![]() My goal with this series of posts is to help those struggling with similar issues find a solution. Welcome to the World of Duh, a blog series in which I talk about something new to me in an informal, unresearched, and often factually inaccurate way. 1.6 is labeled 'dev', but swallow your fear and be brave, and download the dev version so you can switch monitors painlessly. Version 1.6 introduced the ability to move a window to another monitor. move window to the other monitor, assuming I have two monitors availableīasically, it solves the "How do I move this window" problem in a way familiar to my Windows-thinking brain.move window to left/right half of the screen (I do this a lot with the Chrome Developer Tools window). ![]() ShiftIt assigns global hotkeys to common window resize/move tasks such as: Oops, I haven't even mentioned what ShiftIt does yet. In a fit of hilarity/incompetence/extreme unnecessary competence, I compiled my own version of shiftit before someone told me there's a downloads page. Note I am linking directly to the (now hidden) downloads page of the project. Some kind soul named 'fiknovik' on github is maintaining a perfectly good window management program called ShiftIt. ShiftIt to the rescue - moving/maximizing windows for Macs I won't belabor the point except to say that the details are here if you need them, and to say that this is a solved problem on Windows out-of-the-box. Windows 7 introduced keystrokes to maximize windows and move them from screen to screen. Stating for the record - Windows 7 is better out of the box ![]() I don't know you people and I don't know why you're all so bad at this.Īnyway it's driving me a little bit crazy. I know, I'll open a program on my Mac, that will give me at least a few minutes of downtime." Maybe this is how people take mental breaks-"I need a break. And it's like a minute later, and they're done. And the program really maximizes this time. Then they remember, move their cursor over to the green button again, look down at the keyboard, find the shift key, press and hold the shift key, and click on the button. ![]() Most people I watch using a Mac go through a short-to-medium length ritual of opening a program-finding their program on the dock (of course), moving their trackpad mouse cursor over to the 5px wide button, clicking the green one, then watching as the program slowly maximizes to fill part of the screen. Safari must have gotten complications of the diseased window syndrome because it will simply not maximize, I don't know, Safari hates us I guess. Macs have inherited the Windows disease of opening each new application in a tiny portion of the available space (maybe they're sharing needles, I don't know), and Macs have gone a little further in that they made their maximize button tiny, secretly gave it two modes of operation, and refused to assign a global hotkey to either maximize operation. Today we're here to talk about the problem of moving windows around. Moving windows on a Mac - describing the problem That kind of useless ranting is what Twitter is for. My first (and lasting) impression is that they removed the 6 most precious keys on the keyboard-Home, End, PgUp, PgDn, Del, Ins, and they did it because they hate me.īut we're not here to talk about how much pain I've endured attempting to mentally map the Mac equivalents of "skip word", "go to end of line", "go to beginning of the line", etc. I'm using a MacBook Pro on a day-to-day basis. Download ShiftIt, which helps you move/resize windows by assigning global hotkeys.
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