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Rectangle (and spectacle before it) is one of those absolutely essential tools for me when working on my mac. I didn't realize how essential it was to my workfl
by ridv 5y ago
Rectangle (and spectacle before it) is one of those absolutely essential tools for me when working on my mac. I didn't realize how essential it was to my workflow until it was accidentally disabled a few days ago and I struggled hard to use my laptop.
Happily donated to the author of an app so essential for my day to day productivity to show my gratitude for making it and making it open source. If the author happens to read this: thank you!
- hatmatrix 5y agoSpectacle was my jam. Simple and free.
- colecut 5y agoI thought rectangle was the next evolution of spectacle
- nemosaltat 5y agoThe Parallels Developer edition comes with a pretty great window snapping feature. Parallels was the only solution to run Windows on my M1 Mac. In addition to doing a great job at VMs, it comes with a bunch of handy utilities.
- dhosek 5y agoI got Parallels in a bundle deal and was really aggravated by the fact that it kept popping up notifications to install additional utilities. Way uncool.
- mirekrusin 5y agoYes, so agressive, stopped using it because of it.
- awill 5y agoit is. Spectacle is no longer supported.
- aiisjustanif 5y agoIs it the same developers. My main gripe is the complete change of key commands and the option to swap to Spectacle key commands is very limited.
- rxhanson 5y agoSpectacle was created by a different developer. Rectangle contains nearly everything in Spectacle, and it includes an option when you first start the app or when you go to reset the default shortcuts to select the Spectacle shortcuts.
- thamer 5y agoIt is, since Spectacle is no longer maintained. Rectangle is linked from the Spectacle README on GitHub: "Spectacle users have recommended Rectangle as an open source alternative." https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle#important-note https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle#important-note
- kaidon 5y agoI still use Spectacle! Maybe I'll abandon it if I ever upgrade to Big Sur -- but it continues to work for me.
- wyclif 5y agoIs the "Jordan Peterson" who is a Silver Tier supporter of Rectangle that Jordan Peterson?
- fzil 5y agoUsually people just make up names when they are donating. I’ve seen few Steve Jobs and Bezos around patreon.
- terinjokes 5y agoAssuming you mean the one in the news, no. You can see on GitHub it's just a developer with the same name.
- nickysielicki 5y agoNo, but in the realm of interesting Jordan Peterson facts, I recently learned that him and Jim Keller are brothers in law.
- wyclif 5y agoAlso, you'd think Apple would natively support window tiling, but apparently their UX and desktop design philosophy is that they know best when it comes to window size and placement.
- aulin 5y agoIIRC they recently added support for some half-assed tiling, only for two full screen windows side by side. It's called Split View.
- simongray 5y agoNot recently, 6 years ago.
- rcthompson 5y agoMacOS does support tiling. You can tile exactly one window across the entire screen by pressing the green button. If you want to tile more than one window, you can buy additional monitors. (This is sarcasm.)
- runjake 5y agoWrong! You can tile two windows. :-) https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204948 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204948 But yeah, I use Recrangle for my macOS tiling. I use it all day, every day. Would love something that worked more like Pop!_os’ tiling, or perhaps i3’s.
- hulitu 5y agoStrange. Is this new because AFAIK Windows was copied from MacOS and it had tiling at least from 3.0 ? Also in X window managers tiling was an old concept.
- ewzimm 5y agoWindows 1.0 was tiling only. Overlapping windows were added in 2.0.