Window Management

Sliprail adds predictable keyboard shortcuts for arranging and controlling the foreground window on Windows and macOS. To find and move between open windows from the launcher, see Window Switching.

How to Enable

Window management is disabled by default. Open Sliprail Settings and enable Manage windows with Sliprail.

Additional platform-specific switches are available:

• Windows - Close the foreground window with the selected modifier plus Q
• Windows - Minimize the foreground window with the selected modifier plus M
• macOS - Use Command + M to hide the current app instead of minimizing its window

Windows Shortcuts

On Windows, window management uses the same modifier selected for the launcher hotkey. The default modifier is Win. If you change the launcher modifier to Alt or Ctrl, these shortcuts use that modifier too.

• Modifier + Left/Right Arrow - Snap the foreground window to the left or right half of the screen
• Modifier + Up Arrow - Maximize the foreground window
• Modifier + Q - Close the foreground window when the separate close-window switch is enabled
• Modifier + M - Minimize the foreground window when the separate minimize-window switch is enabled

macOS Shortcuts

The macOS window management shortcuts always use Command, independently of the launcher hotkey.

• Command + Left/Right Arrow - Snap the foreground window to the left or right half of the screen
• Command + Up Arrow - Maximize the foreground window
• Command + M - When the optional setting is enabled, hide the current app instead of minimizing its window

These shortcuts are global, so enable only the combinations that fit your workflow and do not conflict with other applications.

Cycling between displays

After enabling Manage windows with Sliprail, Cycle window positions appears below it and is on by default. Turn it off to snap windows only to the corresponding half of their current display, keeping them in place when you repeat the same direction. When it is on, the following movement rules apply.

If a window is not already snapped to half the screen, the left or right shortcut first places it on the corresponding half of its current display.

For a half-screen window, pressing the opposite direction switches to the other half of the same display. Pressing left while on the left half moves it to the previous display's right half. Pressing right while on the right half moves it to the next display's left half. At either end, movement wraps around to the other end.

For example, when a window occupies the left half of the leftmost display, pressing Win + Left Arrow again moves it to the right half of the rightmost display. Further presses move it to that display's left half, then to the previous display's right half, and eventually back to the starting position. The right shortcut follows the reverse order.

With one display, repeating either shortcut alternates between the left and right halves. Displays are ordered from left to right in the system layout, then from top to bottom when their horizontal positions match. Windows resize to the target display's work area, leaving room for the taskbar, menu bar, and Dock.

The same cycling rules apply to Command + Left/Right Arrow on macOS.