Identify windows by title using regular expressions

[joehewitt]

Love your app in many ways. One way it fails me is it can't identify specific windows by their content. I have several VS Code windows open and want to save and restore each to specific locations. Rectangle Pro seems unable to distinguish one VS Code window from another, so when it does the layout it often assigns positions to the wrong windows. My suggestion - in the App Layout settings panel, allow users to enter a pattern (regex or simpler) to identify each window by its title. This would allow me to position all my VS Code windows exactly where I want them.

[rxhanson]

Thanks for the feedback. This is a bug, and I have it slated for the next release. It should be keeping track of the title and laying out windows accordingly.

[joehewitt]

That's great, however I don't think just comparing the full title would work for me because VS Code changes the title as I move from file to file. It is the portion of the title that describes the workspace which is constant for the window. That's why I suggested an app-specific regular expression comparison. Pretty much all tab-based windows are going to change the title when you switch tabs, so your proposed solution would only be able to restore the window layout if the same tab happened to be open as when the layout was saved.

[ghost]

This sounds similar to the problem I have with Splashtop (remote support software).

I can get the main Splashtop windows to sticky where I want it to be but when I then connect to a remote computer the window opens unstuck.

Recognising the windows title as "Splashtop Connect" should keep them all in order.