Move and resize windows in macOS using keyboard shortcuts or snap areas

Re:Move and resize windows in macOS using keyboard shortcuts... by ryannevius on Thursday March 17, 2022 @07:59AM (#30710159)

I'm a long-time user of Spectacle [1], but it's no longer maintained. Glad to see what looks to be a good alternative.

[1]: https://www.spectacleapp.com/

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Re:Move and resize windows in macOS using keyboard shortcuts... by s09dfhks on Thursday March 17, 2022 @10:15AM (#30711399)

Same! It still works just fine for me. Not sure why you’d need to switch unless apple kills whatever APIs it’s using

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Re:Move and resize windows in macOS using keyboard shortcuts... by adbachman on Thursday March 17, 2022 @11:40AM (#30712336)

Apple will kill the APIs.

If you haven't switched, Rectangle comes with a Spectacle compatibility mode so all the keyboard shortcuts and behaviors transfer. When I swapped out work machines a couple years ago I cut over and it was painless, fwiw.

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Re:Move and resize windows in macOS using keyboard shortcuts... by rxhanson on Thursday March 17, 2022 @11:55AM (#30712542)

Rectangle dev here, I wrote a post about this a while back [1].

TL;DR The APIs are the same between the two, but there is the potential of a security risk with Spectacle. Something I didn't mention in that post is that Rectangle technically should outperform Spectacle, although it might not be noticeable, as Spectacle loads a JavaScript engine to perform window size/pos calculations while everything in Rectangle is in Swift.

[1]: https://medium.com/ryan-hanson/why-switch-from-spectacle-to-...

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