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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 1e1a »

sefrost wrote: post #159
noduerme wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The bottom right thumbnail thing really bugged me and confused me when it came out, because I always just want the screenshot on the desktop right away, as it used to be. I don't know why they couldn't have the delay/thumbnail AND put the file somewhere I could reach it immediately. But IIRC, there is some setting that disables the thumbnail behavior and lets the file be written instantly.

I use a trackpad exclusively with MacOS. If I want it immediately on the desktop then I can just "swipe away" (to the right) the thumbnail and it skips the pause. Not perfect but I do value being able to edit it from there, or right click and save to clipboard. So it works for me.

You can also just drag it to the right.

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Post by tzury »

The updates shipped by apple introducing more bugs every cycle. It is across the board, macos, ios and ipad os. The fact there is a group inside apple, that is capable of standing against common sense and users best interest for so long, tells how wrong things are internally.

It is the steve balmer - satya nadella moment of apple.

1. Plugging my laptop to the same desktop screens requires rearranging displays almost every time. 2. Airdrop stops working for no apparent reason. 3. Copy paste across devices no longer a stable mechanism. 4. The stupid new preview app crashing if you scroll pdf pages too fast. And on and on. Those are all newly introduced critical bugs i have been facing since that flameboyant liquid glass virus took over.

Apple is a sillicon valley pioneer from the generation of hewlett packard (before it was called HP) bell labs and others. Watching a decay at its beginning is mind boggling and tragic.

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Post by debesyla »

tzury wrote: post #213

The updates shipped by apple introducing more bugs every cycle. It is across the board, macos, ios and ipad os. The fact there is a group inside apple, that is capable of standing against common sense and users best interest for so long, tells how wrong things are internally. It is the steve balmer - satya nadella moment of apple. 1. Plugging my laptop to the same desktop screens requires rearranging displays almost…

Also MacOS completely crashes if you have ethernet cable connected and decide to also turn on the WiFi. No "hey, choose whatever you wish" or "hey, disconnect from ethernet first" errors, just complete crash to reboot, lol.

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Post by Nition »

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 Linux if you learn shortcuts for close/minimise/maximise as well, you can even remove window borders and title bars entirely. It's free screen real estate.

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Post by bwoodward »

it isnt perfect, but with BetterTouchTool you can toggle resizing -- e.g. three finger double tap on a trackpad, move your cursor around to resize, double tap again to exit the mode.

I use Yabai, which is pretty good -- and you don't have to completely disable SIP.

For moving windows around (floating if using Yabai), I just hold HYPER and move my cursor around (Start Moving Windows). Release HYPER and it stops.

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Post by Nition »

odie5533 wrote: post #193
eviks wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pedantic, you don't know the distribution, so the chance could be higher

The reduction was specifically to the in-window side of the edge, so it's definitely greater than 14%.

Interesting, I've always approached from the outside in.

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Post by consp »

pcurve wrote: post #168

Screens are getting bigger and bigger, yet they make things smaller and harder to click on. Back in the days when it was common for Macintosh to have 640x480 screens (or even smaller), they still fully visible window controls that were impossible to miss. https://erichelgeson.github.io/blog/2021/03/23/ultimate-syst...

I have the feeling the regions are the same since the EGA's 620x200 (and hercules mode!) days of windows 3.x for almost all operating systems. Some window managers have updated it a bit but if you look at the increase in pixel density (640x480 on a 14" crt is 57ish ppi, and that is being very generous, vs my home display of 110ppi and the retina displays with 200+ ppi) I get the idea the regions have stayed the same in pixel size despite display scaling and such.

Or we all go (back) to tiling window managers and get rid of all the resizing with the press of a key, or even no press.

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Post by suddenlybananas »

tzury wrote: post #213

The updates shipped by apple introducing more bugs every cycle. It is across the board, macos, ios and ipad os. The fact there is a group inside apple, that is capable of standing against common sense and users best interest for so long, tells how wrong things are internally. It is the steve balmer - satya nadella moment of apple. 1. Plugging my laptop to the same desktop screens requires rearranging displays almost…

Does Apple mandate AI use the way that Microsoft does?

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Post by latexr »

loeber wrote: post #160
anschwa wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

MacOS is the "it just works" operating system. As such, I think the moment that you need to declare custom workarounds like this, it kind of loses its legitimacy, and you should already be in Linux land.

I abhor the current state of macOS and Tim Cook’s leadership, but your take is nonsensical.

For one, “it just works” hasn’t been used in over a decade, same as Google’s “don’t be evil”, which does tell you something about their current philosophies.

But more importantly, “it just works” was obviously never about it “it reads your mind and does every software feature however you personally like”, it was about the integration of hardware and software and not having to fiddle with drivers and settings to get hardware basics working.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/7hd450/it_just_works/

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