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bobthepandayesterday at 8:45 PM5 repliesview on HN

While I don't maximize anything on a monitor that wide, I do appreciate Window's snap to half/quarter functionality for monitors that wide, and I wish Mac had the same ability natively.


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drivers99yesterday at 9:16 PM

> I wish Mac had the same ability natively

Hover over the green button in the top left of the window. I recently found out about that menu for moving a window between screens, which is also an option it has. (I also just found them in the Window menu if you prefer that. I dont; the options take an extra level of hovering to get to.)

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girvoyesterday at 9:05 PM

I’m pretty sure it does? I haven’t installed anything and it has the ability to do half and some other layouts through the window menu and snapping IIRC

pc86yesterday at 9:10 PM

I can't speak to the quarters but you absolutely can snap windows to the left and right halves in MacOS.

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Bengaliloltoday at 12:06 AM

You can hold the 'option' key while dragging a window in order to set it in mosaic mode (you may need to activate the mode in Settings > Finder and Dock > Windows)

inventor7777today at 12:18 AM

I'm pretty sure Tahoe added that behavior natively. I personally use Magnet on Sequoia, however, so I am not 100% certain.

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