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macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by vages »

vbezhenar wrote: post #129

"Hold Option while double-clicking a window's corner to expand the window to fill the screen." - this is the most important tip for macOS, IMO. I still don't understand what's in their heads that they don't maximise Safari/Preview to the full width by default. I have 32" display and I'm using all my windows maximized, I just don't ever want them side by side or something like that.

That is because the green button is a «zoom» button, which maximizes the window to display its contained document: https://blog.xoria.org/macos-tips/#window-management

I am not sure if I agree with the choice either, but that’s the explanation.

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by frizlab »

vbezhenar wrote: post #129

"Hold Option while double-clicking a window's corner to expand the window to fill the screen." - this is the most important tip for macOS, IMO. I still don't understand what's in their heads that they don't maximise Safari/Preview to the full width by default. I have 32" display and I'm using all my windows maximized, I just don't ever want them side by side or something like that.

That’s how you work, though. Having Safari fullscreen is really not great for me. Nor Preview. Actually the only thing I have fullscreen (not in its Space) is Xcode.

EDIT: I meant window maximized to fill the screen, not fullscreen, which is what option-double-clicking a window corner does.

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by tgv »

tannhaeuser wrote: post #108

All I want is an app that can fix the "broken window" focus management. Like when I click a window, Mac OS brings to top all windows of the respective app, and when an app (say, Finder) has no window open currently, bringing it to front also unaskedly manipulates the stacking order such that other app's windows become the top most one, completely destroying the visual context. Also, back in the days I used Expose a l…

> when I click a window, Mac OS brings to top all windows of the respective app

I don't have that, and I can't remember having done anything to stop it.

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by tacker2000 »

sandbags wrote: post #134
tacker2000 wrote: post #121

I remember a launcher that was kind of bare bones and didnt use spotlight for indexing, it compiled its own index, and was able to do great fuzzy searching, but I forgot the name and cant find it, anyone else have a clue?

Possibly QuickSilver?

No, it's not that, it look more "command-line" style, very minimal UI... if that helps

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by galad87 »

achairapart wrote: post #70

There are so many hidden/obscure keyboard shortcuts in macOS, from time to time a post with a nice collection (and usually some hidden gems) appears on the front page here. But I always wondered if there is a place where you can find all of them, for reference.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102650

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by danielvaughn »

tannhaeuser wrote: post #108

All I want is an app that can fix the "broken window" focus management. Like when I click a window, Mac OS brings to top all windows of the respective app, and when an app (say, Finder) has no window open currently, bringing it to front also unaskedly manipulates the stacking order such that other app's windows become the top most one, completely destroying the visual context. Also, back in the days I used Expose a l…

I just want a Finder that actually works. It’s pretty incredible just how bad Finder is. It’s by far the worst piece of software I’m forced to use on a daily basis.

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by danielvaughn »

nomilk wrote: post #20

Love that this is straight to the point. My tips: - Use Alfred. Game changer. It's an immediate improvement on spotlight search, you can run commands with three keystrokes (rather than opening a terminal, just command + space, then > ), it gives clipboard history and fast append (lets you press command + c twice fast to append to clipboard, and opt + command + c to search clipboard history), and lets you make 'workfl…

Magnet is pretty good for window management, IMO.

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by hafta »

notpushkin wrote: post #72

> Press ⇧⌘/ to search all of the current app's menu items. Then use the Up/Down arrow keys to navigate the results and press Return to execute that menu bar action. Kinda like command palette for every app, I like it. Would be even better if it preselected the matching option. Unfortunately, this is broken in Firefox – they’ve bound ⌘ ? to their help page, and it opens then immediately closes the Help menu. You can r…

The menu immediately closing was recently fixed[1] in Firefox 136. We'll look into the content of that menu not working correctly. Thanks.

1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1935257

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