how do I disable automatic window resizing in Sequoia

Wouldn’t that be nice if it was true. I am not the only one here reporting the issue. I rarely get the marquee. It just resizes. The whole 48”. I have tried always moving down first just to be sure it isn’t resizing as a result of hitting the top. Nope. Doesn’t help.

I went to Sys settings->Desktop & Dock->Windows and turned off all four switches there. However if I come back and look again, the "Drag windows to menu bar to fill screen" stays on. This is something I definitely do not want. Why can't I turn it off?

Although turning off each and every one of the new "Tiling" functions in system preferences diminishes the effect - it does NOT remove it altogether. There is SOMETHING, some elusive "gesture" that normal Mac users do dragging windows here and there - that still causes the window to "maximize" (not to "Full screen" mode - just take the whole size of your current screen), which drives me nuts.

Old Mac users like myself (since 1987) are pretty strict with where their windows should be and what size they are. I find myself cursing again and again, trying in vain to maintain my "work bench" so I can see things I need together, drag things from one window to another quickly etc.

This is - again - Apple crumbling down on us. The Mac really "gets in your way" nowadays. Zillion authentications, Zillion "no, you can't do that", Lots of functionality REMOVED from apple Apps, in favor of more and more cluttered eye-candy visual effects that help NOTHING with your work and fun.

Even the "Focus" feature (presumably made to help user stay in Focus) takes all your focus for itself!!! what huge configuration strain and things just "happen" all the time while you're trying to work.

This issue with Windows is just the last straw.

It's time some decent engineers left Apple to write a new operating system-- for the rest of us.

Jo! wrote:

That does not show the original behavior of the green button from before sequoia.

optionkey down used to allow window resizing as a toggle: this way it was easy to fit a document exactly in its own window.

is there no one who knows how to turn it of in terminal??

Zoom from the Green dot is gone. They slowly killed it with Full Screen. Now tiling has ended its existence.

You can set double-click on title bar to zoom in Desktop & Dock preferences.

The thing is, I WANT to tile windows by going to the screen edge. I do NOT want them to resize to my full 48" monitor when I do it. The resizing behavior happens to me any time I try to move a window, whether it hits the top of the screen or not. Super annoying. I guess I will go back to Magnet - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/magnet/id441258766?mt=12

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Sep 28, 2024 11:50 AM in response to d.s.cobb

Thanks for confirming, @d.s.cobb! That's exactly the faulty behavior I had reported via Apple Feedback.

Here, it's a Mac Mini M2 Pro with a Dell UltraSharp 40" monitor (U4021QW). And that turned out to be the problem.

As suggested by Dell, I had installed Dell's DDPM software, and allowed it to open automatically on startup. That software has a feature called EasyArrange which allows, among other things, window tiling just like in Sequoia. I've never used it, though, and wasn't aware it was seemingly turned on (maybe it wasn't). For more than a year, it hasn't caused any issues.

Now that changed when updating to Sequoia. Don't ask me how this is possible, but the new macOS window tiling feature seems to have enabled the DDPM EasyArrange feature, with no way of disabling it.

From there on, fixing the issue was easy: Quit DDPM, and the nasty behavior immediately goes away. Go to Settings, Login Items & Extensions, Open at Login, and remove DDPM, so that it doesn't load on startup. Problem solved. This also explains why most people in this thread didn't encounter the problem the way I did.

Try Settings > Desktop & Dock > Double-click a window's title bar to > Do nothing

I tried it, but it doesn't solve the issue.

See my other post explaining what caused the problem. In my case, it was a combination of Dell's DDPM software (precisely its EasyArrange feature) and updating to Sequoia.

@dialabrain Never assume everyone's using the exact same setup as you. (In my case, it was a combination of Dell's DDPM monitor software and the Sequoia update that caused this hard-to-debug issue.)

Thanks for this help. I hated this. The feature might be great, but dumb thing to make it default.

Love to customize things. But please, let us choose what we want.

Geeziz...!!! I couldn't find it because I couldn't describe it properly to a search engine. Thank you - it's been making me nutz.

@dialabrain It's a Sequoia issue in any case. Why would Dell's DDPM software start behaving differently from how it did for more than a year?

I'm not blaming Apple for this, but any major change can have inadvertent consequences.

The lesson to learn is to look at edge cases, too. It doesn't help telling people "it works for me and everyone else" when they might have different setups.

I disabled that as soon as I got this version. I have turned off everything that I can find and I still can't get my desktop windows to work right. I have no idea why Apple believes that the only way we will love their x-dates is by turning them on and not mapping how to turn them off. If this were an airplane it would not fly.

if you're running any form of 3rd party window tiling SW - e.g. Dell's DDPM utility that they distribute with their monitors - try uninstalling that and see what happens. That was the problem for a couple of us. Don't know if other tiling utilities might suffer from the same fate.

Good luck!