Can we talk for a moment about how horribly well hidden these shortkeys are for normal users? Why not blend in a shortkey-tooltip when dragging a window around normally using the title bar? Make stuff discoverable again?
Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
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Re: Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
#132I 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.
Thanks for spreading, one of the very first things I enable. How this isn't the default escapes me.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
Holding Option when clicking the green maximize button will expand the window without entering full screen mode. You know you're doing it right if the glyph inside the button turns from two triangles to a plus sign.
Re: Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
#134I 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
Hummingbird is another tool that does this.
https://github.com/finestructure/Hummingbird
Re: Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
#135I thought this was fairly well known with respect to the defaults customizations. There is a repo here: https://macos-defaults.com/#-what-s-a-defaults-command
...but it is missing a lot of them, which are scattered across the internet. Some others worth checking out are aggregated here:
https://gist.github.com/romanhaa/9804183f242991007b316a59c4b...
Re: Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
#136Is this the default on Monterey? This behavior is enabled on my system, but I'm 100% sure I've never executed the terminal command from the linked article.
I just tried it on a stock machine and it is not. Do you have any third party system utilities on yours? Or are you clicking near the (larger) title bar area?
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#137I wish there was a feature or an app that would prevent moving and lock windows in place instead of this.
For example, Spark (email) annoys me cause you can drag the window by dragging the search box, so sometimes clicking that to focus causes the window to shift by a couple pixels
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can also double click the title bar, or option-click the green full screen button to maximize to the current window.
For me, double-clicking the title bar minimizes a window.
That’s a specific setting, under Settings > Dock & Menu Bar > Double-click a window’s title bar to zoom | minimize. It should default to zoom on a fresh install.
Re: Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
#139You can also move macOS windows by dragging the border along the opposite axis, with no configuration.
It's frustratingly difficult to do this via the right edge, if there's a scrollbar there.
Which is pretty ironic when the scroll bars are so elusive when you actually want to drag them
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#140I 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.
Resizing windows is a weakness of Mac OS. It mostly retains the original fully manual method of dragging the edges of individual windows which is a fiddle process. There are some methods like mentioned in the original post, but that is about it. For that reason there are dozens of third-party tools, many free, that people use and like for their particular ways of working. It would be nice if Apple were to look at the…
Closing the window and not closing the app is great and one of my favourite things from switching to macOS from Windows. At the same time, the Zoom thing is ridiculous. Some apps do the right thing (e.g., Firefox), while some leave you scratching your head (Finder).
Ctrl + Opt + Return is the only reason I have Rectangle installed.