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Insane to me that this isn't the default. So much more ergonomic than press-dragging.
Absolutely. This and tap to click reduce so much friction it’s a world of difference.
Agreed
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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
Oh... I have scrollbars permanently shown rather than only on-hover. I should've mentioned that — maybe it affects things.
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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.
Excellent, thanks — that's very helpful! It's not quite perfect — it does the old 'make it big, but not as big as possible' behaviour that macOS used to do, but that seems to be app-specific, so it actually does what I want for some things.
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#144Title should say "by cmd+ctrl+clicking anywhere on it"
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#145On linux, this is something I use every single day. It's awesome! Haven't seen this in the thread: You can resize the window by using right-click instead of left. This works on both i3 and KDE for example. Mod+Left click = Drag windows around Mod+Right click = Resize window
on gnome 42 it is middle click! you drove me to experiment, thanks
Re: Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
#146MacOS is full of these UI "tricks" that remain undiscovered by 99% of users because they are:
- not obvious
- not discoverable
For example: if you hold option when you click the Wifi button, you actually can view a lot of information about the Wifi networks you are connecting to. This is invaluable when you're dealing with a Wifi issue, and completely undiscoverable!
I think MacOS is a perfectly usable operating system... If you're god and can somehow "just know" all of these hidden secrets.
Re: Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
#147MacOS is full of these UI "tricks" that remain undiscovered by 99% of users because they are: - not obvious - not discoverable For example: if you hold option when you click the Wifi button, you actually can view a lot of information about the Wifi networks you are connecting to. This is invaluable when you're dealing with a Wifi issue, and completely undiscoverable! I think MacOS is a perfectly usable operating syst…
That Wi-Fi button truck also works with the volume and Bluetooth buttons. You can also quickly toggle focus mode by option clicking on the time (or the Notification Center button)
Re: Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
#148Wish 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.
FYI, I ported the basic features to Hammerspoon (resize, drag) after Zooom2 was abandoned in this free OSS library: https://github.com/dbalatero/HyperKey.spoon
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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?
"It goes full-screen - isn't that an expected outcome?"
Not exactly ...
First of all, for most of the life of OSX, clicking the green dot caused the window to resize larger, but not occupy full screen, by some measure I could never discern. That was always braindead.
Second of all, while the current behavior that I see (expand to literally full screen) is sort of an improvement (that is, at least it makes some sense) it's still badly behaved because bringing a window to literally full screen blanks out my other monitors (!@#) ... and now we're drifting into OSX treatment of multi-monitors which is another few layers of hell.
FWIW, IMO, the correct behavior is to maximize the window in the workspace - which is almost identical, but not quite, to the literal screen.
Re: Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
#150MacOS is full of these UI "tricks" that remain undiscovered by 99% of users because they are: - not obvious - not discoverable For example: if you hold option when you click the Wifi button, you actually can view a lot of information about the Wifi networks you are connecting to. This is invaluable when you're dealing with a Wifi issue, and completely undiscoverable! I think MacOS is a perfectly usable operating syst…
Every time I get a new Mac, I need to search again for how to show hidden files