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Along the opposite axis? Can you elaborate?

aeyes 4y ago
Drag the left or right border of a window up or down.
Etheryte 4y ago
If you grab the right-hand edge of a window, you can drag it left or right to resize the window. However, if you instead drag it up or down, you can move the whole window.
- adamomada 4y ago
  And if you hold option (alt) when dragging left or right, it will mirror the drag on the opposite side, so you can quickly expand or contract the window size
  - dymk 4y ago
    This is incredible, thank you for posting this. A few things I've discovered after playing with this for a few minutes: It works for the corners too - option+drag the corner of a window, and the whole thing resizes symmetrically. Hold shift and it preserves the aspect ratio of the window Double click + holding option on an edge will expand both edges to full screen size You can hold and release option / shift while dragging and it'll work as you'd expect.
    - oneeyedpigeon 4y ago
      Wait... you can actually maximise without going full screen? I thought Apple would never back down on that - I use a third-party app to do this usually. If there's a similar thing to let me make a window full height and half width, and to center a window, I can get rid of that app altogether...
      - dymk 4y ago
        That seems to be the case! Double clicking on an edge will cause it to expand to the edge of the window. The shift + option trick doesn't just expand to the first edge it hits, it looks like both edges expand as much as possible. So when combined with double clicking on a window corner, that makes all for edges expand to display size (even if the window was partially off the monitor).
      - imadethis 4y ago
        You can also double click the title bar, or option-click the green full screen button to maximize to the current window.
        oneeyedpigeon 4y ago
        For me, double-clicking the title bar minimizes a window.
        imadethis 4y ago
        That’s a specific setting, under Settings > Dock & Menu Bar > Double-click a window’s title bar to zoom | minimize. It should default to zoom on a fresh install.
        oneeyedpigeon 4y ago
        Excellent, thanks — that's very helpful! It's not quite perfect — it does the old 'make it big, but not as big as possible' behaviour that macOS used to do, but that seems to be app-specific, so it actually does what I want for some things.
      - philistine 4y ago
        Holding Option when clicking the green maximize button will expand the window without entering full screen mode. You know you're doing it right if the glyph inside the button turns from two triangles to a plus sign.
    - divbzero 4y ago
      And, apparently, double click on an edge without holding any keys will expand just that edge out as far as possible.
  - _moof 4y ago
    By convention on Macs option more generally means "anchor at the center." The selection tool in a proper Mac graphics program, for example, will pin the center of the selection to the point where you clicked instead of pinning a corner there. Resizing shapes in a well-made diagramming app behaves this way too. Been this way since the '80s.
  - scelerat 4y ago
    There are some paradigms like this option-drag-resizes-both-sides one which have antecedents at least as far back as MacDraw circa 1984.
  - outworlder 4y ago
    AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH OMG THANK YOU This is amazing. Over a decade using OSX and I never knew this
- mahathu 4y ago
  Oooh, I think this is why I always move my full screen browser window down by a few pixels by accident.
millzlane 4y ago
But you can't drag left or right first. If you do, you won't be able to move the window. You either have to decide which one you want to do on the first click.

Drag the left or right border of a window up or down.

If you grab the right-hand edge of a window, you can drag it left or right to resize the window. However, if you instead drag it up or down, you can move the whole window.

adamomada 4y ago
And if you hold option (alt) when dragging left or right, it will mirror the drag on the opposite side, so you can quickly expand or contract the window size
- dymk 4y ago
  This is incredible, thank you for posting this. A few things I've discovered after playing with this for a few minutes: It works for the corners too - option+drag the corner of a window, and the whole thing resizes symmetrically. Hold shift and it preserves the aspect ratio of the window Double click + holding option on an edge will expand both edges to full screen size You can hold and release option / shift while dragging and it'll work as you'd expect.
  - oneeyedpigeon 4y ago
    Wait... you can actually maximise without going full screen? I thought Apple would never back down on that - I use a third-party app to do this usually. If there's a similar thing to let me make a window full height and half width, and to center a window, I can get rid of that app altogether...
    - dymk 4y ago
      That seems to be the case! Double clicking on an edge will cause it to expand to the edge of the window. The shift + option trick doesn't just expand to the first edge it hits, it looks like both edges expand as much as possible. So when combined with double clicking on a window corner, that makes all for edges expand to display size (even if the window was partially off the monitor).
    - imadethis 4y ago
      You can also double click the title bar, or option-click the green full screen button to maximize to the current window.
      - oneeyedpigeon 4y ago
        For me, double-clicking the title bar minimizes a window.
        imadethis 4y ago
        That’s a specific setting, under Settings > Dock & Menu Bar > Double-click a window’s title bar to zoom | minimize. It should default to zoom on a fresh install.
        oneeyedpigeon 4y ago
        Excellent, thanks — that's very helpful! It's not quite perfect — it does the old 'make it big, but not as big as possible' behaviour that macOS used to do, but that seems to be app-specific, so it actually does what I want for some things.
    - philistine 4y ago
      Holding Option when clicking the green maximize button will expand the window without entering full screen mode. You know you're doing it right if the glyph inside the button turns from two triangles to a plus sign.
  - divbzero 4y ago
    And, apparently, double click on an edge without holding any keys will expand just that edge out as far as possible.
- _moof 4y ago
  By convention on Macs option more generally means "anchor at the center." The selection tool in a proper Mac graphics program, for example, will pin the center of the selection to the point where you clicked instead of pinning a corner there. Resizing shapes in a well-made diagramming app behaves this way too. Been this way since the '80s.
- scelerat 4y ago
  There are some paradigms like this option-drag-resizes-both-sides one which have antecedents at least as far back as MacDraw circa 1984.
- outworlder 4y ago
  AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH OMG THANK YOU This is amazing. Over a decade using OSX and I never knew this
mahathu 4y ago
Oooh, I think this is why I always move my full screen browser window down by a few pixels by accident.

millzlane 4y ago

But you can't drag left or right first. If you do, you won't be able to move the window. You either have to decide which one you want to do on the first click.