How to automatically set display layout when automatically setting app layout

[snoblenet]

The app layout feature is great.

But to actually deliver the desired end experience, it really needs to be able to control the display layout too, including:

• which display is to the left, right, middle....
• which has the Dock
• other Dock settings, including autohide, size, and preferred edge to display

All these things change seemingly randomly as I cycle between:

• two external displays plus my laptop in clamshell mode at work
• one external display, my laptop open, and a Universal Access link to a second laptop in my home office
• my laptop alone when working in the backyard

So I end up having to manually re-arrange heaps of things anyway in the manner that 'app layout' is trying to avoid.

If you can point me to a reliable freeware tool to use in conjunction with Rectangle Pro, that might be a viable solution in the mean time.

Many thanks.

[rxhanson]

By default app layouts will be saved with absolute sizing & positioning. It sounds like you want relative positioning, and at the moment I don't have a great way to translate the two, so you'd have to manually change your window dimensions to values less than one (fraction or decimal) with a docking position and display. It's on my roadmap to make a simple way to switch between the two or allow saving in relative sizing and positioning.