This looks to me like some experiment with touch enabled UI on the Mac by Apple.
I don’t know about the definition of touch,but I’ve been using the three-finger drag gesture for a while which seems similar in intention?
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Re: Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
#32Wish you could change the key combo for this, I've been using a long-abandoned tool called Zooom2 to do this with `fn` (and `fn` + `control` to resize`) and fear losing it on my next Mac if it's an M1.
I do this all the time via BetterTouchTool. Don’t know where I would be without it.
Re: Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
#33You can also move macOS windows by dragging the border along the opposite axis, with no configuration.
Along the opposite axis? Can you elaborate?
Re: Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
#34You can also move macOS windows by dragging the border along the opposite axis, with no configuration.
Feels really finnicky to get the window moving this way. Does someone actually use this as their workflow?
Re: Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
#35I never figured out how to easily move windows on macOS. How I know why; it's disabled by default and you also need to hold down `Ctrl`.
Are you sure you are talking about moving them? Because you can move them by grabbing them by the title bar and dragging them to the spot you want.
The title bar is small and it gets smaller every time our resolution gets higher. In Linux window managers, alt+click anywhere in the window and drag has been a standard way to move windows with or without handles since probably two decades, I know it doesn't seem like much but this is a major "creature comfort" thing for me, a Linux expat now using mostly MacOS.
Re: Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
#36Wish you could change the key combo for this, I've been using a long-abandoned tool called Zooom2 to do this with `fn` (and `fn` + `control` to resize`) and fear losing it on my next Mac if it's an M1.
Using an M1 right now and Zooom/2 still works.
Re: Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
#37Wish you could change the key combo for this, I've been using a long-abandoned tool called Zooom2 to do this with `fn` (and `fn` + `control` to resize`) and fear losing it on my next Mac if it's an M1.
This is exactly when I can't deal with a mac as a desktop. My 30 year old muscle memories created in the late 80s with TWM use alt (on a std kbd, would be cmd on mac) + mouse button 1..3 to move, resize and iconify windows. Kde supports this, ldxe supports this, etc. I tried and abandoned using a mac as a desktop ~15 years ago because I didn't have this feature, and I didn't have true focus-follows-mouse.
I don't want to use some app that could be abandoned and end up like the parent, this kind of configurability should be a core OS feature.
Oddly, on a latop its fine, I somehow have a different set of muscle memories for touchpads.
Re: Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
#38Re: Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
#39I use the kinda hidden three finger dragging gesture that you can activate like this: 1. Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Accessibility. 2. Select Pointer Control in the sidebar. (In earlier versions of macOS, select Mouse & Trackpad.) 3. Click the Trackpad Options button. 4. Select ”Enable dragging,” then choose ”three finger drag” from the menu. 5. Click OK.
Insane to me that this isn't the default. So much more ergonomic than press-dragging.
Re: Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
#40Wish you could change the key combo for this, I've been using a long-abandoned tool called Zooom2 to do this with `fn` (and `fn` + `control` to resize`) and fear losing it on my next Mac if it's an M1.
I've replaced Zooom/2 with this open source tool: https://github.com/dmarcotte/easy-move-resize