![]() I learned about it from Thomas Reed’s Twitter feed on March 3, 2021: And it can’t be un-done (or at least I don’t know how) except manually, icon by plodding icon. In the “Rotten Easter Egg” category, one keyboard combo you should NOT try (which of course, I DID) is cmd-+, which will hose your meticulously arranged Desktop. And they may be documented, by Apple, somewhere, but not here: I won’t bother asking why, except that perhaps at some point in Apple Corp’s distant past, the windows development team had too much time on its hands. I know it’s not standard UNIX, but it’s fun.Īnd I wonder how these relatively obscure tricks got baked into the interface and when. It’s like the “say” command in Terminal, which I use to introduce users to the CLI. Seriously, anything that brings a smile to your face, after decades of thinking you’d seen it all as far as the Mac interface is concerned, has to have a certain amount of utility, if only in the, “Gee, I never knew it could do *that!*” category. So too did the option-drag resizings which Howard mentions above. I don’t know how useful it is–at most it saves a click or two–but it made me laugh out loud the first time I tried it. If you click-drag the title bar of a background window (i.e., not the “Active Window,” the one in front of all the others) while holding down the Command key, you can move the window without making it active. Maybe everyone already know this, but I didn’t learn of this little “Easter Egg” until recently, so here goes: Thanks to Simon and Javier for their additions. Some of these actions are reversible in the sense that, once you’ve zoomed a window out, you can repeat the same action to zoom it back in to its former size.Īnother generally useful trick is to Command-drag a background window, which lets you move it without bringing it to the front. This has been complicated by changes introduced in Big Sur. Of all these actions, those involving double-clicking in the title or tool bar are least consistent, and vary between different apps. in an app window title bar – zoom window fully without entering full-screen mode this is controlled in the Dock & Menu Bar pane, and can be changed to minimise if you prefer.in a window with a combined title and tool bar – zoom to full vertically in both directions and shrink to a minimum in the horizontal direction.at a corner – zoom to full by that corner, 2D Option- to zoom fully without entering full-screen mode.at an edge – zoom to full along that edge, 1D Option- zoom to full along both directions.The effect of drag resizing with the Option key held is to resize about the centre of the window. ![]() Shift-drag from an edge – resize keeping window aspect ratio constant and opposite edge static (2D).from a corner – resize by that corner (2D) Option- to resize in all 4 directions.from an edge – resize by that edge (1D) Option- to resize in both directions.Hover the pointer over the green control to display its menu, which also offers full-screen, and tile windows to right or left. Green – zoom window to full-screen mode Option- to zoom window fully without entering full-screen mode.Yellow – minimise window to Dock Option- to minimise all windows in that app.Red – close window Option- to close all windows in that app.Traffic light controls at the left of the title bar: The red lines mark the edges, the blue are corners (one feature which is actually clearer with Big Sur’s rounded corners), and the area tinted green is the combined title and tool bar seen in the Finder and some apps. They may not work with those apps which use their own custom windows, though.Īctive control areas in addition to the ‘traffic light’ controls are shown above. These apply mainly to ‘well-behaved’ apps which leave macOS to manage their windows. This brief article describes those that I know of I welcome any additional window actions which I have inadvertently omitted. Although some are arcane and perhaps of limited value, those controlling zooming and other actions on windows are well worth knowing, as they can save you time and effort. MacOS has many tools and controls which we rarely use.
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