Save a preset for one-press snapping

Goal

The region you use most is saved as a preset, bound to a single key.

Save a preset

1. Focus a window and press Win + Alt + Space to open the resize overlay.
2. Drag across the grid to outline the rectangle you want to save.
3. Hold Ctrl while releasing the mouse. A small dialog appears asking you to press a key.
4. Press the key you’d like to bind. Confirm with Save.

That key is now bound to that rectangle on that monitor. Your other monitors can use the same key for something else.

Apply a preset

With the resize overlay open, press the bound key on its own — no modifiers. The focused window snaps to the saved rectangle and the overlay closes.

Preset keys are displayed as keyboard glyphs — a preset bound to a digit shows as “1”, not “D1” — and the numpad digits count as the same key as the top-row digits.

You’ll also see a thumbnail of every saved preset along the edge of the overlay — up to 100, wrapping onto new lines, in the same alphabetical shortcut-key order as the tray menu. Hovering one previews the position on the focused window without committing; clicking it applies the preset.

Holding Shift while clicking a preset (or pressing its key) does one thing more: it also remembers that position for the focused window’s application.

Presets survive grid changes — they’re stored as fractions of the screen, not cell coordinates. The grid explains why.

Each monitor has its own presets

Presets are saved per monitor, so the same key can mean something different on each one. A can fill the left half of monitor 1 and the top third of monitor 2.

• Pressing a key applies the preset for the monitor the overlay is on.
• The thumbnails along the edge of the overlay show only that monitor’s presets. Press Tab to switch the overlay to another monitor and see its presets.
• The tray menu’s Move to lists the presets for every monitor.

Monitors that share settings also share presets. With the default share mode, Shared by resolution, monitors with the same resolution have one set of presets between them. To give each of them its own, set Allow displays to share settings to Separate in Settings → Displays.

Presets across displays

If you press a preset key on a display that doesn’t have it, MaxTo will look for that key on your other displays. If it finds one, it switches the overlay to that display and applies the preset there.

That’s how you make one key that moves a window to a different monitor, for example one that fills your second screen. You save the preset on the target monitor itself. You don’t drag from one monitor to another.

The overlay shows one monitor’s grid at a time. Clicking on a different monitor closes the overlay, and the click goes to whatever is underneath. Holding Ctrl doesn’t change what the drag does, either. MaxTo only checks for it when you release the mouse.

1. Focus a window and press Win + Alt + Space.
2. Press Tab (or PageDown) until the overlay is on the monitor you want windows sent to.
3. On that monitor’s grid, drag from the top-left cell to the bottom-right cell to cover the whole screen, or outline any smaller region.
4. Hold Ctrl while releasing, and bind a key you haven’t used for a preset on your other monitors.

Now open the overlay on any other monitor and press that key. The window moves to the saved region on the target monitor.

This only works when both of these are true:

• The key is free on the monitor you press it from. A monitor’s own presets always win. If you’ve bound 1 on both monitors, 1 never leaves the current one. If several other monitors have the key, the first one MaxTo finds wins.
• The two monitors don’t share presets. If they share (see above), the key counts as bound on both, and it snaps the window on the current monitor. Two identical monitors share by default, so switch to Separate. Each monitor then starts with its own default grid and no presets, so you’ll need to save them again. Switching back brings back the shared ones.