Matt@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · edit-227 days agoTell one thing that you miss after switching from another OS to Linux.message-squaremessage-square460fedilinkarrow-up1217arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1208arrow-down1message-squareTell one thing that you miss after switching from another OS to Linux.Matt@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · edit-227 days agomessage-square460fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAtemu@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·27 days ago full screen takes over a whole desktop and creates it. It’s a whole new workspace just for putting an app in fullscreen and none of the shortcuts to jump to workspace x work with it of course. The rest of the WM can be made bearable but there’s no way around that stupid design choice.
minus-squarephoneymouse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·27 days agoCan you use a different extension/plugin?
minus-squareAtemu@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·27 days agoI’m not sure what you mean? It’s a basic feature of the macOS window manager. Pressing the fullscreen button on a window does all of this.
minus-squarephoneymouse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·26 days agoThere is a program in the Mac App Store called Magnet, could try that. I think there are some others.
minus-squareAtemu@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·26 days agoMagnet seems to be a window management shortcut thingy like rectangle but probably worse, costs money and likely to enshittify. It cannot influence how the macOS window manager works internally, it can only ask it to e.g. place a window in a certain location.
and creates it. It’s a whole new workspace just for putting an app in fullscreen and none of the shortcuts to jump to workspace x work with it of course.
The rest of the WM can be made bearable but there’s no way around that stupid design choice.
Can you use a different extension/plugin?
I’m not sure what you mean? It’s a basic feature of the macOS window manager. Pressing the fullscreen button on a window does all of this.
There is a program in the Mac App Store called Magnet, could try that. I think there are some others.
Magnet seems to be a window management shortcut thingy like rectangle but probably worse, costs money and likely to enshittify.
It cannot influence how the macOS window manager works internally, it can only ask it to e.g. place a window in a certain location.