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Oct 26, 2018 The new Snap Camera app is available as a free download and is designed so that it runs in the background of MacOS and Windows as a camera output. Jun 11, 2015 When Microsoft released Windows 7, it introduced its Snap feature, which lets users simply grab and drag a window to a screen edge and “snap” it there. So for example, if you drag a window to the right edge, it will snap there and resize to half the screen’s width. If you drag it to the top, it will snap there and expand to maximum.
If you use your Mac for more than browsing the occasional website or checking email, chances are you're working with multiple windows at a time — you might have seven Safari windows open with multiple tabs, a couple instances of your text editor of choice, a Messages window, Photoshop running in the background … I could go on. The point is all those windows start to get in the way, keeping you from completing the work you set out to do when you sat down at your Mac. With a few keyboard shortcuts, some trackpad and mouse gestures, and apps for managing your windows, you can take control of your workspace on macOS.
Keyboard shortcuts
There are several shortcuts that can help you navigate macOS without ever having to lift your fingers from the keyboard.
- Command (⌘) + H: This hides the windows of the frontmost app.
- Command (⌘) + Option (⌥) + H: This hides the windows of all apps except for the frontmost app.
- Command (⌘) + M: This minimizes the frontmost window.
- Command (⌘) + Option (⌥) + M: This minimizes all the windows of the frontmost app.
- Command (⌘) + N: This opens a new window (or document, depending on the app).
- Command (⌘) + W: This closes the frontmost window.
- Command (⌘) + Option (⌥) + W: This closes all the windows of the frontmost app.
- Command (⌘) + Tab: This switches to the next open and most recently app.
- Shift (⇧) + Command (⌘) + Tilde: This switches to the next most recently used window of the frontmost app.
- Option (⌥) + Command (⌘) + D: This toggles on and off Dock Hiding. If you need a little more room on screen, consider hiding your Dock.
- Control (⌃) + Down Arrow: This shows all the windows of the frontmost application.
- Control (⌃) + F4: This moves the keyboard focus to the active window. Pressing it again moves keyboard focus to the next window.
- Control (⌃) + F5: This moves the keyboard focus to the floating window.
- Command (⌘) + `: This moves keyboard focus to the next window.
Trackpad and mouse gestures
You can use your Mac's trackpad or a Magic Mouse to activate certain shortcuts for windows management.
Trackpad gestures
- Quickly show your desktop by spreading your thumb and three fingers apart on the trackpad.
- Swipe up with three or four fingers to open Mission Control.
- Swipe down with three or four fingers to open App Exposé.
- Swipe left or right with three or four fingers to switch between desktop and app Spaces.
Mouse gestures
- Double tap with two fingers to launch Mission Control.
- Swipe left or right with two fingers to switch between desktop and app Spaces.
Using Mission Control
Mission Control is one of the best ways to manage your windows on macOS. It's built in at the system level and available with the tap of a key, the swipe of your trackpad, or the tap of your mouse. It gives you an overview of all your open windows, full-screen apps, and Spaces — making it quick and convenient to switch between them.
How do you activate Mission Control? Let me count the ways:
- Swipe up with three or four fingers on your trackpad.
- Double-tap on the top of your Magic Mouse with two fingers.
- If you kept it in your Dock, you can click the Mission Control icon.
- Tap the Mission Control key on your keyboard (looks like three rectangles of varying sizes).
- Use the keyboard shortcut Control (⌃) + Up Arrow.
- Click and drag a window to the top of the screen.
Working with Spaces
Mission Control allows you to create Spaces. Spaces are essentially different iterations of your desktop that can all display different apps, windows, and Split Views. If you find your current desktop is getting a little crowded but you don't want to close the apps and windows you've got open, you can create a brand new Space to work with. Some people will even create Spaces for different tasks — you might have your Space for writing, your Space for browsing the web, and your Space for editing photos.
How to add a Space
- Launch Mission Control.
Click the Add Space icon (looks like a plus sign) to add a Space.
How to move a window to a Space
- Launch Mission Control.
Drag a window of your choice to a desktop Space in the Spaces bar.
How to switch between Spaces
- Swipe left or right with three or four fingers on your trackpad.
- Swipe left or right with two fingers on your Magic Mouse.
- Use the keyboard shortcut Control (⌃) + Left Arrow to move to a space to the left.
- Use the keyboard shortcut Control (⌃) + Right Arrow to move to a space to the right.
- Launch Mission Control and click on a Space in the Spaces Bar.
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How to organize Spaces*
- Launch Mission Control.
Click and drag a Space left or right in the Spaces bar.
How to remove Spaces
- Launch Mission Control.
Hold down the Option (⌥) key and click the Close icon (looks like an X) next to the Space you want to close.
Windows within the Space you're closing won't be closed; they'll be moved to another open Space.
Working with Split View
Sometimes you want a more focused workspace. Split View in macOS lets you fill your screen with two apps, placed side by side. Here are some things you'll need to know if you're going to be working in Split View:
- You tell macOS which window you want to work in by clicking anywhere in that window.
- Need to see the menu bar? Just move your cursor to the top of the screen.
- Want the windows swapped? Just click and drag one of the windows to the other side of the screen.
- Want one window smaller than the other? Click and drag the vertical line between the two windows to adjust their width.
How to enter Split View
- Hold down the full-screen button (looks like a green circle with two arrows pointing away from each other) in the upper left corner of an app window.
- Drag the window to the left or right side of the screen.
- Release the button, snapping the window into Split View.
- Click on another window to bring it into Split View.
You can also bring an app into Split View using Mission Control. Simply launch Mission Control and drag a window onto the full-screen app Space.
Note: Some apps don't support Split View on macOS. You'll find a zoom button (looks like a green plus sign) in place of the full-screen button.
