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In Windows 10, snapping with the mouse will work on every monitor, making it much easier to snap on multimonitor systems.
In Windows 7 and 8, dragging windows with the mouse only supports snapping at the extreme screen edges the internal edges between monitors don't "catch" the dragged windows (though the keyboard shortcuts can still be used to snap on all monitors). The Aero Snap feature introduced in Windows 7 that enables side-by-side docking of desktop windows is being made better on multi-monitor systems. Two improvements were demonstrated, and, in keeping with past work on Windows 10, they were designed to make the desktop experience better. This process has started already with the Windows 10 Technical Preview, and today at TechEd Europe in Barcelona, the company showed a few more small changes that will be coming soon. You can change the various keyboard shortcuts that allow you to snap the window to any side or corner of the screen as well as maximize the application window to fit your screen.One of the important consequences of Microsoft's new approach to updating Windows is that the company can deliver iterative, incremental improvements. A compiled version is available from the AppStore, versions for OS X 10.6 and 10.7 can be downloaded from the Spectacle GitHub site. I use Spectacle it's free and open-source. Take a look:Ĭinch also does the same thing, but it costs $7. You might not think of BetterTouchTool as being a window manager, but it has window snapping (as seen in Windows 7).
#OSX WINDOW SNAPPING FULL#
It will always expand windows on a full screen instead of strange resizing.Īnother one is BetterTouchTool.
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This free tool fixes an inconvenient behavior of green Zoom button in Mac OS X. RightZoom is what you want (scroll down to the bottom of the page or use this MacUpdate link) Maximize window to screen size: ⌥ + ⇧ + click on green icon.Resize window to it's content: ⌥ + click on green icon.There is no need to buy or hack something to do the following things:
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I tried it and it works on my MacBook Pro 13" Retina with Mac OS X Yosemite. I can maximize a window in both width and height to the current ⌥ + ⇧ + Click on green or outer right icon (plus