ahkscripts

I press my i3 shortcuts too often on my Windows machines without a result. That's the one of the reasons I made this repo.

Prerequisites

• AutoHotkey
  • Version: any v2 version

What each file does

desktop.ahk

This uses Ciantic/VirtualDesktopAccessor, a DLL from where you can access Windows Desktop functions. I just put an already built ./VirtualDesktopAccessor.dll in this repository, but you free to build one yourself.

I will refer to n as the desktop number, which is limited to 9 in my script because the hotkeys are dynamically created for the number of available desktops (on startup and on addition/removal of desktops) and I can only create shortcuts for 1-9 automatically (key 1 to key 9).

• Win + n to switch between desktop
• Win + Shift + n to move a window to a desktop
• Win + Alt + n to move a window to a desktop and also switch to the desktop

Additionally, it can restart the explorer with Win + Shift + r and can rotate your main display:

• Win + F1 for a normal horizontal display
• Win + F2 to rotate 90° degrees counterclockwise (normal vertical display)
• Win + F3 to rotate 180° degrees counterclockwise (flipped horizontal display)
• Win + F4 to rotate 270° degrees counterclockwise (flipped vertical display)

You can also send a message from other AutoHotkey scripts, like this:

desktop := WinExist("desktop.ahk ahk_class AutoHotkey")
PostMessage(0x5555, 0, 1, , "ahk_id " . desktop) ; 0 is to send a change desktop request, 1 is to change it the 2nd desktop (index starts at 0)

shortcuts.ah2

This is a script to launch shortcuts configured through a JSON file. You can put folders you want to open, Batch/Powershell/Autohotkey scripts to launch and also put them into submenus.

Because of Windows-version specific limitations, some features may not be available. (described after this)

Windows 10

You can use this script to define a list of shortcuts which can open one folder in explorer or start a AutoHotkey script (path has to end with .ahk or .ah2).

Path for JSON: YOUR-HOME\shortcuts\shortcuts.json

Example JSON:

{
  "shortcuts": {
    "work": "C:\\work",
    "temp": "C:\\Temp",
    "my-script-ah2": "C:\\scripts\\hello-world.ah2",
    "my-script-ahk": "C:\\scripts\\hello-world.ahk",
    "submenu": {
      "home": "C:\\Users\\user",
      "goingDown": {
        "wow": "C:\\"
      }
    }
  }
}

For Windows 11 only

This script can open an W11 explorer with multiple tabs through a JSON configuration in your user folder (scripts look in the environment variables USERPROFILE and HOME in order).

Path for JSON: YOUR-HOME\shortcuts\shortcuts.json

Example JSON:

{
  "shortcuts": {
    "work": [
      "C:\\work",
      "C:\\Users\\user\\another-work-folder"
    ],
    "temp": "C:\\Temp",
    "my-script-ah2": "C:\\scripts\\hello-world.ah2",
    "my-script-ahk": "C:\\scripts\\hello-world.ahk",
    "submenu": {
      "home": "C:\\Users\\user",
      "goingDown": {
        "wow": "C:\\"
      }
    }
  }
}

i3help.ahk

It has the general shortcuts that I use like media control, focusing windows, setting windows to be always-on-top.

• Ctrl + Alt + p - play/pause
• Ctrl + Alt + Left/Right & Ctrl + AltGr + Left/Right - previous/next song
• Win + q & Win + Shift + q - close active window (sends Alt + F4)
• Win + Shift + p - trigger Windows power menu
• Win + x - open AHK WindowSpy for window information
• Win + Shift + x - open my own gui for searching windows informations through WinGetList with the standard ahk filters
• Win + a - Activate Discord
• Win + s - Activate Spotify
• Win + Enter & Win + Alt + t - Open Windows Terminal
• Win + t - Set windows to AlwaysOnTop
• Win + Shift + 1 - resize window to a little less than 40% screen height and scale the width proportionally
• Win + Shift + a - click the notificiation icon at the bottom right (on W10 and W11)
• Win + m - (un-)minimize a window
• Ctrl + Alt + v - open a context menu for transforming somewhat valid file paths in the clipboard to:
  • with backlashes/slashes/custom separator
  • add a prefix/suffix

In the Windows explorer

• Ctrl + v - can paste an image into the currently open explorer window (active tab on W11)
• Ctrl + Shift + c - copy the path(s) of the currently selected item(s)
• Ctrl + Shift + e - edit the currently selected item(s)

startall.ahk

Starts my AutoHotkey scripts at once (useful for autostart)

vowels.ahk

Has the hotstrings for when I use the US keyboard layout (most of the time now) instead of the German keyboard layout.

converts stuff like: ae- to ä with the specified hot strings triggers at the top

Lib/winhook.ahk

This script comes from the AutoHotkey forums. It's a really cool script for listening to all kinds of window messages. Forum Link

Used Resources

• TheArkive/JXON_ahk2