Exiting Split View
While in Split View, click the full-screen button on one of the windows.
Apps for window management
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Sometimes the built-in offerings just aren't powerful enough for your needs. In that case, there are some third-party apps that can help you keep your windows exactly where you want them. Here are four of the most-popular, well-rated offerings from the Mac App Store!
Magnet
Magnet is a lightweight windows management tool that helps you snap your windows into predefined spaces. By dragging a window to the edge of your screen, Magnet will resize the window to half of your screen; drag a window to the corner of your screen and Magnet will resize the window into a quarter of your screen. Along with drag functionality, Magnet supports keyboard shortcuts.
Here are the features Magnet supports:
- Drag and snap functionality: halves, thirds, quarters, two-thirds, and full-screen
- Keyboard shortcut triggers
- Menu bar app
Supports up to six external displays
Magnet - $0.99 - Download now
Moom
Moom is a powerful tool for moving, snapping, and zooming your windows. You can use keyboard shortcuts and hotspots to snap your windows into predefined spaces. Moom also lets you create and save window layouts so you needn't recreate your perfect desktop setup every time you head back to your Mac.
Here are the features Moom supports:
- Presets: The Moom button features five preset window locations. Hover over the green window button and quickly move and resize your window to one of the presets.
- Grids: You can use a grid to draw your desired size and location for a window.
- Custom controls: You can create and define custom controls that will resize, move, and snap windows across multiple displays and reorganize your window setup.
- Window layouts: You can create and save window layouts to easily recreate your ideal window setup.
Keyboard controls: Skip the clicking and dragging; use the keyboard controls to trigger your Moom tools.
Moom - $9.99 - Download now
Divvy
Divvy is a windows management tool that approaches things a little differently. Instead of focusing on edge-snapping and predefined sizes, Divvy uses a grid system that lets you quickly 'divvy up' your screen real estate for the apps and windows you've got open.
You click on a window and then click and drag in the Divvy interface (a grid that represents your screen) to tell the app where to place your window. It's a quick, time-saving tool that focuses on quickly and easily organizing your windows across the available area of your screen.
Here are the features Divvy supports:
- The quick Divvy grid system for organizing apps and windows
- The grid's size is customizable — you can get super granular controls by going all the way up to a 20 x 20 grid size.
- Supports multiple monitors
Supports keyboard shortcuts
Divvy - $13.99 - Download now
BetterSnapTool
BetterSnapTool is all about that edge-snapping. Drag your windows to one of the four corners or the top, left, and right sides of the screen to quickly resize and position your windows accordingly. BetterSnapTool lets you take edge-snapping a little further — it features custom snap areas that you can create anywhere on your display in order to create your own sizing presets.
Here are the features BetterSnapTool supports:
- Custom triggers for right clicking on the macOS window buttons
- Modifier key support for custom actions
- Trigger window resizing when you double click the titlebar
- Application-specific snapping sizes
Support for multiple monitors
BetterSnapTool - $3.99 - Download now
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Do you use any specific apps, tools, or keyboard shortcuts to manage your windows on macOS? Learn anything new from this piece? Gimme a shout in the comments with your thoughts, ideas, and questions!
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Windows and macOS developers can now use MicroK8s natively! Use kubectl at the Windows or Mac command line to interact with MicroK8s locally just as you would on Linux. Clean integration into the desktop means better workflows to dev, build and test your containerised apps.
MicroK8s is a conformant upstream Kubernetes, packaged for simplicity and resilience. It provides sensible defaults and bundles the most commonly used components for at-your-fingertips access. A single-node install is one command and done in seconds, which makes it easy to add or remove from any system.
MicroK8s is widely used by developers for local testing. After installing it, you can start and stop Kubernetes with a single command to conserve battery. With built-in GPGPU acceleration, Istio, Prometheus, Jaeger and many other popular services on tap, it serves as a complete workstation edition of K8s. All of this capability is now neatly accessible from the Windows and macOS command-line.
MicroK8s is also popular for CI/CD pipelines which create a fresh VM or cluster for each test run on demand. The simplicity of MicroK8s makes automation straightforward, and the speed of install reduces total test run times and resource consumption.
Windows
The new installer for Windows is a standalone executable file, available from microk8s.io.
Behind the scenes, MicroK8s on Windows uses Multipass with Hyper-V or VirtualBox to drive a dedicated Linux VM that hosts your Kubernetes. MicroK8s on Windows does the work of starting, stopping and managing that VM and the Kubernetes itself.
macOS
Install MicroK8s on macOS with the Homebrew package manager:
Here too, Multipass runs in the background to bring up a VM to host MicroK8s, transparently to the end user.
Linux
On Linux, nothing has changed:
To get an overview of MicroK8s state while it is coming up:
Notice anything different? Yes, all MicroK8s commands now support a non-dotted format. So ‘microk8s status’ and ‘microk8s.status’ are the same. This change is effective on Linux, Windows and macOS. The new version also supports the old dotted format for backwards compatibility.
MicroK8s 1.18 comes with other significant features too, such as Kubeflow 1.0 for AI/ML research and development. Kubeflow manages data science pipelines on Kubernetes, with Tensorflow and other processing elements.
Appliance, gadget makers and manufacturers increasingly want to use Kubernetes on their IoT or edge service. MicroK8s 1.18 introduced a snap interface that enables seamless interaction with other snap packages on the same host, giving them a local Kubernetes to drive. The Canonical support announcement for Kubernetes 1.18 and the Kubernetes community blog have further details. Also, if you are into SBC hacking and tinkering, here is a great tutorial to build a RaspberryPi K8s cluster.
Learn more about MicroK8s at microk8s.io.
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