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. What are some other useful examples of software that people could use? I couldn't really find a Windows equivalent to this software, unfortunately.The keyboard shortcuts should let me move a window between the spaces on the grid. Surely, Apple and MS can't do everything, but these are two examples of things that their users will often use. Honestly, these two applications make me wonder how Apple and Microsoft get beat by such a small development team. BetterSnapTool gives you more control on window management and it is much better than the new split view that El Capitan has by just double tapping the title bar. This is useful since getting used to quitting in OS X is different than Windows. For example, I can do a 5 finger swipe down gesture to quit an application. BetterTouchTool gives you a ton of ways to create unique gestures for rather complex tasks. I ended up buying a Macbook Pro and quickly ran into the applications "BetterTouchTool" and "BetterSnapTool". My HP laptop died the other day and I had to pull the trigger on a new one.
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