Yabai: Move/resize named window

[henrik242]

The window command only works with the focused window as far as I can see. Is it possible to resize and move a window by title?

Something like yabai -m window title="^MyTitle.*$" --resize=abs:1000:1000

[dominiklohmann]

```sh
yabai -m query --windows |
jq '.[] | select(.title | test("^MyTitle.*$")).id' |
xargs -I{} yabai -m window {} --resize abs:1000:1000

[henrik242]

OK, I figured it out:

WINDOW_SEL=$(yabai -m query --windows |jq '.[] | select (.title | contains("MyTitle")) | .id')
yabai -m window $WINDOW_SEL --resize abs:1000:1000

EDIT: Heh, you beat me to it. Thanks! Would have been nice with a built-in ID selector though :)

[dominiklohmann]

Note that your version fails if multiple windows match the query.

[henrik242]

@dominiklohmann By the way, am I right to assume that I can't use --resize and --move in the same window message? Right now I have issue two separate commands.

[koekeishiya]

By the way, am I right to assume that I can't use --resize and --move in the same window message? Right now I have issue two separate commands.

Yeah, that is correct. There is no technical reason for this, it's just how I happened to write the message parsing logic. Might revisit this idea in the future, but I don't think it's a big deal.
The overhead of having to issue two separate commands is not that important considering the fact that the macOS AX API will always be the bottleneck here.

[dominiklohmann]

Note that you don't need to issue the query twice:

yabai -m query --windows |
  jq '.[] | select(.title | test("zsh")).id' |
  xargs -L1 sh -c '
    yabai -m window $0 --toggle float &&
    yabai -m window $0 --resize abs:500:500
  '

[henrik242]

@dominiklohmann I guess whether that is only one command or not is a matter of opinion ;)