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"Walking" my windows across the displays with key shortcuts is my biggest pain point here of a bunch of little conveniences that add up. I have three identical

"Walking" my windows across the displays with key shortcuts is my biggest pain point here of a bunch of little conveniences that add up. I have three identical 1080P displays on my desk. On Windows, and it's one example of a bunch of little things, I can press Windows key and an arrow to expand the current Window to half a display - I press it again and it snaps to the next half, and does so across screens - so I can really quickly expand my workspace to fill the screen area depending on the task I'm working on (one or two key presses). There's not way for me to do this on macOS even without keyboard shortcuts. There's no reason for this, and what's worse, with side-by-side view this experience should be better than Windows for me as I'm never working on less than half a display per window - but it's just un-necessarily painful. It would take no time at all to bind side-by-side snapping to keypresses and have it operate predictably across multiple displays but they just don't do it, won't allow me to, and I don't understand why.

cheeze 6y ago
No no it's totally fine. You just need to search stackexchange and find a few posts where people talk about how this is by design, then find some random utility that kinda does what you need but often has a ton of bloat and will nagware you to drop the $29 bucks so that you can have basic window manager functionality. It really is wild to me. It's like nobody ever used two monitors or needed two apps side by side...
- jen20 6y ago
  > then find some random utility that kinda does what you need but often has a ton of bloat and will nagware you to drop the $29 bucks Rectangle [1] is free. Spectacle [2] before that was free. There are several other choices for window snapping in OS X and have been since the earliest days. Personally I use Magnet [3], which was some trivial amount of money many years ago and comes from the App Store - thus has no "nagware" aspect. FWIW the built-in Windows snapping support is terrible - if you have a 49" widescreen display, you'll find it can't snap windows to thirds of the screen and you're back to (true) "bloat and nagware" of third party Windows utilities. > It's like nobody ever used two monitors or needed two apps side by side... Since ~2002 I've had setups that range between 2 and 6 monitors - mostly 3. I've used Windows, Linux, macOS and OpenSolaris in that timeframe, and have found macOS to be _by far_ the least hassle for getting whatever monitor configuration I have wanted. [1]: https://rectangleapp.com https://rectangleapp.com [2]: https://www.spectacleapp.com https://www.spectacleapp.com [3]: https://magnet.crowdcafe.com https://magnet.crowdcafe.com

cheeze 6y ago

No no it's totally fine. You just need to search stackexchange and find a few posts where people talk about how this is by design, then find some random utility that kinda does what you need but often has a ton of bloat and will nagware you to drop the $29 bucks so that you can have basic window manager functionality. It really is wild to me. It's like nobody ever used two monitors or needed two apps side by side...

jen20 6y ago
> then find some random utility that kinda does what you need but often has a ton of bloat and will nagware you to drop the $29 bucks Rectangle [1] is free. Spectacle [2] before that was free. There are several other choices for window snapping in OS X and have been since the earliest days. Personally I use Magnet [3], which was some trivial amount of money many years ago and comes from the App Store - thus has no "nagware" aspect. FWIW the built-in Windows snapping support is terrible - if you have a 49" widescreen display, you'll find it can't snap windows to thirds of the screen and you're back to (true) "bloat and nagware" of third party Windows utilities. > It's like nobody ever used two monitors or needed two apps side by side... Since ~2002 I've had setups that range between 2 and 6 monitors - mostly 3. I've used Windows, Linux, macOS and OpenSolaris in that timeframe, and have found macOS to be _by far_ the least hassle for getting whatever monitor configuration I have wanted. [1]: https://rectangleapp.com https://rectangleapp.com [2]: https://www.spectacleapp.com https://www.spectacleapp.com [3]: https://magnet.crowdcafe.com https://magnet.crowdcafe.com