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Some screens have enough vertical space—16:9 ain't included unless ginormous.
This confuses me. The aspect ratio is independent of the absolute resolution.
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I admit, I was skeptical when I started reading your comment, by the end I was thoroughly convinced. Even with good hotkeys for tiling window management and switching, there's still a lot of friction in my setup. Envious since I probably can't replicate all of your features on MacOS.
> Envious since I probably can't replicate all of your features on MacOS. Don't raise on click: if you can remember to cmd-click, this mostly works, even with right-clicking. The window receives the click and doesn't raise. Point to focus: you can get this with yabai [0]; note that it recommends disabling SIP (and keeping it disabled) so that it can install some hooks into Dock.app, but you don't need to do that if y…
It is a good article but only starts to go into features I consider important for an efficient desktop system. Select/single click paste. This is the big one. it turns copy/paste from a deliberate action to a natural motion. It always surprises me how infuriating going back to hotkey copy/paste is. Point to focus. Point your mouse at what window you want to be active. Not a huge deal but it goes well with the next po…
Now why "right" side? Well because I'm right handed, scrollbars are right side, resize is right side, tabs extend/open to right and usually closed LIFO. I find I travel less distance across windows/Ubuntu/macos in general.
And yes I hate the Mac's left placement of window controlsnehich breaks my flow.
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.
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.
My top right is "lock screen", which is a handy gesture I can make when getting up.