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Homebrew: finestructure/Hummingbird
https://github.com/finestructure/Hummingbird
https://finestructure.co/hummingbird

Linux-style alt-drag to move windows on macOS

A fork of Easy Move+Resize with different usage.

• Payware, but free when from Homebrew/GitHub.

• 2022-11-22 – likely 2.0.0(3) on macOS 13 (Ventura) on an Apple Macbook Pro A1278 – 13″ Laptop
• 2022-11-19 – likely 2.0.0(3) on macOS 10.15 (Catalina) on an Apple Macbook Pro A1278 – 13″ Laptop

• 2022-11-19 – I considered Easy Move+Resize

2022-11-19 – likely 2.0.0(3) ∞

• It resizes only from the bottom-right corner, which sucks
• Fn won’t work since I disable it (which doesn’t matter)
• TODO – report — You cannot disable either of it’s features. Both move and drag have to have associated hotkeys.

• When fullscreen with two apps, “drag” move the slider. Neat!

brew tap finestructure/Hummingbird
brew install --cask Hummingbird
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Hummingbird.app

# Launch on startup:
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to make login item at end with properties {path:"/Applications/Hummingbird.app", hidden:true}'

Alternatives ∞

• See Linux-style alt-drag to move windows on macOS
• See macOS
• Easy Move+Resize

• See superuser.com, which also has some usage instructions for their handful of recommendations.

• Moves for macOS [ 1 ]

• VEEER

  • A Window Manager

• Rectangle

  • Move and resize windows in macOS using keyboard shortcuts or snap areas
  • $ – Rectangle Pro
• $ – BetterSnapTool

• $ – Windownaut

–

• BetterTouchTool

  • Customize various input devices.
• $ – MaxSnap

• $ – SizeUp

  • Resize and position your windows with keyboard shortcuts or a menu bar icon.
  • Unlimited free trial.
• $ Divvy

• $ Moom

native support ∞

Enable control-cmd-leftclick in any window and drag to move, let go of Cmd during the drag to allow the window to snap to the screen/window edges.

(source, and he is reportedly the author)

Applications > Utilities > Terminal, and:

# to add
defaults write -g NSWindowShouldDragOnGesture -bool true   

# to remove
defaults delete -g NSWindowShouldDragOnGesture

Reportedly does not work with all applications.

• 2022-11-20 on macOS Catalina – (10.15) — did not work for me.

Footnotes

1. was https://getmoves.app/ which then became https://www.notion.so/brainbowstudio/Moves-for-macOS-1be10a78689740719b5584379cb3ab88 [ ↩ ]