Sep 22 2010
VIDEO: Windows Management with Divvy
As boring and uninspiring as managing onscreen windows is, Divvy from Mizage makes it dead sexy. I know Mac OS X has Spaces and Exposé and I was all excited about those before they came out too but, now that I have them, they drive me crazy. Spaces I just have turned off and Exposé, though it helps me every so often when I lose a window, is just not a part of my geek utility belt as much as I had envisioned.
Divvy, on the other hand, does what I need doing and does it well. I can tell it, “I want this window to take up exactly 4/7 of the left side of my screen and I want this other window wit take up the other 3/7.” Heck, I can even tell it to make them overlap a bit. All I have to do is summon Divvy’s little window, drag and draw the area on the miniature screen it shows and the window snaps into submission.Then I can save those dimensions and setups to Divvy’s shortcuts menu and reduce the whole procedure down to summoning Divvy’s window and hitting a shortcut key.
Divvy does suffer from some logistical problems with complicated application interfaces like Adobe Photoshop, where there are windows and palettes and multiple navigation bars, but it does work—you may have to adjust the grid in Divvy’s Appearance tab to get better handling around the toolbars. Divvy is fabulous and sells for $14 US.
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Oct 07, 2010 @ 18:43:20
I prefer Breeze. http://www.autumnapps.com/breeze/
None of this manual stuff. You can set globals (Opt-F full screen, Opt-1 Left half, Opt-2 Right half, etc) AND THEN set application specific ones for the same shortcuts that override the globals.
I rarely need to move a window or resize it to a shape I haven’t already set up in Breeze.
Oct 07, 2010 @ 19:05:17
Thanks ooglek.
I’ll give it a look.