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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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Post by BrianHV »

weaksauce wrote: post #13
BrianHV wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ope…

I like it. It's actually very close to what I did with sawfish back in the day. Being a vim guy myself, I bound left/down/up/right to hjkl. I may steal some of your ideas as I experiment with my SizeUp bindings though.

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

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Post by baddox »

euroclydon wrote: post #19

The window management for OSX sort of... sucks. I've been using Windows for years and just bought a Mac and I was pretty shocked at how much effort it took to tile two windows.

I'm not a big OS X user (I had a Macbook pro for a couple of years, that's it), but it always seemed to me that the OS wasn't really based on the idea of "windows." Obviously it's possible to tile windows, but the way the top menu bar adapts to the action application, plus the way some applications like Photoshop work (with the toolbars being separate windows with no central background window) always led me to believe the intended paradigm of OS X was quite different than that of Windows.

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

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Post by ghshephard »

Probably the single greatest flaw of OS X, from my perspective, is how it renders large monitors so much less effective than two medium size monitors - nobody I know would prefer a 30" monitor to two (2) 24" Monitors - If someone could only write a windowing manager that converted a single large monitor to two simulated physical monitors, that would be a start. Even better would be to recognize you need to treat a 30" Monitor differently than a 17" Monitor from a windowing perspective.

That and get Terminal.app to actually _tile_ sanely. If I had a _single_ feature request for 10.7 - it would be a window manager that gave you sane tiling capability.

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

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Post by tlrobinson »

This is great, I've been wanting something like this for OS X for awhile.

It would also be nice if you could make windows snap to various edges, as well as offer a virtual "pane-splitter" to adjust the dimensions of stacked windows (and maybe group certain windows together, though I suppose Spaces could be used for that)

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

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Post by GHFigs »

euroclydon wrote: post #19

The window management for OSX sort of... sucks. I've been using Windows for years and just bought a Mac and I was pretty shocked at how much effort it took to tile two windows.

Your experience with a new interface will be improved by making use of the affordances it offers rather than lamenting the ones it does not. To do otherwise is akin to eating soup with a fork.
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