Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?

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Rectangle

I'm the developer behind Rectangle. There are a handful of features in Rectangle that aren't in Magnet, like being able to repeat shortcuts to achieve different sizes/positions, and being able to modify a lot more of the behavior of the app (there are more settings, and there are terminal commands listed on the readme of the GitHub repo). The main draw is that Rectangle is FOSS, which comes with obvious benefit. Beyond that, Rectangle Pro (paid, closed source) is where I've put a ton more features. You can find Rectangle & Rectangle Pro at https://rectangleapp.com.

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yabai

I feel the same way. I would much prefer no animation at all, and an instant transition to another space. Apparently this is possible with [yabai](<a href="https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai">https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai</a>), but it requires disabling system integrity protection which I am personally uncomfortable with.

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Moom

I started with rectangle but now prefer moom. https://manytricks.com/moom/ It integrates in the way I would expect the native feature to work: hover the green button for a snapping palette.

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Magnet Window Manager

I use Magnet which is sweet. https://magnet.crowdcafe.com/.

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Mizage Divvy

Ooooo good tip, thanks! This might be a good replacement for Divvy [0], which I used until it EoL’d [0] https://mizage.com/divvy/.

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Siracusa also developed an app to get Classic Mac window layering behavior on MacOS. - https://hypercritical.co/front-and-center/ And one that gives him an application switcher that works the way he likes: - https://hypercritical.co/switchglass/.

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Phoenix

When I was annoyed with this I went ahead and downloaded phoenix (<a href="https://github.com/kasper/phoenix">https://github.com/kasper/phoenix</a>) wrote a little javascript and now I have a bunch of globally accessable hotkeys so I can lay my windows out in a number of combinations. Right now I have setups for over/under left/right, two by two grid, and three by three grid. I've got some plans to spend some time enabling more arbitrary grids and subgrids but I haven't gotten to it yet.

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spectrwm

I use the tiling WM spectrwm. It lets me pull windows out of tiling mode and into window mode. I think a common operation on most tiling window managers. Most of the time I don't want overlapping windows(thus the tiling WM) but every once in a while I do, so the best of both worlds. It is a bit obscure but I quite like spectrwm, it fills this sweet spot where it is much simpler than I3 but much more feature complete than DWM. <a href="https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm">https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm</a>.

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