![]() ![]() 3 finger swipe down … minimize window on current monitor.ģ finger swipe up … maximize window on current monitor.3 finger swipe right … make window right half of current monitor.3 finger swipe left … make window left half of current monitor.left click Music.app orange button enters mini player mode.double click window menubar minimizes that window.double click main menubar maximizes the window.4 finger swipe left/right … move window to “the other” monitor.4 finger pinch … center window on current monitor.4 finger spread … center and resize window to ~ 80% of current monitor (calls a KBM action via keybinding).3 finger click triggers my Keyboard Maestro pallet for DT (triggers KBM keyboard shortcut).4 finger click triggers the highlight menu item (as I’m reading I can select text and highlight it quickly).4 finger spread … go to annotation inspector (so I can write a short note).In Safari (all of these trigger Safari keyboard shortcuts) 3 fingers down, tap left or right finger … go to previous/next tab.4 fingers down, tap left or right finger … go back/forward in tab history.4 finger pinch mutes my microphone (mimics the “zip it” hand gesture) … triggers the Skype keyboard shortcut shift-cmd-M.4 finger spread unmutes my microphone (yes, its the same keyboard shortcut, but its fun to do both).Via BTT keyboard shortcuts (shift-opt-cmd + …) Globally, 3 fingers down and swipe the left one down … sleep computer In OmniFocus, Outlook, Excel, and Safari … 3 finger click activates app-specific Keyboard Maestro pallets (tigger KBM keyboard shortcuts) J/K … maximize window left/right half current monitor.H/L … maximize window left/right third of current monitor.U/I … move window left/right quarter top of current monitor. ![]() N/M … move window left/right quarter bottom of current monitor.G … maximize window right 2/3 of current monitor.left/right arrow key … move window to left or right monitor.more-or-less mapped around J/K on the keyboard.In Skype meetings, I’ll often pin the Skype window to the left 2/3 of my main monitor and my notes to the right 1/3. That way I stay facing forward during the meeting.MacOS Monterey comes with some new window management tricks but they feel incomplete and a little frustrating. I have one suggestion for the Apple team that works on Spaces and window management: Get a big ass monitor. It’s a gorgeous 38" display that makes me feel like I’m working on a space ship. It was surprisingly hard to adapt to so many pixels but I’m loving almost everything about it. Each of these windows is about the size of a 13" monitor: Here’s what a 38 inch monitor looks like. With so many pixels on screen dragging a window is very inefficient, which kills the utility of window snapping tools like Magnet or even BetterSnapTool and it’s big sister BetterTouchTool. 1 When a window is on the right side of a 38" monitor and I want it snapped to the upper left corner, a mouse is the wrong tool. I keep Moom running for occasional assistance but I decided I wanted to dive into the new Keyboard Maestro and some KM programming. I’d like a set of keyboard shortcuts for moving windows around a grid on a large monitor. The keyboard shortcuts should let me move a window between the spaces on the grid. ![]()
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