Window management refers to software that controls the placement, layout, and appearance of various windows on OS X.
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What Window Management Options exist for OS X?
I'd like to do something with my windows on OS X, where something includes options like re-arranging, moving, re-sizing, remembering positions, cloning across Spaces, etc. What options exist?
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Best app to switch between all open windows (alternatives to Witch)
After 4 years of being a Mac user, there is only one thing that I still miss from the Windows world, and that is being able to switch with a single keystroke between all open windows in the computer.
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Do any window managers allow me to snap windows to the sides of the display?
Can you recommend a Window Manager for the Mac? I would like to have a keyboard shortcut that would snap a windows to the left or right half of my screen.
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How do you maximize windows?
Unlike Windows, you cannot maximize a window in Mac with a click of the button. The little green (+) button next to the red and yellow buttons at the left of the windows does some strange stuff ...
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How would I make a keyboard shortcut to *maximize* the current window?
I love using the keyboard in Windows. It's an integrated part of the OS, and it feels like it; nearly every mouse action has a keyboard equivalent.
However, as I am starting to use Macs more and ...
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Window management app on mac os x?
I currently use "Stay," and have tried other tools (haven't really loved any of them), but I am looking for a window management tool that does the following:
Store my window locations
Have a ...
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Lion opens lots of windows automatically after a restart. How can I stop that?
Lion opens lots of windows automatically after a restart. How can I stop that?
It's very annoying.
Is there a way to stop this?
I found an option in System Preferences ("Restore windows when ...
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Move windows around a desktop — and to different desktops — using only the keyboard?
Here's what I'm trying to accomplish using only a keyboard:
Move a window to different areas/corners of a desktop
Move a window to different desktops
Set/unset a window as shown/sticky on all ...
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Can Spaces be configured by project, rather than by application?
Spaces seems to give you a choice of having a given software application open in a single space or in all spaces. Is there a way to configure Spaces to so that each space is devoted to a particular ...
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Can RedQuits be made to work with Chrome and OS X?
I am used to RedQuits as I like Chrome to behave the same way under different OSes (i.e. closing last window quits application), but I can't make it work on a new iMac with Lion. Others have similar ...
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What is the button in the upper right of windows?
Some Mac applications have this button in the upper right. What is it called? Is there a keyboard shortcut for it?
In the case of MacVim, the button toggles the toolbar of colorful icons you see on ...
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How to change Cmd+Tab on OS X to make it behave like on Windows or Linux? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Best app to switch between all open windows (Witch alternatives)
I'm looking for a way of making the window switching behave more like on Windows, to switch to last open ...
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How can I disable rounded window corners in OS X
Is there any way that the rounded window corners can be disabled in OS X Lion (10.7.3) ?
Update: It's the bottom two corners that I have problem with as they show up even in full screen mode.
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How to make Chrome open a new window for external Links
As some people might know, the default behavior for external links of Google Chrome is quite bad. I'm using Spaces, and opening a link in some application outside of Google Chrome while being on a ...
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How to make terminals open side-by-side?
I use terminals a lot, and I frequently open and close them. The problem is that whenever I open a new terminal using ⌘+n it overlaps the current one, and I have to move it out of the way first. ...
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Alternative way to move windows around screen
In X (Xfree86 on Linux or UNIX) I could move a window around the screen by holding down a modifier key (the CTRL key if memory serves me correctly) and move a window around the screen by dragging it ...
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How to expand windows fully?
When I click the green plus icon in any window, I would like it to expand to the full size of my monitor, instead of having to drag the corner of the screen.
I have seen paid ($10+) tools that do ...
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How I can unminimize windows from an application using a key combination?
Coming from the Windows world, I was initially used to using Cmd-Tab to switch between open windows. On OS X this switches between applications, so I had to learn to use Ctrl-` to switch between ...
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How do I prevent my Mac from opening so many windows every time I restart?
I have to restart my Mac all the time because I'm using Boot Camp and switching in between Windows 8 and OS X. Every time I restart and come back to OS X, my screen gets flooded with open windows, ...
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Window out of visible workspace range / unreachable
I'm running OS X Lion on a MacBook Air 11", and when I unplug my secondary display, some windows (e.g., Finder) are overflowing at the edge of the screen.
This usually happens on the right-hand side ...
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Where did the command-backtick keyboard shortcut go in 10.7 Lion?
With every Mac OS X I've ever used, hitting command-backtick (`) cycled to the next window. I just installed Mac OS X 10.7 (on top of a perfectly fresh 10.6), and command-backtick does nothing at ...
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Resizing/moving windows with keypress and mouse in Mac OS X
A few years ago I remember a friend using an application in Ubuntu that made window management extremely easy. If you wanted to move the active window, you would press a key and drag the window by ...
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Remembering window position/size
At work, I have a 27" iMac with a 2560 x 1440 display. I have my windows all laid out as I like them.
On Fridays, I telecommute, using my Macbook Pro (1440 x 900) to connect to my work iMac using ...
