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0 pointskiwijamo1mo ago0 comments

Agreed. Even Windows has some nice stuff when it comes to windows management IMHO. Every time I end up on macOS I miss the various Windows/GNOME behaviours e.g. window snapping to the right/left half, pressing the Win key to see all open apps, maximise buttons that doesn't put the whole app into full screen mode, etc.

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terhechte1mo ago

I agree that macOS has become worse, however your examples don't really count:

Window snapping was implemented some time ago: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/12/macos-sequoia-window-ti...

Instead of win key, you can press F3, or just set a hotkey that works for you in the System Preferences

Instead of clicking the red maximize button, you can double-click the window header / title. This will use an algorithm to try to resize the window to the best size for its content.

msephton1mo ago

Option-click green button does window maximise (normal click does full-screen)

mouth1mo ago

Technically it’s zoom, and how it functions is dependent on the app. In Finder it used to resize the window to a size that contained all the icons. Clicking it again would revert the window size.

kiwijamoOP1mo ago

Ah I wish I knew that, thanks for the tip!

ed_mercer1mo ago

You can also hold ALT and press the green button to mazimze.

tom_1mo ago

The app still gets to decide though! Most programs do go full size with an alt+green click, but not all. A column-style Finder window, for example, seems to go taller but no wider.

StilesCrisis1mo ago

Maximize is green. (Any chance you might be color blind?)

wongogue1mo ago

Green is “Zoom window to fit content”, not Maximize.

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argsnd1mo ago

macOS gained window snapping last year, and you can bind some keyboard shortcut to the “exposé” view (which is triggered by a trackpad gesture by default)

full screen is still its own thing as you mention, though

Reason0771mo ago

The key binding for Exposé is just F3 on most keyboards!

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