switching between windows on a mac

bwana said:
You too? I've always preferred to maximise windows rather than go full screen.
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Yup hate it. Has never made sense to me.

Hate it most when YouTube and the like force it on you and it confuses the entire issue.
 
Speedster said:
Green button puts the tab on it's own desktop. 3 finger left and right swipe switches desktops
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More like creates a new full screen desktop.

If it just put it on another desktop it wouldn’t need to be full screen it would just move the window to a new desktop.

A seemingly minor difference, but an entirely different workflow.
 
margincall said:
I understand.

I just have one thing to fix. How do I prevent the app from going to a new desktop when I make it full screen? That way I can see the app tiled on the desktop with Mission Control.
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You don’t.

That’s how it works by design.

Full screen creates a new desktop dedicated to each app.
 
margincall said:
That's not true full screen. It stops at the dock. I guess I'm going to have to make the dock smaller to get more screen room.

For now that's my strategy. Mission Control as a Hot Corner Shortcut.
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You can’t have your cake and eat it.

Hide the Dock and DO NOT use full screen then it will do what you want.
 
bwana said:
Modal?

You can change the behaviour of the green button, to maximise the window rather than full screen the app, by holding the option key down while clicking on it.
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It was a question, I don't Mac these days.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Yup hate it. Has never made sense to me.

Hate it most when YouTube and the like force it on you and it confuses the entire issue.
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Is there a way to change the default behaviour of the button so it maximises rather than full-screens?

I'm aware I made full-screen into a verb and I'll have to live with that choice. ​
 
bwana said:
Is there a way to change the default behaviour of the button so it maximises rather than full-screens?

I'm aware I made full-screen into a verb and I'll have to live with that choice. ​
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Somebody said double click on the window title bar to maximise without full screen.
 
Mac is weird. There does not seem to be a way to maximise any window to the height of the dock. You have to fit the window to the dock yourself.
 
bwana said:
Is there a way to change the default behaviour of the button so it maximises rather than full-screens?

I'm aware I made full-screen into a verb and I'll have to live with that choice. ​
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Don’t think so.

It’s why I have Magnet installed literally for that one shortcut.

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Maybe possible with a Shortcut change.
 
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margincall said:
Mac is weird. There does not seem to be a way to maximise any window to the height of the dock. You have to fit the window to the dock yourself.
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I don’t understand what you mean.

If the Dock is set to hide the window will go to the edge and the Dock will overlap.

If it’s not set to hide then the window will maximise to the top edge of the dock (if at the bottom) so you don’t have overlap, for obvious reasons.
 
SauRoNZA said:
I don’t understand what you mean.

If the Dock is set to hide the window will go to the edge and the Dock will overlap.

If it’s not set to hide then the window will maximise to the top edge of the dock (if at the bottom) so you don’t have overlap, for obvious reasons.
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When you maximise a window, it maximises to the largest size you had previously.
It does not maximise, by default, to the edge of the dock.
 
margincall said:
When you maximise a window, it maximises to the largest size you had previously.
It does not maximise, by default, to the edge of the dock.
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Hmm, possible although I don’t remember that being the case.

macOS by default will fit the window to the existing maximum of its context and not use any more space than it needs to.

You can try Magnet to address this (paid but cheap on the AppStore) or get Tiles for free online that does similar.

Magnet – Window manager for Mac

magnet.crowdcafe.com magnet.crowdcafe.com

Tiles - Home

Tiles by Sempliva
www.sempliva.com

Then you can also snap windows left and right or in quarters etc like Windows quite easily.
 
i've got mine set up to use stage manager on the left, but i maximise my app with the double-click on the title bar (not the green button or f11). i swipe up to show all and then click what i'm looking for, or i move the pointer to the left to show the stage manager thing and click a window, or if i'm switching quickly, then i use cmd+tab to swap to a different app, or cmd+` (backtick) to swap to a different window in the same app. my dock is set smaller and automatically hides.

i also have a second desktop area thing where i put my testing browsers and first desktop area is for the code. i used to be all about the mouse on my dell, then because i didn't have a usb-c to usb-uhhhh-old adapter, i couldn't use my wireless mouse for a bit, so i just used the trackpad. i now have the adapter, but i've only used my mouse once to test a game and once to open a can of whoop-ass on a coworked in minesweeper in a teams meeting. :) when i switched back to my old dell to test something there, using the trackpad on the dell was the most awful experience i've ever had. why are other laptop trackpads so bad? do they just not care? or do they just assume everyone travels with a mouse?
 
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