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Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues

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Re: Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues

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Post by tom_ »

ed_mercer wrote: post #110
terhechte wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree that macOS has become worse, however your examples don't really count: Window snapping was implemented some time ago: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/12/macos-sequoia-window-ti... Instead of win key, you can press F3, or just set a hotkey that works for you in the System Preferences Instead of clicking the red maximize button, you can double-click the window header / title. This will use an algorithm to try…

You can also hold ALT and press the green button to mazimze.

The app still gets to decide though! Most programs do go full size with an alt+green click, but not all. A column-style Finder window, for example, seems to go taller but no wider.

Re: Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues

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Post by zapzupnz »

Resizing windows is easier when you don't have to grab the corner. Some people are talking about holding a key to resize on Linux but I don't want to be forced to use the keyboard.

My favourite solution on macOS is an app called Swish which lets you do trackpad/Magic Mouse gestures to throw windows into corners, along edges, etc.

Re: Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues

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Post by jitl »

ivanjermakov wrote: post #31

Since the first taste of Linux WMs, I believe the best and only good way of handling window move and resize is super+lmb/rmb respectively. No more pixel-perfect header/corner sniping! https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/qv0vmz/missing_supe...

i use this. it’s not maintained so you need to manually enable its access to assistive control in Settings but besides that still works great:

https://github.com/jmgao/metamove

it does exactly what you want coming from Fluxbox-style window managers

here’s how i configure it (it has a settings ui, this just automates setting it up) https://github.com/justjake/Dotfiles/blob/3d359f961b009478ef...

i didn’t notice the hideous corner grab areas for a few weeks after updating to 26 because i never tried to use the corner

Re: Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues

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Post by jitl »

paranoidxprod wrote: post #55
ivanjermakov wrote: post #31

Since the first taste of Linux WMs, I believe the best and only good way of handling window move and resize is super+lmb/rmb respectively. No more pixel-perfect header/corner sniping! https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/qv0vmz/missing_supe...

Recently getting a new Mac for work, coming from Hyprland has been tough, but I feel like I’m getting there. Aerospace and Karabiner-Elements have gotten me most of the way there. Have had to write a few scripts to get the workspaces working the way I’m used to, but overall I got a significant part of my workflow to mirror my Linux setup, but would still love to get the super+right click to resize working somehow (th…

see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998527

Re: Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues

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Post by [deleted] »

2bitencryption wrote: post #36

The interesting part, for anyone who actually reads the article - the change was fixed in an RC and then reverted in the final release. Which implies there was some regression, some issue, some incorrect behavior or negative impact. One has to wonder… what could it have been? What could the issue with having a more accurate clickbox for the corner of the window possibly be?

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Re: Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues

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Post by anschwa »

ivanjermakov wrote: post #31

Since the first taste of Linux WMs, I believe the best and only good way of handling window move and resize is super+lmb/rmb respectively. No more pixel-perfect header/corner sniping! https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/qv0vmz/missing_supe...

On macOS, you can enable window dragging by holding down the Control+Command keys with this command:

    defaults write -g NSWindowShouldDragOnGesture -bool true
I use this with "three finger drag", and resizing at the window border hasn't been much of an issue for me.

Re: Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues

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Post by Someone1234 »

jazzyjackson wrote: post #98
xvxvx wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s significantly worse than I even imagined.

It's two gestures, a swipe and a click and drag. I'm not even saying Mac is superior here, just that there's a quick way to do full screen splits

So the trick is five hidden things, not presented in the UI. Great!

Re: Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues

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Post by weikju »

anschwa wrote: post #136
ivanjermakov wrote: post #31

Since the first taste of Linux WMs, I believe the best and only good way of handling window move and resize is super+lmb/rmb respectively. No more pixel-perfect header/corner sniping! https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/qv0vmz/missing_supe...

On macOS, you can enable window dragging by holding down the Control+Command keys with this command: defaults write -g NSWindowShouldDragOnGesture -bool true I use this with "three finger drag", and resizing at the window border hasn't been much of an issue for me.

Wish it worked on all windows. For some reason Settings is exempt from this, for example.

Re: Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues

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Post by anorb »

matja wrote: post #33
_def wrote: post #8

I miss resizing windows with alt+right click

Did macOS support that at some time in the past? I've used Linux as my daily OS for 20 years and got so used to alt-right resize and alt-left drag that the macOS and Windows way of actually needing to move my mouse to the corner or edge of a window feel almost barbaric in comparison. I still have found no way free equivalent on macOS.

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