windows in front of fullscreen

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windows in front of fullscreen

Hi,

I've been working with a mac now for half a year, before that I was on Windows and Linux. There is one future I haven't gotten used to and I would rather have it working differently.

I always work with applications in fullscreen and two screens. I would like to be able to drag one application from one screen to the other when I have something open in fullscreen on the other screen. What actually happens is that I can't drag the application to the other screen that has something else open in fullscreen.

I would like to be able to put applications on top of a fullscreen application if it's possible.

MacBook Pro, macOS Sierra (10.12.6)

Posted on Jun 29, 2018 5:32 AM

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Eric Root

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Jul 3, 2018 5:14 AM in response to thegr8patsy

If you hold down the option/alt key while clicking the green button at the top left, that will cause the window to take up the full height of the screen. It will not cause it to horizontally fill the screen.

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Eric Root

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Jul 3, 2018 1:54 AM in response to thegr8patsy

Each full screen application has to have it's own space. As you have noted, you can't drag one full screen app onto another. You can try going control - up arrow and create a new Desktop using the plus sign at the top right to see if that helps.

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BobHarris

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Jul 3, 2018 6:04 AM in response to thegr8patsy

BetterTouchTool has a similar feature. You can drag a window to various sides of the monitor and it will snap to 1/4 of the screen, 1/2 of the screen, all of the screen, but not cover the menu bar nor the Dock.

BetterTouchTool also has hotkeys, and can map hundreds of trackpad gestures. I can live without it, but I do NOT want to 😁

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Barney-15E

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Jun 29, 2018 5:37 PM in response to thegr8patsy

Just stop using full screen. It's idiotic and hampers workflow as you have noted.

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thegr8patsy Author

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Jul 3, 2018 2:02 AM in response to Barney-15E

Ok, lets say I stop using fullscreen when I work with monitors. Is there a fast and easy way to make the windows I work with take upp the full size of the screen?

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