AlwaysMouseWheel supports Alt+dragging in Windows (I initally used it for its primary feature on 8.1, which is sending scroll events to the window under the mouse pointer): https://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/AlwaysMouseWheel
Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
And if you hold option (alt) when dragging left or right, it will mirror the drag on the opposite side, so you can quickly expand or contract the window size
This is incredible, thank you for posting this. A few things I've discovered after playing with this for a few minutes: It works for the corners too - option+drag the corner of a window, and the whole thing resizes symmetrically. Hold shift and it preserves the aspect ratio of the window Double click + holding option on an edge will expand both edges to full screen size You can hold and release option / shift while d…
Wait... you can actually maximise without going full screen? I thought Apple would never back down on that - I use a third-party app to do this usually. If there's a similar thing to let me make a window full height and half width, and to center a window, I can get rid of that app altogether...
Re: Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
#103I don't understand how MacOS is constently praised for its UI while half the comments here mention a third party app just to make it usable. Maybe it's just me, but I owned a Mac for over 5 years and I could never wrap my head around how MacOS handles windows and open apps.
There are so many bugs in the OS and I just work around them. Two recent ones I can think of: Issue 1 is: Shift+click selection doesn't work in Finder's Icon view. To reproduce: In finder select the "icons" view. Click on the first item, Hold shift, and while holding shit then click on the tenth item. Expected behavior is to select Items 1-10 including ten. Workaround: Switch to list view. Issue 2: Lock screen keyboa…
The first one is not a bug, it's designed like that. Icons in icon view can be positioned arbitrarily and have no order. You can't easily extend the selection with shift clicking because in that view, it's not obvious what that gesture is supposed to be extending beyond the thing being clicked on. It's worked like that since MacOS Classic.
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#104I've enabled this "grab" feature on every Linux window manager that has supported it. Hold alt or the windows key, click, move. Simple usability improvements make a world of difference, but for some reason, they are uncommon.
Jup, and Alt+Rightclick for resizing.
I just discovered recently that you can do this in i3, it's a game changer. It's much better than trying to click on tiny borders.
Re: Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
#105I don't understand how MacOS is constently praised for its UI while half the comments here mention a third party app just to make it usable. Maybe it's just me, but I owned a Mac for over 5 years and I could never wrap my head around how MacOS handles windows and open apps.
The answer is that people confuse operating system with operating environment. OSX is a wonderful operating system - which is to say, it’s Unix but I can print things and use WiFi properly. I can edit a pdf, etc. OSX is, in many ways, an absurd operating environment. If you need any proof of this, just click the little green dot in the upper left of an open window…
>If you need any proof of this, just click the little green dot in the upper left of an open window…
It goes full-screen - isn't that an expected outcome?
Re: Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
#106I don't understand how MacOS is constently praised for its UI while half the comments here mention a third party app just to make it usable. Maybe it's just me, but I owned a Mac for over 5 years and I could never wrap my head around how MacOS handles windows and open apps.
Personally, I find macOS superior in its UI overall, but that doesn't mean it's flawless. Apple has made some very strange decisions and is painfully reluctant to row back on them. Keyboard support, in particular, is woeful.
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#107I use https://rectangleapp.com/pro and really enjoy this app (I paid for it, it gets a lot of updates/fixes).
It mostly takes care of snapping and resizing windows with hot keys, but has a less obvious feature in preferences to use mouse.
My setup is: CMD+SHIFT will move any window under mouse pointer CMD+SHIFT+CTRL will resize any window under mouse pointer
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#108Re: Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
#109I use https://rectangleapp.com/pro and really enjoy this app (I paid for it, it gets a lot of updates/fixes). It mostly takes care of snapping and resizing windows with hot keys, but has a less obvious feature in preferences to use mouse. My setup is: CMD+SHIFT will move any window under mouse pointer CMD+SHIFT+CTRL will resize any window under mouse pointer
I didn’t realize there’s a pro version so thank you for posting this. I’m going to give it a try and will pay happily if it improves my workflow.
Re: Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
The answer is that people confuse operating system with operating environment. OSX is a wonderful operating system - which is to say, it’s Unix but I can print things and use WiFi properly. I can edit a pdf, etc. OSX is, in many ways, an absurd operating environment. If you need any proof of this, just click the little green dot in the upper left of an open window…
> If you need any proof of this, just click the little green dot in the upper left of an open window… It goes full-screen - isn't that an expected outcome?
Personally, I would find it far, far more useful if it maximised the window rather than full-screening it. At the very least, having it configurable would be nice.