I didn't have this mission control problem on the old system which I installed in january 2012. Both system is/was Lion and I usually update but I have had som HD-problems so I was careful with the update since a month ago. Now I have Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 (11D50) and I think I have had this problem from the beginning.
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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - How do you manage your windows on macOS? 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!
I really appreciate the graphics and ease of accessibility on all the products from Apple and therefore I always look for ways to get similar features on my Windows PC. We have already covered articles on how to get and and today we will see how we can get a Mac-specific feature called Mission Control in Windows PCs. If you are not aware of what Mission Control is, let’s have a look at it first. What is Mission Control Mission Control is a feature of Mac OS X which allows a user to quickly rearrange all the open Windows on desktop to easily locate the one he is interested to work on. Have a look at this video for a clear understanding. SmallWindows as the name suggests, is a tool for Windows that was built to arrange the application windows you are working on for easy control flow.
To get started, download and install the program on your computer. Though the program has not undergone any update since the last successful built came in 2010, it works ok in Windows 8 PCs as well. Installing the tool is pretty simple, one just needs to follow the on-screen instructions in the set up wizard to complete the task. After installing the program, launch it. The application starts minimized in the system tray.
Double click on the tool icon to start the configuration. The configuration is divided into three parts, the first of which is the Hot-zone. In this section you can control in which corner should you drag your mouse pointer to activate the feature.
The All option will arrange all the applications that are currently in maximized and restored condition, while Related will only arrange the Windows of the app which is currently in focus. Windows 8 users might have problem in selecting the four edges as all of them are taken. You might use the show desktop zone anyways. Still if you are not comfortable with the hot-zones, you can configure the hotkeys to activate the feature. Just like the mouse hover feature, you can set a distinct hotkey for each of of the actions.
By default the color of the background while seeing all the windows is gradient blue, but you can change it as long as the image is in BMP format. You can use tools like. Finally in the advanced section you can exclude a particular application’s windows from appearing.
You can also turn on live preview but that’s gonna cost you some extra CPU and memory consumption. Simpler Workaround If you don’t want to configure so many settings and just want a simple program that you can and that’d let you activate Mission Control with a click of a mouse, then you could try. Download the tool archive package and extract the files to a folder. Having done that drag and drop the contained mc.exe file on the taskbar to pin it. Now whenever you want to launch Mission Control, simply click on the icon in the taskbar. The application is pretty straightforward to use but does not provide transitions as smooth as SmallWindows.
Also, one cannot use keyboard shortcut to select a window. Cool Tip: If your computer supports Synaptic touchpad drivers, you can configure its three button touch gesture to launch the mc.exe program that activates mission control. It will not be as smooth as a Mac but you will at least have the feature in Windows. Conclusion As far as my opinion is concerned, I would suggest you use SmallWindows. It may be a bit complex to configure, but once it’s done there’s nothing like it. Last updated on 8 Feb, 2018.