Move windows between zones and monitors with hotkeys

With confinement running, four global hotkeys move the focused window between zones:

Hotkey	Moves the focused window
Ctrl+Alt+W	Up
Ctrl+Alt+A	Left
Ctrl+Alt+S	Down
Ctrl+Alt+D	Right

All four can be changed in Keyboard Shortcuts….

What a keypress does

• The window already fills a zone: it moves to the neighboring zone in that direction. A directly adjacent zone beats a diagonal one.
• The window is floating (not in a zone, or maximized by Windows): it docks into the zone in that direction, measured from the zone nearest its center. If there is no zone further that way, it docks into that nearest zone. A direction key always does something.
• The window is already in the edge zone of its monitor: it crosses to the next monitor in that direction, following how your displays are arranged in Windows. Moving left lands in the other monitor’s right-edge zone, moving right lands in its left-edge zone, and so on. Both monitors must be Enabled and have a layout. Monitors stacked above or below are reached with Up and Down.

Moving the VirtualZones window itself

The VirtualZones main window can’t be resized to fill a zone, so the move hotkeys center it in the target zone at its current size instead. This works across monitors with different scaling.

When nothing happens

• Confinement is stopped. Press Start first.
• There is no zone in that direction and no enabled monitor beyond it.
• The focused window is elevated (running as administrator, like Task Manager). Windows won’t let a normal app move it.
• Another app has taken the hotkey, or your keyboard layout uses Ctrl+Alt as AltGr. See Hotkeys.