidth to item 3 of desktopBounds | |
set desktopHeight to item 4 of desktopBounds | |
set desktopResolution to desktopWidth & "x" & desktopHeight | |
-- find the saved settings for the display config | |
repeat with i from 1 to (count of allSettings) | |
if (w of item i of allSettings is desktopWidth) and (h of item i of allSettings is desktopHeight) then | |
set currentSettings to item i of allSettings | |
end if | |
end repeat | |
if (count of currentSettings) is 0 then | |
-- add the current display settings to the stored settings | |
set currentSettings to {w:desktopWidth, h:desktopHeight, apps:{}} | |
set end of allSettings to currentSettings | |
--say "creating new config for " & desktopResolution | |
else | |
--say "found config for " & desktopResolution | |
end if | |
end tell | |
tell application "System Events" | |
if (button returned of dialogResult is "Save") then | |
say "saving" | |
repeat with p in every process | |
if background only of p is false then | |
tell application "System Events" to tell application process (name of p as string) | |
set appName to name of p | |
if (count of windows) > 0 then | |
set appSize to size of window 1 | |
set appPosition to position of window 1 | |
else | |
set appSize to 0 | |
set appPosition to 0 | |
end if | |
set appSettings to {} | |
repeat with i from 1 to (count of apps of currentSettings) | |
if name of item i of apps of currentSettings is name of p then | |
set appSettings to item i of apps of currentSettings | |
end if | |
end repeat | |
if (count of appSettings) is 0 then | |
set appSettings to {name:appName, position:appPosition, size:appSize} | |
set end of apps of currentSettings to appSettings | |
else | |
set position of appSettings to appPosition | |
set size of appSettings to appSize | |
end if | |
end tell | |
end if | |
end repeat | |
end if | |
if (button returned of dialogResult is "Restore") then | |
if (count of apps of currentSettings) is 0 then | |
say "no window settings were found" | |
else | |
say "restoring" | |
repeat with i from 1 to (count of apps of currentSettings) | |
set appSettings to item i of apps of currentSettings | |
set appName to (name of appSettings as string) | |
try | |
tell application "System Events" to tell application process appName | |
if (count of windows) > 0 then | |
set position of window 1 to position of appSettings | |
set size of window 1 to size of appSettings | |
end if | |
end tell | |
end try | |
end repeat | |
end if | |
end if | |
end tell | |
I haven't used that in many years. I currently use the Moom app to keep track of window positions. Good luck with it.
It's 2024 and I'm running Sonoma and this script is working fine! Thank you for sharing it.
Glad to hear it still works and is helpful! 😊
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Is this working for you still? I see some forks, but sometimes it returns that there are no settings found after trying to restore. I'm not sure if it's related to the OS version maybe since this is an older set of code. If you are still using it on a modern OS version I'll keep trying to figure it out.