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With a single blink!

I recently wrote about tiling window-management through dvtm - which works fine in MacOS. But that's only for command-line purposes and needs X11 mouse support (from iTerm). Pretty geeky, to be honest, because the key-bindings have to be compiled into the dvtm binary.

Now, here's something new - less geeky - for most Cocoa-based window apps:





SizeUp aligns windows like that screenshot shows here. They are not fixed in a drawn frame; which would be similar to dwm or xmonad's behavior. SizeUp changes the window-size to make the windows fit on the one particular screen. You can focus them all at once, all their information, and keep them like that to work with the applications.

Of course there're academic discussions which kind of window-management is to be considered more useful. Tiling window-management lost the match, and therefore Aqua, KDE, Gnome and other modern Desktop Environments don't have it by default. There's to say that Windows' Ribbon has a way to align Windows exactly like that, automatically. By default - Windows has this feature since ages.

If you're working with code and you're writing more than 80 characters in a line - you won't be able to create a pretty source-printout without stupid line-breaks on paper.
And if you have to monitor several Terminals at once sizing up the windows becomes essential. Furthermore this can help to keep the orientation focused on the work, while compiling source with special command-line parameters or updating the repositories.

I guess target-audience is command-line using folks, people with fast workflows using Spaces, screen, dvtm, dtach, developers or geeks. It's an ergonomic workflow-expericence to align windows tiled in a Space and to switch back to it to grab the information with a single blink.

Have fun,
wishi