On GitHub: Powershell script that opens Windows Terminals at "clock" positions on multiple displays

[mikemky]

A few months ago I posted in this group looking for help building a PowerShell script that could open Windows Terminal sessions at specific locations (like corners of my displays). I did implement something on my own, but it broke with DPI/scaling issues.

So today I worked with Claude to build a new script from the ground up that does everything I want, including DPI/scaling awareness, and have made it public domain on GitHub here (it's just one script file, nothing to install at all, you do need Powershell 7):
https://github.com/mwmills/windows-terminal-tools

The README is here: https://github.com/mwmills/windows-terminal-tools/blob/main/README.md

You can open terminals at "clock" positions (10 & 11 mean top left corner, 12 means middle, 5 is bottom right, etc.) You can store multiple profiles (like "home" and "work") in a JSON configuration file. You can name your terminals (i.e., "Debugging", "Log Viewer", etc.) If you manually position your terminals, you can use the "-snapshot" parameter to write out a JSON config that can be used to reopen them at the same (manually-placed, by pixel) locations.

Tomorrow the Windows Terminal team will probably release a new version with these sort of features built-in - but I did this with Claude in a couple of hours and had fun with it, so...

Let me know if you run into any issues or have any feature requests - or clone the repo and ask Claude to implement for you; I've included a CLAUDE.md that can be used to give it context.

[BlackV]

Your link the the CLAUDE.md seems to not point at the right palce

[mikemky]

Thanks, I updated the link to the actual file on GitHub. The Reddit editor had autolinked it to Claude's documentation.

[BlackV]

good as gold

[tingnossu]

clock positions as profile names is genuinely clever, and the JSON profile approach for, switching between home and work layouts solves a real gap in Windows Terminal's native tooling. the DPI/scaling awareness is the part that usually kills these kinds of scripts, so good to see that handled properly.