Questions tagged [window-manager]
Window management refers to software that controls the placement, layout, and appearance of various windows on OS X.
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Show hidden application window on dock icon click
I have three screens and use multiple Safari windows. Often times I have one window open on my side screen & one on my main one. When I minimize Safari on the main screen clicking at the dock icon ...
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Catalina - Window menu shows all Finder windows tabs instead of current window tabs
I had to do the update to MacOS Catalina because of freezes following high sierra security update 2020-002
One of the problems i have now with Catalina has to do with Finder Window menu
Let's say ...
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How do I force lingering Preview windows to close?
Recently after quitting Preview, I have a few windows from Preview that remain open, and provide no normal way to close them (Cmd-W does't work, and the close button is disabled). The only thing I can ...
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cycle windows in current space, version Catalina
This functionality is the same as this one
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The given: In the current desktop there is one terminal and Safari open, and in another desktop there is another terminal window. Desired is to ...
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“Move focus to next window” short cut toggling window order if I interact with a window
There is a very convenient keyboard short cut to go through all windows opened by the same application. For me (but it is not the same for everyone) it is Ctrl < to flip through the window in one ...
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Is there any way to make a window transparent macOS Mojave?
I liked the feature in Linux where you could simply turn a window transparent. I also had an app for Windows that did it, called Peek Through that did it. I finally came back to macOS and now I want a ...
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Is it possible to set opening certain apps such as Safari, iWork, MS Office in the full Window mode by default like Mail App (macOS Catalina)?
The only App I can set opening in the full window is Apple's Mail App - it can be set in the App setting. I suppose other application could be set via terminal commands, but I'm not that handy with ...
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Is there a way to automatically maximize a window when dragging it to an external monitor?
I can do it with a shortcut, but looking for a fully automated way.
Does Mission Control or macOS allow this?
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Can I snap windows to fill 1/4 of the screen like in Windows?
I know you can 'pin' two windows left/right on Mac through the full-screen option but is there no simple shortcut like on Windows, to resize/move just the current window top/left and bottom/right? In ...
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Keyboard shortcut to partition screen
I've recently started using a Macbook on a new job (macOS 10.15), coming from a Windows 10, and then more a Ubuntu background.
A feature that both Windows 10 and Ubuntu had was the ability to have ...
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Remap ESC to Option-ESC in Office (Excel, Word, etc) with karabiner-elements
When I am using Safari in full screen, and I press ESC key it's minimized. So that's why I started using karabiner-elements.
I install it, I use the first option in this page and the problem is ...
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Any way to save/manage finder states? Not just the windows, but their location and layout too?
I'd like to be able to hit a hotkey and load a saved state of the finder. Not just the window locations and size, but also their location, layout, (history?).
There seem to be many solutions for ...
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Applescript activate not making the application fully active
I'm writing a script for an application that does not support scripting. This is a proprietary app that I'm stuck with, so there's no alternative for me. The problem I'm having is this app does not ...
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Hiding specific window (Enhanced Command+H)
Is there a way, native or third party tool, to hide a specific window instead of all Application Windows, which is the current behavior of all macOS versions.
For example, when opening multiple ...
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Mac Os 10.13.6 started to reopen all previously opened windows of various applications
I use VSCode as my main text editor, and Sublime Text 3 also.
I don't know what happened, but today my OS decided to show me all ever opened windows of my text editors when I start them from command ...
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Keyboard shortcut to decrease size of window?
I am trying to decrease the size of a given window, vertically. I have to manually hover over the top edge of the window, wait for the double arrow to show up, then pull down.
Very annoying and time-...
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How to add a confirmation prompt window to warn before closing a window for any application?
This is about adding a Warn-Before-Closing Confirmation Dialog Window to all application windows in macOS before closing a window.
How do I add a Confirmation Dialog Window when I click the Red X ...
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Is it possible to disable the Command+Tab switcher while in a specific application only?
I using an RDPish client (Teradici PCoIP) and I would like for Command+Tab to activate the remote desktop's window switcher instead of my local one when I am in that program. Is there a way to tell my ...
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Windows won't maximize on multiple monitor setup
I have two external monitors connected to my macbook and the dock is on the very leftmost monitor. The non-dock monitor seems to think it has the dock because it will not allow me to expand windows ...
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Stop hiding symbols on close, minimize and maximize window icons
On Mac, we have 3 circles:
red : close
yellow : minimize
green: maximize
but the symbols on them are visible only on a mouse over event.
How could I make these symbols to be always visible?
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How to keep the dock on top of all windows? (I don't want windows to be smaller because of Dock) [duplicate]
How to keep the dock on top of all windows? (I don't want windows to be smaller because of the dock when the dock is visible)
I don't want to hide the dock. I don't want to place it to the left or ...
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Pin an Application to the screen
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Is there any way to pin an application on to the screen in macOS?
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I am looking for a way to pin an application to the screen. I mostly work on two external displays and I ...
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Is it possible to keep a MacOS application window “Always in the Back”?
There seems to exist options for keeping MacOS application windows 'Always on Top'.
But is it possible via some method (e.g. a third party utility) to set an application window to be 'Always in the ...
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How can I change colors for the minimise / close / maximise controls in the titlebar on macOS?
Is there any way to change the colors? I have already disabled SIP and downloaded ThemeEngine, but it doesn't want to save my changes anyway. It says that I don't have enough permissions, even after ...
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How to see all windows of an application within a space?
I am a fan of the exposé feature in Mac. I work in multiple spaces dedicated to each for respective projects.
