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Vitruvian asks a different question: what would I actually want to do with my computer that I currently can’t? Only be able to drag a window around the screen

Vitruvian asks a different question: what would I actually want to do with my computer that I currently can’t? Only be able to drag a window around the screen from the top left corner

ianlevesque 7mo ago
To be fair that's one more corner than Tahoe.
- aaronbrethorst 7mo ago
  Touché, and such a good reminder why everyone should wait for macOS 27.
danwills 7mo ago
On many Linux desktop environments it is the default - or can be configured: To hold the Windows Key ('meta') and left-mouse-drag a window around from _anywhere inside the window_! No need to get the mouse into the 'title bar'! Additionally, meta+middle-mouse-drag allows one to resize a window from anywhere in the whole window!! (it chooses the closest corner when the drag starts) and this, being able to resize a window without needing to put the mouse in a usually-very-thin window border, is extremely liberating in my opinion! To the point where I really miss it on sub-windows where the app is handling resizing/etc itself! There's a Windows app I used to use that supports the same kind of thing for Windows (different key I think), no idea if there's one for Mac I'm afraid - or whether it can be configured to work that way, but there probably is one so it would be worth investigating if this sounds useful to you I'd say!
- bandie91 7mo ago
  yes, Alt+drag (it's always meta, not meta4, by default on systems i use) has been and still is a killer feature to me. on desktops which does not support it, like windows, i feel like my hands were tied.
- lproven 7mo ago
  > There's a Windows app I used to use that supports the same kind of thing for Windows Taekwindow: https://ttencate.github.io/taekwindow/ https://ttencate.github.io/taekwindow/ I rarely use Windows but any box I do need to use for a while, I put Taekwindow on it. I only want the Linux feature of middle-clicking the titlebar to send to the back, myself, I don't want or need moving or resizing, but they're there.

Vitruvian asks a different question: what would I actually want to do with my computer that I currently can’t? Only be able to drag a window around the screen from the top left corner

ianlevesque 7mo ago

To be fair that's one more corner than Tahoe.

aaronbrethorst 7mo ago
Touché, and such a good reminder why everyone should wait for macOS 27.

danwills 7mo ago

On many Linux desktop environments it is the default - or can be configured: To hold the Windows Key ('meta') and left-mouse-drag a window around from _anywhere inside the window_! No need to get the mouse into the 'title bar'! Additionally, meta+middle-mouse-drag allows one to resize a window from anywhere in the whole window!! (it chooses the closest corner when the drag starts) and this, being able to resize a window without needing to put the mouse in a usually-very-thin window border, is extremely liberating in my opinion! To the point where I really miss it on sub-windows where the app is handling resizing/etc itself! There's a Windows app I used to use that supports the same kind of thing for Windows (different key I think), no idea if there's one for Mac I'm afraid - or whether it can be configured to work that way, but there probably is one so it would be worth investigating if this sounds useful to you I'd say!

bandie91 7mo ago
yes, Alt+drag (it's always meta, not meta4, by default on systems i use) has been and still is a killer feature to me. on desktops which does not support it, like windows, i feel like my hands were tied.
lproven 7mo ago
> There's a Windows app I used to use that supports the same kind of thing for Windows Taekwindow: https://ttencate.github.io/taekwindow/ https://ttencate.github.io/taekwindow/ I rarely use Windows but any box I do need to use for a while, I put Taekwindow on it. I only want the Linux feature of middle-clicking the titlebar to send to the back, myself, I don't want or need moving or resizing, but they're there.