Time to fess up, how do you primarily use windows in our Mac? Bonus points if you reply with a screenshot 📸
Wherever they appear, I don’t know
20.6%
Centered (think Apple marketing shot)
28.5%
Fullscreen (as big as you can make them)
21.4%
Tiled (in a grid, like taking up half the screen)
29.5%
Poll ended at .
I primarily have the main window in its "optimal size" in the center, and some other windows scattered around in the “peripheral vision”. The Desktop has to be always a bit visible for drag and dropping stuff into/from it.
@rafa This is absolutely the best way! I used to get judged a lot for working this way when I was in an office and everyone could see how I worked.
@rafa I do the same and use HazeOver - it dims the windows in the background so it’s a bit easier to focus on the one on top
@rafa
Isn't that an insane waste of space? 🙊
Do you have a 48-inch monitor?

@havn @rafa I’d say it leverages the concept of negative space (or white space) which is an explicit “use” of the empty space to organize, highlight, categorize information or content.

My favorite example is a rest in music. A rest isn’t wasted space it’s an intentional separation, as much a part of the music as any of the notes.

So it goes for the margins around his windows here, the way they overlap (and don’t) and the way the files are organized on the desktop.

@NateBarham @havn you said it better than I ever could.

@rafa @NateBarham Air is nice - just like it is in a luxurious interior with lots of space. But I feel like I have too little (screen) real estate and too much crap I need space for. 😛

You could also say that I prioritise a slightly different luxury: Instead of having calming air _around_ the windows, I have more space _within_ the windows. 🤔

(But your setup looks nicer in pictures! ☺️)

@havn @rafa Mine looks more like that when I’m recording voice overs or an audiobook. But for day to day work, I’d find it pretty claustrophobic.

I guess we’re all good examples for why Apple has so many ways to manage windows! 🤓

@NateBarham @rafa Haha, yeah.
It's interesting, because I would find having smaller windows (to get more air) to be the thing that's claustrophobic! ☺️
@rafa I use a Hot Corner for Desktop drag-and-drop (on my MBA.)
@rafa Mostly pretty much similar to you.
@rafa can you please share that wallpaper?
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@rafa same here, I even have one of those window management apps that’s centres the window for me
@rafa This is how the Mac was designed to be used. Fullscreen and tiling were added decades later to help recovering Windows users.
@adam Recovering Windows Users™
@rafa Xcode, Finder, Messages and temporary apps get to share the desktop, everything else that runs all day goes in a fullscreen space
@rafa 😱I almost never drop anything on the desktop. Could be another poll😁
@rafa do you have a tool to always get it to be there? 😅 I like having windows a little smaller on large screens, but it bothers me to no end when they’re not perfectly centred. 🤣
@amxmln @rafa Raycast > window manager > center
@alexcamlo yes! My most used Raycast action ⚡
@rafa I’ve been using stage manager and kinda love (most of) it. Windows are always centred, not full screen, unless I have two up in which case 50/50
@rafa What desktop widget it that if you don’t mind me asking?
@rafa I use a hot corner (bottom right) to hide and show the desktop
@rafa I have a similar approach for external screens, not sure why full screen or taking over the desktop wallpaper doesn’t feel right (and I like too see a bit of the other windows)
@rafa Beautiful. Glorious! 😄