However, I would want to see all windows belonging to a particular application on that ...
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How to Hide and show an app via a single shortcut?
I'd like to show & give focus to and hide an app using a single shortcut. The app (or apps) i like to use this way do not natively support this on their own. Is this possible on macOS (10.15 in my ...
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Zulip desktop app has “no available windows”
I have the Zulip desktop app installed on Mojave 10.14.6, and I often cannot open any Zulip windows. When I right-click on the Zulip icon in the dock and select "show all windows", I just see the ...
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Music in Catalina doesn’t remember window size
Each time I open the Music app in macOS Catalina (10.15.1), the window size is set to maximum. I then have to rescale it down to fit my use case. But after it’s been quit and reopened, it is again ...
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Automatically put maximized window to first workspace
is there any way to automatically put maximized window to first workspace instead of last? I'd rather use it that way.
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Keyboard shortcut to switch focus between the two split windows of the same app in full-screen
What is the keyboard shortcut to switch focus between the split windows of the same app (not between all the windows, only the 2 split ones)?
⌘ + ↹ works only if you switch back from one split window ...
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Maximize window shortcut
What is the keyboard shortcut to maximize a window on OSX? I'd like to know the shortcut that is equivalent to double clicking on the window title. I do not want to make the window full screen.
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Maximise to half screen and choose other window
I might have imagined it but I think I just did something to maximise a window to half fullscreen on a new desktop and then was presented windows to show on the other half, very much like windows does....
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Mac is stuck in some kind of automatic layout windowing mode
My mac has suddenly stopped letting me freely move around my application windows around the screen, and its just allowing them to be shown in a grid view. If i try resizing windows, they just get ...
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macOS Mojave disable all 4 rounded window corners either with defaults, or software, or programatically
Is there a system API, or utility (open source), or default I can set to disable all 4 rounded window corners on macOS?
I've checked the two other prominent questions relating to this:
Can I change ...
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“Float on top” in all windows
Specific apps have an option under Window->Float on Top which allows this kind of behavior:
The problem is that I'd like to achieve this on all windows. Specifically I'd like to choose specific ...
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Make mousing over a new window or screen change the focus to that window? [duplicate]
I have a multi-monitor set up with my Macbook Pro. Frequently, when I move my mouse from one monitor to another, I'll assume I'm now working in the window my mouse is over, but find myself typing and ...
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prevent resizing with option key
Hardware: Macbook Pro 2017 (15")
OS: MacBook Mojave 10.14.6
While using iTerm, I noticed, I could not use alt/option commands with direction keys as I would on my Macbook Pro 2015. This prevents me ...
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Cycle application windows changed in recent update (2019)
I am used to pressing CMD+ ` on my mac to cycle through windows of the same application.
In recent updates, I am not sure if this was when updating to Mojave, maybe later, maybe before, this ...
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Is it possible to make an application’s window smaller than intended?
I’ve always had issues with some application windows in macOS where I can’t make them smaller than a certain amount.
Audio Midi Setup is the perfect example of this.
If you look at the image posted, ...
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Tile *Previous* Window Side-by-Side with Current
I'm well aware of Moom, BetterTouchTool, BetterSnapTool, Divvy, and Spectacle, and have thoroughly read this question's answers.
I don't think any of the above can:
with one keyboard stroke, tile ...
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Mail app opens randomly in MacOS 10.14.5 [duplicate]
I have mail app open in background i.e. no window open. A new window randomly pops up without any conscious trigger by me. No new mail would have come.
Once it happened while I was in full screen ...
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Starting VLC from command line always puts the window behind other windows
If I start VLC from Finder, the windows shows up on top. But if I start VLC from the command line using vlc command (using either Terminal or iTerm2), the VLC window is never shows up on top. I have ...
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How can I improve the positioning of new windows?
Is there a setting to improve the positioning of new application windows?
I'm not looking to specify the location of a window and have it open there every time. I'd much rather have an improved ...
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Use Command + Tab to view a minimized application window
Maybe it's related to this question, but when I use command + tab to cycle through open applications, if a leave the selection on an application that is minimized, I can select it, but it doesn't ...
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macOS: Unable to resize/move app window, title bar stuck underneath Menu bar [duplicate]
I installed Firefox on my Mac. The problem is that upon launching it, the title bar of the window appears stuck below the macOS Menu bar and hence is inaccessible.
I tried to zoom in and out, but it ...
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macOS: How to keep an app and its new windows/dialogs always hidden?
I am running a 3rd party app on my Mac that spawns new small in-app windows/dialogs/popups almost every 3 seconds, to show the progress of a specific command. These windows are closed automatically by ...
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macOS: Safari: Full screen mode: bringing focus to address bar in a new window
When we open a new tab in Safari, it automatically brings focus to the address bar. But in full screen mode, after pressing alt-cmd-N(or the private mode counterpart), the new window that opens is ...
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How to split app screen on my Mac?
I can reduce the size of pages to make multiple of them fit on my screen, but then they are never oriented properly :( Is there a way to actually split my screen as a command on my MacBook Air? I ...
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move focus to next window for current app in another desktop macOS Mojave
If I have two windows for an app in the same desktop/workspace/space, then the move focus to next window shortcut moves focus between them. If the windows are in different desktops, focus is not ...
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Keyboard shortcut to go to previous window
I use two monitors.
On monitor A I have:
Chrome window
On monitor B I have:
Chrome window
Text editor window
Let's say I view the Chrome window on monitor A, and then Text editor window on ...
