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by dbatten1 days ago |

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by ffsm81 days ago|

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As a 38" ultrawide owner myself, I use vscode or intellij maximized most of the day, depending on the codebase I'm

Browsers only ever get maximized to the left/right half screen for me too

Which is something macos should really improve on though, the ux is pretty bad compared to Windows and Linux there

by jmspring1 days ago|

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I split a vs code window and a browser or a browser and terminal window on my 13" mb air. Usually need additional context on the same screen.

by plandis21 hours ago|

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MacOS has a built in 4x4 window tiling which works for this purpose for me. I don’t find ever wanting more than 4 windows open on an ultrawide. Definitely not as powerful as something like xmonad but useful for the majority of my use cases.

by eru20 hours ago|

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Windows also has this kind of tiling built-in. It even comes with default keyboard shortcuts.

by troad19 hours ago|

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So does Mac: https://support.apple.com/en-us/guide/mac-help/mchl9674d0b0/....

Obnoxiously, it's part of the recent trend of overloading the Globe/Fn key, so it's hard to do with third-party keyboards.

by saagarjha13 hours ago|

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Can you not change the shortcut?

by wholinator219 hours ago|

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Here to say ubuntu's got it built in as well

by bobthepanda1 days ago|

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While I don't maximize anything on a monitor that wide, I do appreciate Window's snap to half/quarter functionality for monitors that wide, and I wish Mac had the same ability natively.

by drivers991 days ago|

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> I wish Mac had the same ability natively

Hover over the green button in the top left of the window. I recently found out about that menu for moving a window between screens, which is also an option it has. (I also just found them in the Window menu if you prefer that. I dont; the options take an extra level of hovering to get to.)

by setopt1 days ago|

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You can also long-click the button instead of hovering. Also, see the menu bar entries related to window management, which replicates these same functions but can be bound to keys in the system settings.

by wtetzner6 hours ago|

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> Hover over the green button in the top left of the window.

Weirdly it still doesn't quite do what I want. It leaves a gap around the edge of the window for some reason.

by zadikian18 hours ago|

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Option-clicking the green button maximizes it similarly to Windows, rather than going fullscreen. I never used fullscreen just because of the slow animation it used, and now it makes even less sense on my new MacBook with the notch. It basically replaces the menu bar with a blank bar.

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by mjcohen1 days ago|

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Damn. Never knew that. TIL

by Brajeshwar21 hours ago|

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I will wait for you to discover these Keyboard Shortcuts - Press the `fn + ^` (that globe key + control) and then try `c`, `f`, and all of the four arrow keys.

by markdown20 hours ago|

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by JSR_FDED19 hours ago|

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Don't be a child

by zdragnar18 hours ago|

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Vulgarity aside, I can sympathize. For years I've been told by designers that discoverability and intuitive interacting patterns are so important, yet every aspect of modern design focuses so much on minimizing "distractions" that features go undiscovered. We get forced into suboptimal workflows and usage patterns because everything gets over-fitted to the lowest common denominator.

This is the biggest reason I love Linux. I can choose my own desktop, or even forsake the desktop entirely for a simpler window manager, without changing operating systems. Some are hyper focused on a tailored experience (gnome) while others let you configure to your heart's content (kde).

There's sacrifices to be made, of course, but not having to live under the oppression of Apple's beneficiary dictator designers is absolutely worth it for me.

by markdown14 hours ago|

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This, exactly.

Every MacOS app has a menu item explicitly made for this exact thing. It's often the third item in the menu:

    File    Edit   View

But they refuse to put these viewing options under the View menu item. Why? Why would you not put these really great viewing options under View?

by saagarjha13 hours ago|

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It's under the Window menu?

by girvo1 days ago|

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I’m pretty sure it does? I haven’t installed anything and it has the ability to do half and some other layouts through the window menu and snapping IIRC

by pc861 days ago|

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I can't speak to the quarters but you absolutely can snap windows to the left and right halves in MacOS.

by dionian22 hours ago|

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i do quarters all the time. it used to be with third party apps. iu think its native now

by Bengalilol22 hours ago|

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You can hold the 'option' key while dragging a window in order to set it in mosaic mode (you may need to activate the mode in Settings > Finder and Dock > Windows)

by inventor777722 hours ago|

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I'm pretty sure Tahoe added that behavior natively. I personally use Magnet on Sequoia, however, so I am not 100% certain.

by jen2020 hours ago|

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This was added as built-in functionality in Sequoia, not Tahoe. Personally I still use Magnet, which has worked well for over a decade and has a few more options.

by nine_k1 days ago|

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I constantly stretch windows to maximum height.

I maximize windows of graphics and video editors.

by wingmanjd1 days ago|

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I just installed Kubuntu last week so I could get the additional shift-drag targets to split my 34" ultrawide into 3 sections, or bump to the edges for the half filled.

by cluckindan1 days ago|

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Install i3wm, it will change your life.

by hombre_fatal1 days ago|

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Something I realized after spending a few months in sway (i3) and then niri is that I only care about a few windows (code editor, terminal, browser, apps I use moment to moment).

All the rest I'd prefer to just summon as-needed and then dismiss without navigating away from the windows I care about.

sway/niri want me to tile every window into some top-level spot.

Took me a while to admit it, but the usual Windows/macOS/DE "stacking" method is what I want + a few hotkeys to arrange the few windows I care about.

by aquariusDue1 hours ago|

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Yeah, I came to the same conclusion a few months back. Sadly I had to ditch KDE for GNOME due to an issue[0] specific to NixOS but after going through the gauntlet of tiling window managers and PaperWM/Niri over the years I've also settled on a traditional DE.

[0]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/126590

by yepguy20 hours ago|

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I'm surprised to hear that niri didn't work for you, I feel like it's a really good middle ground between tiling and floating window managers. It handles a lot of window resizing and arranging for me, without being too rigid. Windows can have any width they need without having to evenly divide my monitor.

by opan20 hours ago|

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In sway, put the lower priority windows in another workspace, or the scratchpad, or in tabs/stacks. You can bind keys to focus specific programs by their appid/class also, so even if they're on another workspace or monitor it'll jump right there.

It sounds like the scratchpad may be especially close to what you want.

by cluckindan9 hours ago|

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Maybe awesome-wm would be better for you then.

by setopt1 days ago|

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I’m currently using Krohnkite [1] to get dynamic tiling in KDE, and Klassy [2] to get i3wm-like pixel borders instead of full window decorations.

[1]: https://github.com/esjeon/krohnkite [2]: https://github.com/paulmcauley/klassy