New to macOS - Help! Trying to do keep the 'SplitView' state after restart/bootup

[aweyrich]

I am new to MACOS so forgive me (Windows person). I trying to use 'SplitView' in macOS where you can put two application windows side by side.


This feature: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204948


And I am successful in doing this in a big 27" 4k monitor that I have..... by holding down the green maximize button until the application becomes smaller and then snapping each one left and right respectfully.


So I can do this - but I want to do this with two web browsers where when the mac shuts down and then restarts - the two web browsers are still there in the same place side by side. I have the two web browsers set to launch automatically in the mac preferences upon login and they do - however they never open side by side in the split view state that I left them in. When the mac boots back up - both web browsers launch but only one browser fills the screen but I want both to launch side by side upon booting up the mac. One is minimized and the other fills the whole screen.


I am attaching two screenshots - the first one showing how I leave my mac before I shut down - in the split view state: https://www.mac-help.com/threads/ne...-after-bootup.226556/#lg=post-1561746&slide=0


And the second is what it looks like when it boots back up (out of split view state and into one of the two browsers full screen): https://www.mac-help.com/threads/ne...-after-bootup.226556/#lg=post-1561746&slide=1


How do I keep that side by side splitview when the two browsers launch automatically upon bootup?


You can do this in Windows - so I figured you could do it in macOS? The browsers I am trying it with are Safari and Chrome. But they are not staying side by side after bootup!


Andrew

 

[appltech]

The short answer is - you can’t do that on Mac yet, unfortunately. SplitView will persist if you put your Mac to sleep and then wake it up, but definitely not after rebooting it. The feature that you’re interested in is available on tmux terminal multiplexer rather than GNU screen. Tmux automatically saves the environment every 15 minutes and restores it when the computer is on.
If you do decide to use tmux instead of GNU, you’ll need to put in this into the terminal to activate automatic restoration:
set -g @continuum-restore 'on' in .tmux.conf
I also highly recommend installing the plugin manager. Go to .tmux.conf and add plugin to the list of TPM plugins:
set -g @pLugiN 'tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect'
set -g @pLugiN 'tmux-plugins/tmux-continuum'
After that just press prefix + I for the plugin to start working.
You can get support for tmux on their github page.
Alternatively, you can try Mac applications such as Mosaic (I use this one). Mosaic will actually allow you to have more than two windows open at the same time. It also allows window management across multiple screens.
Hope this helps!

 

[aweyrich]

Thank you! That is incredibly helpful. I will consider just putting it to sleep instead of just shutting down.