Re:The Mac Pro Lives
by georgespencer on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @11:07AM
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Not sure what specifically you're talking about here, but if you wanna line up two windows side-by-side you can long click on the green "full screen" traffic light button in the top left of an app's window (e.g. Word), and choose which half of the screen you want it to maximise in. Then do the same for another running app in the other half and it'll split the screen between two apps at full size.
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Re:The Mac Pro Lives
by coryfklein on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @11:53AM
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Okay, I just long clicked (5 seconds) on the green button and all it did is maximize the window. Tried long click + drag, didn't work. What am I missing?
I was in the same boat and after some Googling I found that you need to have "Displays have separate Spaces" checked in the Mission Control preferences. For some reason it requires you to log-out and back in after activating it, but afterwards I can indeed use split view as described.
I don't remember changing this setting, but it's always possible I did years ago. I have never been a big user of Spaces and somehow missed out knowing Split View was ever a thing, but it's actually pretty neat.
Here's the relevant Apple Support article
Works for me, long click, it resizes to left half horizontally, then when I release it fills vertically. On the right side is a collection of my other windows, I tap one and it fills the right side.
Alas, it's not resizing the windows, but creating some sort of new virtual desktop and sticking them in it.
Re:The Mac Pro Lives
by brazzledazzle on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @05:26PM
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That kind of turned me off buy maybe it's worth giving it another go.
This is true
This seems pretty cool. Looks like it gives you split DESKTOPS, which isn't quite the same. But I'll try it out. Thanks!