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Re:GNOME 44 by marcyb5st on Thursday March 23, 2023 @08:52AM (#35273945)
Not a GNOME user, but i3. The fact that on MacOS I can't put more than 2 windows side by side to tile the screen space drives me nuts. Sadly, it's a work laptop and can't install 3rd parties to have a similar UX as i3.
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Re:GNOME 44 by brightball on Thursday March 23, 2023 @08:54AM (#35273972)
Pop Shell extension will give you something close.
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Re:GNOME 44 by laurentlbm on Thursday March 23, 2023 @09:42AM (#35274661)
They were talking about MacOS, not GNOME.
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Re:GNOME 44 by dsego on Thursday March 23, 2023 @10:16AM (#35275172)
Not optimal but should be able to hover or option+hover on the green circle to tile or position windows side by side.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/work-with-app-windo...

There is rectangle, which has nice keyboard shortcuts, but it is a 3rd party addon.

https://rectangleapp.com/

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Re:GNOME 44 by wing-_-nuts on Thursday March 23, 2023 @10:55AM (#35275774)
This can be assigned a kb shortcut fyi. I'm currently using rectangle as well, but the built in tiling is ok if you just need a L/R split
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Re:GNOME 44 by beachwood23 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @10:23AM (#35275282)
I use the Magnet.app extension, which supports basic tiling commands on MacOS.
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Re:GNOME 44 by mFixman on Thursday March 23, 2023 @11:10AM (#35276051)
You can use BetterTouchTool and configure it to tile an arbitrary amount of windows. As a bonus those windows don't have to be in full-screen mode, so you can cmd-tab quickly.

I agree that the windowing system of MacOS is an unusable mess.

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Re:GNOME 44 by LeonenTheDK on Thursday March 23, 2023 @01:00PM (#35277719)
Something like i3 is all I want for productivity. I use Yabai but it's just not the same.
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