All I want is for windows to remember their positions when external monitors are connected. MacOS used to do this really well, then it all fell apart at some point.
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macOS Sequoia: How Window Tiling and Snapping Currently Works
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So glad you can remove that margin between tiled windows. When I saw the demo in the keynote my first thought was Ewwww! who would want gaps between their tiled windows. That totally defeats the point! Glad Apple realized some people wouldn't like that!
YES. I have 3 external monitors that I use every day for work and it is infuriating to have to rearrange my windows every time my laptop goes to sleep. This only started being a major issue after upgrading to Sonoma so it wasn't always this way. I really hope they fix this.
Shake to minimise all other windows still slaps on Windows tbf
I think the app switcher (cmd-tab) is the most efficient way to navigate around overall in that it only list open apps and not every window. This make it super quick to navigate where one want as it's easier to think in apps and find the icon in the bar than finding the right window.
While I think Mission Control/Exposé is a nice feature I don't use it that often. Have the app switcher mapped to the scroll wheel button of my mouse with the software SteerMouse. Been like that for years and I'm very used to it.
Just my opinion...
I'll be very happy to disable this feature right away.
As a previous Windows user, snapping windows is incredibly annoying when you're just trying to move them to where you'd like them to be.
I'd probably use the buttons as part of the long click in the stoplight, but I don't want windows snapping. I was going to say especially on a laptop sized screen, but I feel like I'd like it even less on an XDR or iMac.
As a previous Windows user, snapping windows is incredibly annoying when you're just trying to move them to where you'd like them to be.
I'd probably use the buttons as part of the long click in the stoplight, but I don't want windows snapping. I was going to say especially on a laptop sized screen, but I feel like I'd like it even less on an XDR or iMac.
Welcome!
I'm a big Spaces + Expose + Magic Trackpad user. I have the Space by rough function:
1: Email.
2: Web.
3: Media (Youtube, Music, Streaming, etc).
4: Virtual Machines and Emulation./ Gaming.
5: General misc workspace (Design, video / audio editing, writing, etc).
I heavily use Command + Tab (and even Command ~) as well, especially if I know I want to go back to an app or window that I was just in—that's much faster than Spaces/Expose. The app switcher is also a quick way to see if you have any alerts on apps like Messages, without looking at the Dock (especially if you have the Dock hidden).I think the app switcher (cmd-tab) is the most efficient way to navigate around overall in that it only list open apps and not every window. This make it super quick to navigate where one want as it's easier to think in apps and find the icon in the bar than finding the right window.
While I think Mission Control/Exposé is a nice feature I don't use it that often. Have the app switcher mapped to the scroll wheel button of my mouse with the software SteerMouse. Been like that for years and I'm very used to it.
Just my opinion...
It was added in Sierra, so it was available as of September 20, 2016. It guess around 7.5 years is quite a while but, like you, I've been using OS X for several decades.
This is such an interesting observation, and reminds me a little of how people who weren't born for the "classic" seasons of The Simpsons sometimes say that the more recent shows are better.
I've been using Macs since 2003, and even that is just a brief wink of time compared to others around here. But there are also hundreds of thousands, of not millions of Mac users, who started using them last year, or a few years ago.
These people care not about how things used to work.
I think I’m the only person that doesn’t want this. I hate snapping and tiling on Windows. I want my windows to stay exactly where I put them.
I mean I’m happy for everyone else but I just don’t understand this.
I mean I’m happy for everyone else but I just don’t understand this.
Sequoia brings in something else I always wanted other than window tiling, which Linux always had, the ability to keep a window always on top, atm at least the Calculator. 👌 👍
Yes. I wish they'd spend more time on fixing things which don't work (like this, and not switching to space automatically when the preference says not to).
For me window tiling and snapping is yet another "feature" to be turned off. Glad to see some want it.
It’s has bugs but I’m sure they’ll be fixed. The bigger problem for me is that it only does screen halves or quarters. On a large screen I’d like sixths.
It depends on what you’re doing and your workflow. When working with multiple spreadsheets and Word Docs, expose is nowhere near as useful as cascading windows IMO. I can quickly navigate full size windows and know exactly where each one is at all times whereas with Expose, the location of windows changes each time I make add/close windows.
Oh good, at least there's an off switch.
I absolutely DESPISE windows jerking around on their own. If I couldn't turn this horribleness off it would be the straw that broke the camel's back, I'd be switching to Linux as my primary OS.
I honestly can't understand why anybody would want this misbehavior.
I absolutely DESPISE windows jerking around on their own. If I couldn't turn this horribleness off it would be the straw that broke the camel's back, I'd be switching to Linux as my primary OS.
I honestly can't understand why anybody would want this misbehavior.
Ok sorry I thought it was in Sonoma, that’s good news that it’s coming!
So why whinge if it's something you wanted and it's now there?
15 years waiting... well now it's done.
People are just never happy.
Honestly, if Apple made iPads run MacOS some way, the majority would still complain...
In the Feedback Assistant, there are emails from Apple on each of the Beta OSs. It's always better to read them. I didn't in my haste, and I had a battery drain, heat and fan noise sometimes. Today, I read the macOS email, and changed the Sequoia wallpaper back to Sonoma, and that problem was solved for now, the MBP went back to its normal coolness. 😊👍
(I have a 15" 2018 Intel MBP)
(I have a 15" 2018 Intel MBP)
That’s like saying someone shouldn’t complain because it got done eventually. Like a train is late by 16 hours but as long as it got you there… why complain.
Complaints are legitimate, it’s not whining.
Would you say the same thing if it was a life saving medicine. That was only available just as you were passing away? 😂
