Better OSX Window Management

I daily drive a Samsung Odyssey G9 which is absurdly wide monitor (see below, credit to IGN).

Windows management is awesome on Windows 11 and abysmal on OSX. Seriously it's almost as if Apple doesn't make a $5000 Pro Display XDR that is 32 inches and everyone just uses Full Screen mode with a Magic Trackpad. Despite the fact that it's quite jarring to swipe between two full screen applications, it's inefficient too.

I found two programs that I'm using and tailored to my display to increase my productivity, especially when programming.

Programs

Rectangle

Rectangle is advertised as a program to Move and resize windows in macOS using keyboard shortcuts or snap areas which it nails flawlessly in my experience.

I use this app to snap programs to different 1/3 areas of my monitor

Installation

There's a link to download the app on the website listed above but I'm a bigger fan of using brew

brew install --cask rectangle

Configuration

Here's the configuration I use for my dumb wide monitor

AltTab

AltTab is similar to the current ⌘+^ but actually useful (why is the default behavior of the window switcher to not display multiple instances of the same app — think multiple Code windows)

AltTab brings the power of Windows’s “alt-tab” window switcher to macOS.

I use this app to quickly switch between multiple windows quickly

Installation

There's a link to download the app on the website listed above but I'm a bigger fan of using brew

brew install alt-tab

Configuration

Here's appearance settings I use since there is a bunch of clutter enabled by default

These are two awesome programs to get your productivity up to speed when, especially when using an external monitor