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For OS X, I use Optimal Layout: http://most-advantageous.com/optimal-layout/ http://most-advantageous.com/optimal-layout/ Here's a screenshot of it in action:
by sillysaurus3 9y ago
For OS X, I use Optimal Layout: http://most-advantageous.com/optimal-layout/ http://most-advantageous.com/optimal-layout/
Here's a screenshot of it in action: http://i.imgur.com/2N8czFR.jpg http://i.imgur.com/2N8czFR.jpg It took about five keystrokes to get the windows arranged like this. No mouse.
It's a product which has gotten far too little love financially compared to the value it produces. It's become an integral part of my OS X usage, and I can't imagine spending a day without it.
I have it set up like this:
Alt-1: Stretch the current window as wide and tall as possible. (Fill all available space.)
Alt-2: Make the current window occupy the left-half of the screen. Press Alt-2 again to occupy the right half.
Alt-3: Make the current window occupy the top-half of the screen. Press Alt-3 again to occupy the bottom half.
Alt-4: Occupy the top-right quarter of the screen. Pressing Alt-4 multiple times moves the window clockwise: bottom-right, bottom-left, upper-left, upper-right.
Alt-5: Center the current window, fill all vertical space, and fill 75% of total horizontal space.
Alt-Tab: http://i.imgur.com/SRFb16t.png http://i.imgur.com/SRFb16t.png Better version of Cmd-Tab. Pressing Alt-Tab once will go to the most recently active window. Twice goes to the second-most-recently active, and so on. Note that this is by window, not application. This alone is a massive improvement.
Alt-F: Search for a window whose title contains the specified string.
Remarkably, these hotkeys have never conflicted with any apps I use, and I've been using it for like two or three years.
The free version works just fine, but pops up a nag screen every day or so.
I wish it defaulted to these shortcuts, because it takes some work to set it up as I've described above. There's also no easy way for me to export and share my configuration with you. But once you've set it up this way, you'll never want to go back. OS X's maximize button is very inconsistent and it's remarkable that there's no hotkey to make the current window fill all available space.
- michaelmrose 9y agoThis is neat but I have a hard time seeing it being worth money since it seems like it could on linux be recreated with shell scripts in aprox 20 minutes. I don't know much about os x but I don't imagine it would be that much harder to resize windows and calculate the size of the screen real estate. Kwin has a similar functionality. When I used that I prefered to bind super+numbers to these operations. I used the numbers on the num pad that corresponded with the desired location. Example 8 toggled between top half top third and Top 2/3. 7 used the top left quarter etc. I think having some mapping between the physical layout and the layout on screen is useful.
- sillysaurus3 9y agoSo don't pay for it :) The free version works flawlessly, forever.
- michaelmrose 9y agoCan't imagine permanently running nagware on my machine I would rather work while sitting on a tack.
- sillysaurus3 9y agoIt's an amazing piece of software. If you can't afford two cups of coffee for it then you can afford to let it nag you once a day with a popup that can be instantly closed.
- michaelmrose 9y agoI don't desire to discourage you from helpfully promoting software that others may enjoy and benefit. I also think if you like it more than you like the 10 bucks you should buy it but I have two logical issues with your posts. You can argue that its worth the money but its silly to argue that it can be had for free when its under terms that nobody including the developer expects you to accept! Its not supposed to be free you are supposed to buy it or delete it. The specious cup of coffee argument. A cup of coffee at a coffee house is itself overpriced its 15c of coffee prepared with 25c of labor. The fact that people like Starbucks are as successful as they are at turning 40c into $5 is amazing. Anyway this emotional appeal doesn't even work on an emotional level if you think about it. I say this as I drink my own delicious 15c cup of coffee.