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Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm

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Re: Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm

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Post by frosted-flakes »

threads2 wrote: post #16

I set the Mac OS dock to auto-hide and it frees up, like, an inch of space. Blows me away when I see people with the default-sized dock always open. Any real reason for this?

Why do you have the icon size set so large? When I used a Mac I always kept the icons small and disabled auto-hide because I disliked how long it took for the bar to pop up.

Re: Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm

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Post by david422 »

threads2 wrote: post #16

I set the Mac OS dock to auto-hide and it frees up, like, an inch of space. Blows me away when I see people with the default-sized dock always open. Any real reason for this?

Because you have to mouse over, wait half a second, then find and click the app you're looking for? I'd rather trade screen real estate for time.

Re: Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm

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Post by goosedragons »

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #17

related to TFA but different: does anyone know how to xrandr to arrange 3 screens into this arrangement: S C R E E N T H R E E screen one screen two so that moving the mouse vertically from screen 1 or 2 enters screen 3? That is: screen one LEFT-OF screen two screen one BELOW screen three screen two BELOW screen three Last time I tried this, it did not work (I assume because xrandr makes assumptions about physical mo…

I think for that kind of setup you have to specify based on pixels directly rather than relative. I think the "-pos" argument and you give the coordinates. It creates one giant virtual display (it's always a rectangle) that can accommodate the total resolution of all your displays so you might have to do some math to get it how you want. You could also try one of the GUI front ends to make a config for you like arandr.

Re: Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm

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Post by Calamityjanitor »

frosted-flakes wrote: post #21
threads2 wrote: post #16

I set the Mac OS dock to auto-hide and it frees up, like, an inch of space. Blows me away when I see people with the default-sized dock always open. Any real reason for this?

Why do you have the icon size set so large? When I used a Mac I always kept the icons small and disabled auto-hide because I disliked how long it took for the bar to pop up.

It is way too slow by default, I set the delay and animation time to 0 so it pops up immediately.

  defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -int 0
  defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -int 0
  killall Dock

Re: Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm

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Post by fragmede »

bonyt wrote: post #4

I have the top-left corner on MacOS set to act as a "hot corner." Whenever my mouse goes there, it triggers exposé, showing all my windows to me. I got the habit from using gnome3, which does this by default, and find it quite handy with muscle memory.

There are three other corners as well! I have one as show other windows from the same app, one as show windows on this desktop, and one for show all desktops. actually leave top left unhot because that's where the apple menu is.

Re: Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm

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Post by yellowapple »

I've lately been a fan of Haiku's (and BeOS') default approach of putting taskbar functionality in the (top-right) corner, without taking up the entire edge (unless you've somehow got enough distinct windowed programs running to necessitate that. Achieves most of the same paradigm; the only thing missing is the window control button placement, but the tabbed windows are a worthwhile tradeoff.

I still prefer tiled windows (particularly herbstluftwm and PaperWM), but as far as floating window setups go it feels about as well-designed as it gets.

Re: Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm

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Post by moralestapia »

david422 wrote: post #22
threads2 wrote: post #16

I set the Mac OS dock to auto-hide and it frees up, like, an inch of space. Blows me away when I see people with the default-sized dock always open. Any real reason for this?

Because you have to mouse over, wait half a second, then find and click the app you're looking for? I'd rather trade screen real estate for time.

Huh?

Then forget about the Dock and use Spotlight, I launch whatever I need in less than a second.

Re: Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm

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Post by zamadatix »

david422 wrote: post #22
threads2 wrote: post #16

I set the Mac OS dock to auto-hide and it frees up, like, an inch of space. Blows me away when I see people with the default-sized dock always open. Any real reason for this?

Because you have to mouse over, wait half a second, then find and click the app you're looking for? I'd rather trade screen real estate for time.

I forget the way to set it but you can make the delay down to 0 if you want. Lately I've been using Mission Control to switch to active ones and Launchpad for to switch to inactive ones though. Spotlight can be good too.
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