Similar to Bartender, Vanilla gives you an area to put taskbar applications that you can just hide away behind a clean looking arrow.
#Displaperture for windows windows#
Similar to other applications such as Magnet or BetterTouchTool, Rectangle gives you the ability to drag and drop windows and have them snap into place, or use keyboard shortcuts to lay them out as you wish.ĭoes your taskbar look like an entryway console table that people just keep piling stuff on top of? Does it bother you that some icons are different shades of grey than others? (ahem, OneDrive) Well, deal with those issues no longer. (Edit: you can get around this by holding the option key as you hover, but that feels even more convoluted.) This is where Rectangle comes in.
#Displaperture for windows full#
Although macOS technically lets you do this if you hover over the green ‘fullscreen’ button, it only supports two apps, and puts them in full screen mode, making it annoying to access the top ribbon.
RectangleĬoming from a Windows computer, I was incredibly used to being able to drag a window to a side or corner of the screen, and have it snap to that location. Note that none of these are really full fledged applications, but rather command line tools and utilities that integrate wth macOS in order to improve the overall experience. I can certainly say that they have helped macOS work better for me, and hopefully you will find at least one of them helpful also. Yet, no relationship is perfect, and there have been certain things that I wish worked better, hence the following list of extensions. Since then, my relationship with macOS has been pleasant, with no major dealbreakers. Although a MacBook would not have been a laptop I would have contemplated a few years ago, (thermal throttling and butterfly keyboard, anyone?), the introduction of the M1 SOC and Apple’s Education Discount actually made the M1 MacBook Air a compelling offer. 10 Must Have macOS Utilities (Free) IntroĪfter putting much time and research into deciding what laptop I was going to purchase for university, I ultimately decided to purchase the 2020 MacBook Air.