Need help. Multiple Chrome windows / multiple profiles / multiple monitors

[erick]

Hello. I want to see if keyboard maestro can do the following:
Open up a chrome window from profile #1, and place it in monitor 1
Open up another chrome window from profile #2 and place in monitor 2
Open up another chrome window from profile #3 and place in monitor 3
Is this possible?
Thank you.

[cdthomer]

Howdy, welcome to the forum! As you might have already figured out, this is a great community full of people who love to help.

I don’t have multiple GC profiles, and I only use one external monitor, so I’m unable to test this, but the demo macro I created and posted below should either work or at least get you headed in the right direction.

Let me know if it doesn’t work and we can go from there.

-Chris

Download Macro(s): Multiple Google Chrome Profiles on Multiple Monitors.kmmacros (12 KB)

Macro Image (Click to expand/collapse)

Macro Notes (Click to expand/collapse)

• Macros are always disabled when imported into the Keyboard Maestro Editor.
• The user must ensure the macro is enabled.
• The user must also ensure the macro's parent macro-group is enabled.

System Information (Click to expand/collapse)

• macOS 13.6.3
• Keyboard Maestro v11.0.2

[erick]

Thank you. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work.. it's only opening up one chrome window, and when I change the profile information, it still opens up the original profile. Any ideas?

[erick]

wait! I got the profiles working. How would I add tabs to each of the windows? ie, I want two different tabs opened to gmail and google calendar for each window.
lastly, I'm hoping that each window can open in the top left of each screen.
Thank you!

[cdthomer]

Glad you got it working!

For your other questions, take a look at the following pages: Browser Window Actions wiki page, and
Manipulate a Window action wiki page.

The KM wiki has a lot of great info for starting out. If, after reading those pages, you’re not able to get things going, please let me know and I’d be glad to give a more detailed sample macro.

-Chris

[erick]

I've made some progress, there are two issues that remain:

1. It opens an empty tab on each window screen
2. The windows all appear on the same monitor
   Thank you for any insight.

[devoy]

Here are a few tips that could help you:

1. Get a macro "Window Properties" by @ccstone from the library. You can position a window anywhere you want, and this will show you the coordinates you can use to position it there again.

2. Use a "select menu" action to switch to the Chrome profile you want

3. Use an "open url" action to open a tab to that location.

4. Rinse and repeat

Good luck!

[erick]

Thank you! Works great.

[Panerus]

Hi, I'm new here and would love to find the macro you mention "Window Properties" by @ccstone". I've tried searching the library but can't find it. Can you help? thanks

[tiffle]

Try this:

Report Properties of the Front Window

[image] Hey Folks, Are you having problems working with a window in an application? Not all windows are created equal on macOS, and Keyboard Maestro is not able to manipulate every different kind of window – so at some point it may become necessary to find out more about a given window (to keep you from pulling your hair out). This macro invites the user to pick from a list of window titles and returns that window's various properties. This window is BBEdit's Character Inspector Palette, …

[Panerus]

Thanks. I'll have a look.