Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yep - force quit did not do it. The apps ignore me. Usually, I can kill it in the Activity Monitor. Tile windows use case: I have two programs runnung - one window each - say, a web page and a spread sheet. I want to copy some info from the document to the spread sheet. To keep my context, I want both windows open and as large as possible. In windows, I can simply say "Tile Windows Horizontally (or Vertically) and the two windows are immediately resized, each filling half the screen. To do the same in OS X needs a lot of jiggling between dragging the whole window using the top bar and resizing. I have searched for scripts to do it for me, but none work in the general case.. On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Jeff Moore <jbm@jbm.org> wrote: > 2008-08-08-11:43:10 Clive: > > Spinning balls forever in several apps. Needed the equivalent of the > > Windows three finger salute to kill the offending app. This was my > > biggest surprise - I thought that I would never have to do it again > > when I switched from Windows. > > Really, you had to take the whole OS down? "Force Quit" from a > menu-click (Control-click on an Apple "mitten mouse" or right-click on > some other mouse) on the app's Dock icon didn't work? > > (In a pinch, you can also find the app's line in Activity Monitor, > highlight it, and shoot it down.) > > > The lack of a "Tile Windows" capability - Expose does not do it for me. > > This is a major pain. > > What do you mean by "Tile Windows"? Are you talking about virtual > screens? Because Leopard finally introduced this, with Spaces. > > > Lack of "dragable" borders on Windows > > I agree. This is UI minimalism at the user's expense. > > > Not biggies - I still use Macs with no intention of changing. > > Yep, me too. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Clive http://clive.smugmug.com