Rectangle Alternatives

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• My first ever Apple computer. Very excited!! Any tips or tricks are welcome.
  reddit.com/r/macbookair | 2021-03-06

  If you want a free open source alternative then try "Rectangle" https://rectangleapp.com/

• The Wild World of Apple Silicon
  dev.to | 2021-03-06

  Everything I've run through Rosetta has been flawless from a functionality perspective. Having said that though: anything run through Rosetta does seem to suck battery life. And not just apps that are normally CPU intensive. For example: I found that having Dropbox (which doesn't support M1), Itsycal, and Spectacle constantly running in my menu bar all seemed to have a significant drain on battery life. I've since switched from Dropbox to Sync, from Spectacle to Rectangle, and have uninstalled Itsycal as I still haven't found an M1-powered replacement.

• How to get rid of titlebar with emacs-mac
  reddit.com/r/emacs | 2021-03-05

  I have tried (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(undecorated . t)) but my window manager didn't like that and couldn't properly move the window around or make it larger/smaller. I tried the below from stackoverflow

• Moom discount 50%
  reddit.com/r/macapps | 2021-03-04

  I've been using Rectangle but cheers though!

• M1 MacBook Air Hits 900GFlops in the Browser with Safari's Experimental WebGPU
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-03-03
• Looking for a way to add extra keyboard shortcut functionality (Catalina)
  reddit.com/r/mac | 2021-02-27

  I use amethyst and rectangle very heavily for managing windows, and I very rarely have to use the mouse to manage windows.

• Is there any free splitscreen software for samsung ultrawides with mac?
  reddit.com/r/ultrawidemasterrace | 2021-02-21

  This might be able to do what you want I think? https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle Free and open source

• A newbie to macOS from Windows
  reddit.com/r/macbookpro | 2021-02-17

  I love the App Magnet and previously the free version Spectacle (no longer maintained). Rectangle is now free as well as an alternative.

• Switching to Windows
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-02-11
• mbp + ultrawide = perfect work space
  reddit.com/r/macbookpro | 2021-02-10

  Did you try https://rectangleapp.com/ ? I find it to works great for my use case, I rarely use this much windows on the same screen though

• news.ycombinator.com | 2021-02-10

  I think everyone is aware that it's a different paradigm. It was introduced in the 80s as a way to have floating windows for the application and reuse the same tool windows for e.g. Photoshop without a parent window. But now even Photoshop has a parenting window. Almost everyone just maximises all their applications since Mac window management doesn't work. And everyone else has to install Spectacle or Rectangle[1]

  I am attacking the paradigm. It has had its time. It is done. It should leave.

  [1] https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle

• Newbie questions: Window tiling tips wanted, plus file extensions and levels up
  reddit.com/r/MacOS | 2021-02-07

  There are a lot of third-party apps out there. I personally use a free one, Rectangle. Other options include: Spectacle, Magnet, Hookshot, BetterSnapTool, Moom, Amethyst, Divvy, etc. There are also quite a few reddit threads discussing the pros and cons of all these options as well. Try searching (in this sub, or maybe r/macapps) using the keyword 'window snapping' as I think more people refer to it as that rather than calling it 'tiling'.

• Keep Windows on External Monitor when Opening Macbook
  reddit.com/r/osx | 2021-02-03

  I also love Spectacle, but have switched to Rectangle (https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle) in the past couple years. It's essentially the same app, but written in Swift so it's significantly faster. Also has a toggle to default to the same hotkeys as Spectacle. Big fan.

• I just bought my first Mac!!!
  reddit.com/r/MacOS | 2021-01-28

  Window snapping: https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle

• I created an open-source VS Relief Overlay app that *might* help improving the symptoms of VS
  reddit.com/r/visualsnow | 2021-01-22

  For the time being, if you are having issues placing the overlay on your other monitor you could use something like Rectangle. It allows moving windows on Mac using keyboard shortcuts (the command is Next/Previous Display). It's not the best but it is only temporary :)