Thanks peavine, i wud try your script. Meanwhile plz have a look at another try
This assumes LeftTop window = 1, LeftMid = 2, MiddleMid=5 ... RightBottom=9

Applescript:

-- LeftBottom wud be 3
winBounds(GetColRow("3") of me)

on GetColRow(winNo)
   if winNo = 0 then
       return
   else if winNo ≤ 3 then
       set Hc to "1"
       if winNo is "1" then
           set Wc to "1"
           return {Hc, Wc}
       else if winNo is "2" then
           set Wc to "2"
           return {Hc, Wc}
       else if winNo is "3" then
           set Wc to "3"
           return {Hc, Wc}
       end if
   else if winNo ≤ 6 then
       set Hc to "2"
       if winNo is "4" then
           set Wc to "1"
           return {Hc, Wc}
       else if winNo is "5" then
           set Wc to "2"
           return {Hc, Wc}
       else if winNo is "6" then
           set Wc to "3"
           return {Hc, Wc}
       end if
   else
       set Hc to "3"
       if winNo is "1" then
           set Wc to "7"
           return {Hc, Wc}
       else if winNo is "2" then
           set Wc to "8"
           return {Hc, Wc}
       else if winNo is "9" then
           set Wc to "3"
           return {Hc, Wc}
       end if
   end if
end GetColRow

on winBounds(GetColRow)
   set {a, b, c, d} to {1920, 0, 3840, 1080}
   set w to (c - a) / 3
   set h to (d - b) / 3
   set Hc to item 1 of GetColRow
   set Wc to item 2 of GetColRow
   set winBound to {(a + (Hc - 1) * w), (b + (Wc - 1) * h), (a + Hc * w), (b + Wc * h)}
   return winBound
end winBounds

Last edited by One208 (2022-01-06 06:24:00 pm)

One208. I tested the second script in post 1, and, after adding the necessary Finder code and making a few other edits, it works well.

Applescript:

tell application "Finder"
   activate
   set {a, b, c, d} to bounds of window of desktop
   set b to b + 25 -- adjust for menu height
end tell

set nCol to 3
set nRow to 3
set w to ((c - a) / nCol) as integer
set h to ((d - b) / nRow) as integer

set theBounds to {}
repeat with i from 1 to nCol
   repeat with j from 1 to nRow
       set winBound to {a + ((i - 1) * w), b + ((j - 1) * h), a + (i * w), b + (j * h)}
       set end of theBounds to winBound
   end repeat
end repeat

tell application "Finder"
   repeat with i from 1 to (count Finder windows)
       set bounds of Finder window i to (item i of theBounds)
   end repeat
end tell

Your script does not consider the dock height or width (if the dock is visible). To fix this, I think you would have to use the visible screen area as returned by the following:

Applescript:

use framework "Foundation"
use scripting additions

set theFrame to current application's NSScreen's screens()'s firstObject()'s visibleFrame() as list
-- returns {{69.0, 0.0}, {1851.0, 1055.0}} on my computer with dock side-aligned

Last edited by peavine (2022-01-06 10:45:48 pm)

One208. Your script works extremely well. I'll be interested to see how you edit the script to account for dock height or width.

Last edited by peavine (2022-01-06 10:14:09 pm)