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I love this feature and it's since become indispensable to me. I find it pretty funny that my #1 favorite desktop UI feature is from Linux. One of the first thi

by dejawu 4y ago

I love this feature and it's since become indispensable to me. I find it pretty funny that my #1 favorite desktop UI feature is from Linux. One of the first things I'll put on a fresh install of Windows or MacOS is a utility that re-creates this behavior. I use AltDrag on Windows (requires a quick tweak for HiDPI): https://stefansundin.github.io/altdrag/ https://stefansundin.github.io/altdrag/ And Easy Move + Resize on MacOS: https://github.com/dmarcotte/easy-move-resize https://github.com/dmarcotte/easy-move-resize

p1necone 4y ago
I'm hoping that Microsoft just implements it natively eventually - their window snapping/tiling-lite functionality has been steadily getting better so they clearly have people working on this kind of window UX QOL stuff.
- Zircom 4y ago
  There's a Microsoft utility calls powertoys that makes the window snapping/tiling even better with it's Fancy Zones feature. Also has a color picker which someone in this thread was decrying the lack of on windows. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/
- jsymolon 4y ago
  > window snapping/tiling Put me in the camp that hates window snap/tiling. I have a certain workflow that needs this window there, and this one here ... don't snap to a location or go full screen.
  - jaywalk 4y ago
    Check out FancyZones in Microsoft PowerToys.
Morgawr 4y ago
>AltDrag That's awesome, I remember when I was a CS student in college I also fell in love with the alt+drag of windows on Linux and I wanted to bring the same on my Windows PC so I wrote this extremely hacky and very unstable tool: https://github.com/Morgawr/EmptyWM https://github.com/Morgawr/EmptyWM It was one of my first "open source" projects and a great learning experience, I would never recommend anyone to use it because it was full of bugs (also I haven't touched it in like 10+ years) but I used it every day and it was such a great feeling just being able to improve my own life with tools I created myself. :)
usui 4y ago
This behavior is natively supported on macOS, although it is turned off by default. Click and drag anywhere on a window while holding CTRL+CMD > defaults write -g NSWindowShouldDragOnGesture -bool true > reboot
Rygian 4y ago
On the flip side, I have become so used to AltDrag behavior on windows, that now I consider KDE alt-drag subpar because it lacks the right-button drag to resize.
nerveband 4y ago
These little tidbits are the reason I love Hacker News. Thank you for sharing!

by dejawu 4y ago

p1necone 4y ago

I'm hoping that Microsoft just implements it natively eventually - their window snapping/tiling-lite functionality has been steadily getting better so they clearly have people working on this kind of window UX QOL stuff.

Zircom 4y ago
There's a Microsoft utility calls powertoys that makes the window snapping/tiling even better with it's Fancy Zones feature. Also has a color picker which someone in this thread was decrying the lack of on windows. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/
jsymolon 4y ago
> window snapping/tiling Put me in the camp that hates window snap/tiling. I have a certain workflow that needs this window there, and this one here ... don't snap to a location or go full screen.
- jaywalk 4y ago
  Check out FancyZones in Microsoft PowerToys.

Morgawr 4y ago

>AltDrag That's awesome, I remember when I was a CS student in college I also fell in love with the alt+drag of windows on Linux and I wanted to bring the same on my Windows PC so I wrote this extremely hacky and very unstable tool: https://github.com/Morgawr/EmptyWM https://github.com/Morgawr/EmptyWM It was one of my first "open source" projects and a great learning experience, I would never recommend anyone to use it because it was full of bugs (also I haven't touched it in like 10+ years) but I used it every day and it was such a great feeling just being able to improve my own life with tools I created myself. :)

usui 4y ago

This behavior is natively supported on macOS, although it is turned off by default. Click and drag anywhere on a window while holding CTRL+CMD > defaults write -g NSWindowShouldDragOnGesture -bool true > reboot

Rygian 4y ago

On the flip side, I have become so used to AltDrag behavior on windows, that now I consider KDE alt-drag subpar because it lacks the right-button drag to resize.

nerveband 4y ago

These little tidbits are the reason I love Hacker News. Thank you for sharing!