#BETTERTOUCHTOOL WINDOW MOVE WINDOWS#

#BETTERTOUCHTOOL WINDOW MOVE WINDOWS#

You can also resize and move windows with custom shortcuts. For the best performance and appearance, I recommend the configuration below. You can configure the appearance of preview window, the size of snapped window, and the padding between windows.

Turn on window snapping feature in the Action Settings panel. If you work with more than four windows, you can even drag the window to one of the screen corner and have it resized to fill quarter the screen. You can also fill the screen by dragging the window to the top of screen edge. Windows Snapping allows you to resize a window to fill half of the screen by dragging it to the left or the right of screen edge. But for those who only need a basic feature to manage windows, BetterTouchTool has its covered. In fact, the developer of BetterTouchTool has built a separate app called BetterSnapTool with all the features to manage windows effectively. In this post, I’m going to share how I use BetterTouchTool to manage windows.īetterTouchTool isn’t primarily designed to manage windows - its main feature is to boost the functionality of Trackpad and Magic Mouse by using gestures as a shortcut to trigger an action. There is no “best” utility, but only the one that caters your needs. There are lots of utilities for this task. Moving and resizing windows is traditionally the job of a pointing device, and it’s a guaranteed route to headaches – particularly if you’re a bit obsessive about things lining up properly, as I am. One of the tips is using a dedicated utility for resizing and managing windows. In one of the Matt Gemmell’s article, small screen productivity, he shared all the best practices to work on his 11” MacBook Air. Sometimes you’re comparing two designs side by side, sometimes you’re taking notes while watching screencast, or sometimes you simply want to move documents from one folder to another. Working in small screen means you often need to switch between apps, or move and resize windows to optimize the screen state.

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