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Tell HN: Cinch, W7-like window management for OSX

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Re: Tell HN: Cinch, W7-like window management for OSX

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Great find! Here's a keyboard driven alternative that folks might be interested in as well: http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/

This is exactly what I've been looking for since I switched back to the Mac from Linux a few years ago. Thanks for the pointer!

Re: Tell HN: Cinch, W7-like window management for OSX

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post #9

What a milestone for windows when people on OSX are using 3rd party apps to emulate its UX.

Still doesn't handle multiple monitors as elegantly as Win7 though, unfortunately. The Win7 windows management is so intuitive, most of the features I discovered accidentally, as I went about the process of manually doing what windows should have done for ages.

Re: Tell HN: Cinch, W7-like window management for OSX

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post #11

Great find! Here's a keyboard driven alternative that folks might be interested in as well: http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/

This is exactly what I've been looking for since I switched back to the Mac from Linux a few years ago. Thanks for the pointer!

This is quite possibly the best thing I have done to my mac.

Set it up like this and you will never forget the configuration:

http://zacharypinter.com/2009/06/15/keyboard-driven-window-m...

The only thing I changed is that I have the center window mapped to cmd+opt+ctrl+k. This is so you can quickly do a left side keyboard command and then center the narrower window. I do this because sometimes windows look funny open all the way on a wide screen monitor and you only want one window open in the think app.

Re: Tell HN: Cinch, W7-like window management for OSX

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post #8
post #5

Great! A little difficulty with multiple monitors, but workable.

one of the guys I work with had a good suggestion that's working well for me. Nudge the monitor down just a tad so there's a small 'wall' in the top (or bottom) corner to catch... http://grab.by/1kfI

FYI to other readers, Cinch won't trigger itself if you drag a window to the "seam" between monitors on your desktop if you're using multi-monitors. It only appears to trigger if you drag to an edge on your desktop.

But pxlpshr's fix above appears to work fine. :)

Re: Tell HN: Cinch, W7-like window management for OSX

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

one of the guys I work with had a good suggestion that's working well for me. Nudge the monitor down just a tad so there's a small 'wall' in the top (or bottom) corner to catch... http://grab.by/1kfI

FYI to other readers, Cinch won't trigger itself if you drag a window to the "seam" between monitors on your desktop if you're using multi-monitors. It only appears to trigger if you drag to an edge on your desktop. But pxlpshr's fix above appears to work fine. :)

it works with dual monitors but you just have to be very delicate and move the mouse extremely slow which defeats the purpose.
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