Keyboard Warriors - how do you manage your open windows?

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Popped something up elsewhere, but curiosity/impatience is getting the better of me!... :p

I'm checking to see if there isn't something obvious I'm missing - and to hear if anyone else gets grumpy about this as well...

I have 3/4 applications that are almost always open, when I'm in work-mode.
In one of these, in particular - I might have anything between 10-20 windows open, spread across my 13"MBP, and 24" external.

I sometimes need to unplug.
When I get back, and connect the external again, everything is out of whack.

I have shortcuts set up through BetterTouchTool and BetterSnapTool - which works perfectly. Never saw the need to purchase Moom etc. on the MAS, since between those two FREE apps, my window management is covered.

BUT - I cannot find a way to trigger all the open windows at once...
As in, invoke App Exposé (or some magical shortcut I am unaware of), to select ALL the open windows of that particular Application, invoke BTT/BST to Maximise - and have it done to all of them simultaneously?

Is this possible?
It becomes very tedious very quickly having my OCD kick in, and having to jump through 5/10/15/20 windows, maximising all of them one by one -- even with a shortcut...

Anyone have the same issue? Or is it just me. Me with issues... ? :p
 
Are you on Mavericks? I never have that problem.
 
Sysem said:
Are you on Mavericks? I never have that problem.
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Yup - Mavericks.

So if you disconnect your external, and then re-connect, all your windows automatically return to how they were before?
None of them hanging around not maximised (alternatively, "maximised" according to a 13" screen)?? :wtf:

Just me then? Could be some settings my side...
 
Cassady said:
Yup - Mavericks.

So if you disconnect your external, and then re-connect, all your windows automatically return to how they were before?
None of them hanging around not maximised (alternatively, "maximised" according to a 13" screen)?? :wtf:

Just me then? Could be some settings my side...
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Yip, I'm on a 15" and a 24". All snap back perfectly
 
Sysem said:
Yip, I'm on a 15" and a 24". All snap back perfectly
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Aw shucks... If this is only my side, then the search for the 'settings-culprit' begins...

Below is a screegrab of what happens after I disconnect, and reconnect [Safari was obviously maximised before the disconnect]...

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try this:

1.Open the "System Preferences"
2.Under the "Hardware" section, click on "Keyboard"
3.Next, click on "Keyboard Shortcuts" then "Application Shortcuts" (on the left hand box)
4.Add a shortcut key by clicking on "+" symbol, on the bottom of the right hand box
5.At the next dialog box, choose "All Applications" for "Application:"
6.In the "Menu Title :" column, type in "Zoom"
7.Click on the next column, "Keyboard Shortcut:", then press your preferred keyboard shortcut.
E.g. Control + Option + Command + m

Now, open an application and try the new keyboard shortcut key. Press the first time for maximized and the second time to return the previous size.
 
zippy said:
try this:
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That's a very useful tip Zippy - but it still only works on a 'per window' basis? So you'd still only invoke it individually, for each open window? No way of doing it en masse/collectively?
 
Cassady said:
That's a very useful tip Zippy - but it still only works on a 'per window' basis? So you'd still only invoke it individually, for each open window? No way of doing it en masse/collectively?
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Maybe with macro's, but I have never had to do that. I usually open my Komodo editor on full screen mode on 1 desktop, have chrome, open on 1 desktop, Safari on another, Firefox on another, Terminal on another, SQL Developer on another. All maximised. That is usually the max app windows I have open. Command-tab, followed by ctrl-opt-cmd-m through windows is fast enough for me. Tbh, I think I have only ever wanted to restore 1 or 2. Usually one of the browsers and a terminal window on the same desktop so that I can tail -f a log file while clicking through my screwed up PHP code :)
 
Cassady said:
I wouldn't know -- the few times I tried to have 10/20 windows open in a single application, my Windows PC crashed... :whistle:


:D
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Buy a PC with the same specs as your Macbook then. Cause they dont crash unless there is a bad operator.
 
ghoti said:
Buy a PC with the same specs as your Macbook then. Cause they dont crash unless there is a bad operator.
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Electric said:
PEBCAK
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Wow. Did I just hit a nerve? So I respond in jest to the 1st person with a Windows chirp, who has jumped in to a topic in a Mac subforum, by suggesting that opening 10/20/30 windows in 1 application causes a crash - and your take on this must either be a.) an low-specced machine; or b.) PEBCAK/PICNIC?

Re the latter - how exactly does an user stuff--up opening too many windows? It can either be handled by the OS/Hardware, or it cannot.

Re the former - yes, I've never had the pleasure to work on an i7 16GB Windows laptop. All I know is that Win 7 32-bit Dell Optiplex i5 3GB desktop, didn't really match my (at the time) 4GB i5 MBP running OSX ML. Even if the specs were similar, I doubt whether the experience would have been the same. That's my take on it - most likely not yours.

Back to the topic - I know you can do it using the Task Manager in Win 7, which is why I came here, to check if there is something similar on OSX. Do either of you have anything to add in that regard?
 
Cassady said:
Wow. Did I just hit a nerve? So I respond in jest to the 1st person with a Windows chirp, who has jumped in to a topic in a Mac subforum, by suggesting that opening 10/20/30 windows in 1 application causes a crash - and your take on this must either be a.) an low-specced machine; or b.) PEBCAK/PICNIC?

Re the latter - how exactly does an user stuff--up opening too many windows? It can either be handled by the OS/Hardware, or it cannot.

Re the former - yes, I've never had the pleasure to work on an i7 16GB Windows laptop. All I know is that Win 7 32-bit Dell Optiplex i5 3GB desktop, didn't really match my (at the time) 4GB i5 MBP running OSX ML. Even if the specs were similar, I doubt whether the experience would have been the same. That's my take on it - most likely not yours.

Back to the topic - I know you can do it using the Task Manager in Win 7, which is why I came here, to check if there is something similar on OSX. Do either of you have anything to add in that regard?
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Had my MacBook, for over a year now. I'll never buy another "windows" laptop again. Dell, HP etc. all rubbish.

I run Windows 8.1 on my Macbook using Parallels. Works brilliantly.

Not being able to resize all windows at once is a small price to pay.
 
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