My biggest complaint about MacOS is that I use multiple screens. When I swipe from one window to another on a single screen it focuses on the other screen which caused a lot of frustration.
Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
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#182I wonder how interactive elements inside the window that respond to drag events are affected.
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which is pretty ironic when the scroll bars are so elusive when you actually want to drag them
I haven't dragged a scroll bar in any OS since windows XP. When do you find it's necessary/convenient?
Some old apps have a 'slow' scroll if you just roll the wheel. Moving around large documents in them is a zen koan, designed to break your brain.
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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)…
Which version of macos are you running? Maximizing/fullscreening windows works for me on multiple monitors over usb-c.
I routinely have mail.app or Firefox fullscreen in one, with emacs or another browser window fullscreen in the other.
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#185I 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've used https://bahoom.com/hyperdock/ since Mac OS 10.4 on my Powerbook G4. Still works great and is updated for every macOS release. Best $10 I ever spent.
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
Along the opposite axis? Can you elaborate?
If you grab the right-hand edge of a window, you can drag it left or right to resize the window. However, if you instead drag it up or down, you can move the whole window.
Oooh, I think this is why I always move my full screen browser window down by a few pixels by accident.
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#187Re: Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
#188I use the feature with the Sway window manager for Linux. With Sway, you can move floating windows like this, and you can also resize or move tiled windows by clicking anywhere in the window while holding down a key.
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#189MacOS 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…
With a wide range of technical savviness among users, macOS tries its best to make everyone happy and IMO does a pretty decent job at it. It's loved by programmers and grandmas alike. Can't really say that about Linux or Windows.
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#190I 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.
My two preferred macOS UX features (compared to other OSs) are:
- Respect for the user: macOS doesn’t show many confirmation messages, notifications, or ad-like things. Apple promotes products in the AppStore or shows you the usual “What’s new” during a new install. But, overall is very respectful, and that includes notifications about OS upgrades. By contrast, Windows is noisy. It asks for confirmation about everything, it has trial crapware in their home editions, and decides to install an OS update without asking in the worst possible moment.
- It just works (at least for the hardware I use). This is my main complain with Linux DEs. I know it improved a lot, but I still have memories of trying to make the Synaptic trackpad driver work or playing with xrandr to use multiple monitors during a presentation.
About the hidden shortcuts… well discoverability should be better. But, is also fun to discover those tricks.