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> Mac a little better in window management Can you elaborate on this? I've been using a Mac for work for a couple of years now and I find the out-of-the-box wi
by paavohtl 6y ago
> Mac a little better in window management
Can you elaborate on this? I've been using a Mac for work for a couple of years now and I find the out-of-the-box window management experience pretty bad compared to Windows. No snapping to sides or corners, no quick resize to standard sizes other than maximum, and most importantly no easy way to change between multiple windows of the same program using keyboard shortcuts. I've been using Magnet [1] and Contexts [2] to improve things, but it's a shame I have to use paid third party apps for basic functionality like this.
[1] https://magnet.crowdcafe.com/ https://magnet.crowdcafe.com/
[2] https://contexts.co/ https://contexts.co/
- leokennis 6y agoWindows definitely improved significantly with Win10 in this regard. But Exposé (or whatever it's called now) invoked via a swipe gesture is fantastic. Swipe up with 4 fingers and I see all windows. Swipe down with 4 and I see all windows of the current app. Combine this with Spotlight to quickly find and open apps/documents. But, everyone has a different workflow. I can imagine that if you're a heavier shortcuts user, Windows works better.
- paavohtl 6y agoExpose is pretty good! But the Windows 10 task view [1] (Windows+Tab) does practically the same thing. [1] https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-task-view-windows-10 https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-task-view-windows-10 Spotlight is great and puts Windows 10's search to shame, although it feels like it has gotten worse in the past few years.
- Wevah 6y agoIt might not be quite what you want, but Command-(Shift-)-` should cycle through an app’s windows.
- ollifi 6y agoOnly works if your keyboard layout includes backtick unfortunately.
- jooize 6y agoYou can change the shortcut in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Keyboard > Move focus to next window. Try also using “Move focus to active or next window”. I have that mapped to Option-Command-` (and implicitly Option-Shift-Command-` for reverse order).
- cesarb 6y agoAt least on Gnome (which AFAIK copied this from Mac) it's actually mapped to "the key above Tab", even if that key is something other than backtick.
- ollifi 6y agoThey improved it on copying, this does not work in MacOS.
- wdb 6y agoContexts is nice but hasn't been updated since 2018! If you know a similar nice alternative, let me know.
- deergomoo 6y agoThey have said they're working on a Big Sur compatible version (it works currently, but the rendering is a bit broken). That's fine by me to be honest—I paid for it once and it's done everything I need it to ever since.
- anonymoushn 6y agoI used various window management helpers over the years but recently settled on Hammerspoon.
- aramix 6y ago> no easy way to change between multiple windows of the same program using keyboard shortcuts CMD + ` (backtick)
- gknoy 6y agoI found Spectacle (since replaced by Rectangle [0], I hear?) to be a treasure in this regard. Key bindings to maximize and resize, and even change what desktop a window is on. I picked it because it was closest to the window-snapping / sizing bindings I had in XFCE years ago, but it basically makes OSX window management no longer frustrating. 0: https://rectangleapp.com/ https://rectangleapp.com/