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The killer feature that I dearly miss in OS X is decent Window management.

In Windows, I can use Win+left/right keys to make a window take up precisely half of the screen. I can press Win+up_arrow to fullscreen a window.

On Linux, I can use tiling window managers like Dwm or Xmonad to fullfil all my tiling needs.

In OS X, I can full screen or have to manually deal with each and every window. It's awful.

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Sizeup: http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/

Apart from resizing/moving windows, one feature I miss dearly from my Linux desktop is the ability to move windows from one desktop to the other. I use keyboard maestro to resize windows, and the developer mentions somewhere in his website that there's no way to move windows from one desktop to the other with OS X. Does anybody know if that's the case?

you can grab a window with your mouse (left click) on its upper panel hold it, so that you can drag it around your desktop. To drag it to the next desktop just hold it + CTRL+1 or 2,3,4 (depending on your set desktops).

Ah, missed the most important bit in my comment: I could do this in Linux without the mouse, which is the behavior I want to replicate in OS X if possible.

Thanks for your answer.

There's also BetterTouchTool[1], which also has the drag-window-to-side-of-screen-half-maximize behaviour from Windows.

[1]: http://www.boastr.net/

Other (FLOSS) options:

* ShiftIt: https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt

* Spectacle: https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle

There's quite a few window managers available for OS X (divvy, sizeup, shifit to name but a few).

As usual in OS X, glaring deficiencies in basic functionality of the base OS are dealt with via a vast ecosystem of third party software. I'd probably estimate that somewhere between 1/5th to 1/3rd of available third party OS X software is software designed to fix basic problems with the OS as shipped (or with the apps that ship along with the OS).

yep. this is my problem is osx. if i complain about something in it, the reply is always "just install (some app)," but that's exactly what i do not want to do. i want the os itself to just... be better and work like its competition has for a long time.

I've tried all the solutions mentioned and I settled on Spactacle in the end, because it's lightweight and open source.

http://spectacleapp.com/

We're on Hacker News, so https://github.com/jigish/slate Ultimate solution.

We're on Hacker News, so https://github.com/lunixbochs/reslate Ultimate solution.

FTFY.

You can use Slate to get exactly that: https://github.com/jigish/slate

Take a look at ShiftIt, it allows you to use keyboard commands to easily resize windows!

Wow, I got way more responses to this than I thought I would. As well, this solves my problem!

Once again the old internet wisdom of "you can only get help by disguising your question as whining" is proved true: http://bash.org/?152037

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