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Curious, what is it that doesn’t make sense?

abdullahkhalids 1y ago
I can't figure out how to set a shortcut that moves the current window to my other monitor. Always have to go into the toolbar to do it. Edit: And oh! Why do I constantly have to (painfully manually) maximize windows. Preview is constantly choosing a different size, for example. Why is this not remembered. I can't recall the last time an application in linux forgot its size after restarting.
- asteroidburger 1y ago
  You might like https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle
  - mokkol 1y ago
    This app solves all window problems for me as well.
- rswail 1y ago
  Agreed that apps forget where they were, or end up on the main screen instead of the attached one. Rectangle deals with a lot of that with key shortcuts. I don't love MacOS, but I don't hate it. I have a bunch of extra utilities like Rectangle, BarTender, MonitorControl, Karabiner-Elements, that make things better. I use MacPorts so when I open a terminal, I get a Unix/Linux environment. Things I miss from Linux/X-11, primarily middle button copy/paste, and being able to run an X-11 app remotely over LAN/WAN. But a lot of that is configurable with terminals like iTerm2.
- PeterWhittaker 1y ago
  Not at my Mac right now, but I've defined cmd-F[12] to move windows from one monitor to the other. The trick is to capture the exact words you see in the Window menu, with the exact monitor name, and use those exact words when defining the keyboard shortcut. A clunky PITA, but once setup, works like a charm.
- solardev 1y ago
  Give https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle a try... or Magnet, if you prefer a paid app: https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle
- saagarjha 1y ago
  Can you not assign a shortcut to that item?
dghf 1y ago
The difficulty in navigating to arbitrary locations in file open/save dialogs. I wanted to attach a build log to a Teams post (maybe we shouldn't be using Teams on Mac, but it's a corporate decision that's out of my hands), and I could not for the life of me figure how to get the file-selection dialog to look at the relevant folder (which was somewhere under /private/). In the end, I had to use iTerm to copy the file to somewhere the dialog could find.
- TurboSkyline 1y ago
  I would also like a proper address bar in file selection dialogs. The closest alternative I know of is dragging the target folder from an open Finder window into the dialog. Unlike pretty much any other OS, that doesn’t move the folder, but makes the dialog navigate to it. If you don’t have the folder open in Finder, you can do it with `open .` from a terminal.
- rz2k 1y ago
  It should be more easily discoverable, but command-shift-g lets you type in the path directly, and even has tab completion. If you want to navigate visually, navigate up to the computer or drive where you want to start, then press command-shift-period in order to see all of the directories that are usually hidden. Both of these approaches work in the open and save dialogs, and not just the Finder.
  - dghf 1y ago
    Thank you for the cmd-shift-g tip. That will save me a lot of grief. Re your second tip: how do you navigate up? I couldn’t see an obvious way to do that, either.
    - rz2k 1y ago
      The title of the current location next to "Where:" is a pop up button which will show you the parent directories. There is also a sidebar that appears if you toggle the small button that is an upside down caret.
    - 1y ago

I can't figure out how to set a shortcut that moves the current window to my other monitor. Always have to go into the toolbar to do it. Edit: And oh! Why do I constantly have to (painfully manually) maximize windows. Preview is constantly choosing a different size, for example. Why is this not remembered. I can't recall the last time an application in linux forgot its size after restarting.

asteroidburger 1y ago
You might like https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle
- mokkol 1y ago
  This app solves all window problems for me as well.
rswail 1y ago
Agreed that apps forget where they were, or end up on the main screen instead of the attached one. Rectangle deals with a lot of that with key shortcuts. I don't love MacOS, but I don't hate it. I have a bunch of extra utilities like Rectangle, BarTender, MonitorControl, Karabiner-Elements, that make things better. I use MacPorts so when I open a terminal, I get a Unix/Linux environment. Things I miss from Linux/X-11, primarily middle button copy/paste, and being able to run an X-11 app remotely over LAN/WAN. But a lot of that is configurable with terminals like iTerm2.
PeterWhittaker 1y ago
Not at my Mac right now, but I've defined cmd-F[12] to move windows from one monitor to the other. The trick is to capture the exact words you see in the Window menu, with the exact monitor name, and use those exact words when defining the keyboard shortcut. A clunky PITA, but once setup, works like a charm.
solardev 1y ago
Give https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle a try... or Magnet, if you prefer a paid app: https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle
saagarjha 1y ago
Can you not assign a shortcut to that item?

dghf 1y ago

The difficulty in navigating to arbitrary locations in file open/save dialogs. I wanted to attach a build log to a Teams post (maybe we shouldn't be using Teams on Mac, but it's a corporate decision that's out of my hands), and I could not for the life of me figure how to get the file-selection dialog to look at the relevant folder (which was somewhere under /private/). In the end, I had to use iTerm to copy the file to somewhere the dialog could find.

TurboSkyline 1y ago
I would also like a proper address bar in file selection dialogs. The closest alternative I know of is dragging the target folder from an open Finder window into the dialog. Unlike pretty much any other OS, that doesn’t move the folder, but makes the dialog navigate to it. If you don’t have the folder open in Finder, you can do it with `open .` from a terminal.
rz2k 1y ago
It should be more easily discoverable, but command-shift-g lets you type in the path directly, and even has tab completion. If you want to navigate visually, navigate up to the computer or drive where you want to start, then press command-shift-period in order to see all of the directories that are usually hidden. Both of these approaches work in the open and save dialogs, and not just the Finder.
- dghf 1y ago
  Thank you for the cmd-shift-g tip. That will save me a lot of grief. Re your second tip: how do you navigate up? I couldn’t see an obvious way to do that, either.
  - rz2k 1y ago
    The title of the current location next to "Where:" is a pop up button which will show you the parent directories. There is also a sidebar that appears if you toggle the small button that is an upside down caret.
  - 1y ago