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jb1991

On Mac I usually just double click somewhere in the title bar on a window to make it automatically size to fill up the whole screen, seems to work like a charm every time. Note, I’m not talking about the full screen mode which is something different.

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I do use that, but I find that it's inconsistent. From what I can tell, it seems to toggle between the current size and the previous size -- which becomes problematic when using an external screen. Or perhaps that's just Finder -- it's hard to tell! Frustratingly, this matches the behaviour of alt-clicking (sorry, option-clicking) on the maximise button, and I really love being able to have two windows comfortably share a screen with no wasted space, aero-snap style.

I think you are right, it is the finder app that behaves a little differently, which I’ve always assumed is because you typically need to drag files in and out of the finder so it leaves a gap to make that easy, but you can still make it full screen if you want. I’ve never noticed this with any other apps.

Safari does it too (on a big screen).

Zooming a window on MacOS is supposed to grow the window to the largest useful size, as defined by the app, which is not necessarily the full screen.

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