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Your first snap

Drag a window, hold Shift, release over a zone. That is the whole gesture.

Before you start

  • Krova is running: its icon is in the tray or menu bar. See Find Krova.
  • In the tray menu, Enabled is ticked.
  • Every monitor starts with four layouts (Halves, Thirds, Grid 2x2 and Priority), and Halves is the active one, so your first snap has two zones. To change that, see the layout editor.

Snap a window

  1. Press on a window’s title bar and start dragging it.
  2. Without letting go of the mouse, hold Shift. The zones of the monitor under your cursor appear, and the zone under the cursor lights up.
  3. Move over the zone you want.
  4. Release the mouse button. The window moves to fill the zone. By default it eases in over about 120 ms; you can make it instant in Settings.
  1. 1Drag a window by its title bar
  2. hold Shift
  3. 2Zones appear; the one under the cursor lights up
  4. then either
    • release the mouse over a zone The window snaps to the zone
    • release Shift, or press Esc Zones hide, nothing moves
Releasing the mouse while no zone is lit also leaves the window where it is.

Cancel

  • Release Shift before the mouse button: the zones hide and nothing moves.
  • Press Esc: the gesture is abandoned.
  • Release the mouse while no zone is lit: the window stays where you dropped it.

Good to know

  • Only the monitor under your cursor shows its zones, using that monitor’s active layout. See Multiple displays.
  • Different key. Open Settings (tray menu) and change Activation modifier to Shift, Ctrl, Alt, or the Windows key (Command on a Mac).
  • Move or resize? A press that resizes a window, or never moves it, is not a drag. A window has to travel a few pixels before Krova treats it as one.
  • Skipped windows. Minimized and fullscreen windows are skipped, and so are windows of apps running as administrator on Windows. Some apps refuse to go below a minimum size, so the window may not fill the zone exactly. More in Troubleshooting.
  • Edge snapping is separate. If you switch it on, dragging to a screen edge snaps without any key. See Edge snapping.
  • Prefer the keyboard? (Windows) Focus a window and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+1 to move it to zone 1, or Left and Right to walk through the zones. See Keyboard shortcuts. macOS has no keyboard shortcuts yet.
  • Want space between windows? Settings has a Space between zones slider, from 0 to 32 px.