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Also sometimes it makes the window go full screen, hiding the menu bar at the top :-/
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Window management, how do you work?
https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle
https://rectangleapp.com/- Drag to the edges and it will dock to a portion of the screen.
- Drag to centre top and it will fill the canvas.
- Keyboard shortcuts will place the window wherever you wish, including moving to different display devices.
Oh, it's free and open source and configurable.
- Drag to the edges and it will dock to a portion of the screen.
AlexD
Velocio
@salad
Window management, how do you work?
I came back to using a Mac as my main computer after a long hiatus.
Having used OSX at work or with friends' computers every now and then in the last years I'm somewhat familiar with how the OS changed / with the new features.
What baffles me though is window management; seriously unsure whether I'm just being a bit thick or whether it just always was like that with MacOS -
I see the option to "zoom" with a double-click on the title bar of an active window -
this does exactly what it does on Windows in some applications (like Mail): stretch a window both horizontally and vertically, but not covering the dock, and also keeping the menu bar (so not entering full screen, but making the window "as big as possible"). When double-tapping the title bar again the window returns to its resized state - also exactly to the place where it was before.
This is what I like.
With other apps like Safari for example, the behaviour is different, and quite weird: double tapping the title bar here does not make the window as big as possible, but, say, make it stretch 100% vertically, but only increase size somewhat horizontally. Double tapping the title bar continues switching between these two states.
With the "Photos" app for example, the double-tapping on the title bar does not do anything at all - yet I can "maximize" the window by option-clicking the green button in the upper left corner.
Wtf.
I see no option to change / set this behaviour, can somebody please tell me what's going on here?