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Fellow maximiser here. It’s probably the reason why I still love OSX after all the shitty updates. The full-screen mode is a marvel of ergonomics once you get
by pjerem 5y ago
Fellow maximiser here. It’s probably the reason why I still love OSX after all the shitty updates.
The full-screen mode is a marvel of ergonomics once you get it. Just maximize your apps and switch between them with the trackpad like they are virtual desktops (because they, in fact, are).
It’s an awesome mode for a single screen workflow.
Tilings WM are cool but you are rapidly limited with be screen (and even with two).
- djur 5y agoMy main gripe with the macOS fullscreen mode is that there's no way to force the non-fullscreen desktop to stay in one place. If something in a fullscreen app pulls up the desktop (for instance, running an installer you just downloaded), the desktop gets moved to the next position. I want to force it to stay in one place (or, ideally, have a gesture or hotkey to switch between my fullscreen windows and the desktop). I could do this with most of the tiled WMs I've used.
- slimsag 5y agoOh my god, this, this, this! I've basically trained myself not to click links anywhere, because I know the macOS window manager will f* up my virtual desktop order and I'll have to fix it.
- spockz 5y agoAnd in addition hotkeys to go to a specific desktop/app!
- hibbelig 5y agoIsn’t there an option to support spaces by LRU? It defaults to on. I turned it off ages ago. But I also stopped using spaced some time after that so perhaps the option was removed…
- cycomanic 5y agoI'm confused, you make it sound like there is something unique to OSX here. But every Linux WM has had virtual desktops since ages ago and virtual desktops are a superior solution to just fullscreen windows (they can do the same for fullscreen windows+do the same for groups of windows... )
- dagw 5y agoOS X also has normal virtual desktops. The 'unique' feature of OS X is that when you maximize a window instead of maximizing on your current desktop, covering any other windows you have open, it creates a new virtual desktop and moves the maximized window there. When you de-maximize it automatically moves the window back to its original virtual desktop and removes the temporary desktop you created.
- Macha 5y agoI've always found this behavior of OS X super confusing as it means full screening a window breaks my mental model of workspace arrangement when I use the workspace left/right commands. I much prefer i3's behaviour of full screen just being a state on the window you can toggle.
- distances 5y agoSo that's why maximize behaves so weirdly on Mac! I find it pretty jarring so I only use maximize now for some meetings and presentations if I have to use Mac.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoYeah and even before they did this, maximise behaved weirdly on a Mac. It didn't maximise to the screen but to the "content" which meant that some apps would not maximise fully. You can still initiate the old behaviour by holding option when you click the green dot, by the way. But macOS (at least since macOS X) has never had a maximise in the way that most other desktop environments have it. To simply make a window occupy the whole screen on top of everything else.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoI actually hate this with a passion. Because it breaks the order of my virtual desktops, the new temporary one gets inserted after the one you maximised the application from. So the order gets completely messed up after that. I love using many virtual desktops so YMMV.