Spectacle: More than just halves and thirds

[popshuvitdude]

Feature request. Instead of working with halves and thirds, can we have two thirds, quarters and so on or whatever screen division the user specifies. Thanks.

[Christian-G]

This would be a very useful feature. +1

[balupton]

I'm currently a Divvy user, but would love to migrate to a FOSS alternative.

Divvy works quite well, pressing the Divvy hotkey opens the Divvy panel, which is a collection of tiles in a grid. You then drag over the tiles that you want the window's size to become. Alternatively, you can set pre-determined grid selections to certain hotkeys so that say pressing cmd+space (my divvy hotkey), then pressing a will move the window to the left side, presssing d will move it to the right side.

[goodreds]

Yes please to the 2/3 option. Code editor in 1/3 and browser in 2/3 is my preferred workflow.

[goodreds]

Thanks for the 2/3 mode in the new release. I couldn't be happier.

[popshuvitdude]

I updated to the latest version but no option for 2/3. Am I missing something?

[eczarny]

@popshuvitdude In 0.8.3 if you continue to active the action to move a window to the left half or right half of the display Spectacle will cycle through 1/2, 2/3, and 1/3.

[popshuvitdude]

Oh right. I was expecting the 2/3 option to cover two thirds of the screen like my screen shot instead of just moving the window to the 2nd third of the screen.

[selfsimilar]

I'd also like to see something that would allow an easy 1/3 2/3 split between 2 apps. Just cycling through thirds is not enough. Even something like "snap to edge" that would pull the nearest window edge to screen's edge would be enough. App 1 cycle to left 1/3, App 2 cycle to middle 1/3 then snap to right edge. Only 2 distinct commands though cycling through thirds will take a few keybashes but at least we're not leaving to mouseland to resize.

[AvidDM]

Hi, I came here to make a request for a 2/3 of screen size option and found this thread. So, +1 from me.

Thanks to the devs for this fantastic app. I find it useful and use it many, many times each day.

[thetoolman]

Thank "follower" for making a ticket and documenting that the feature exists, but is labelled badly:

follower@#172: "It's not obvious from the Preferences UI that the "Left Half" and "Right Half" keyboard shortcuts actually implement 1/2, 2/3, and 1/3 functionality." - i.e it toggles through those fractions, including 2/3.

[sharq88]

Hi. I love this little app, and helped me soo much, but now I bought a 21:9 screen, and would be great to divide the screen into 6 parts. There is a way to use 1/2, 1/3 and 2/3 but I can't use the middle part of the screen, it only jumps to the left or the right of the screen. I can not do 1/3 left, 1/3 center and 1/3 right. Is there any way to achieve this? Thanks again!

[genox]

I agree, divisions should be configurable. 1/3 subdivisions is not enough on a 21:9 screen. :-)

edit. Sorry, this is badly formulated. It seems that the smallest division is around 1/6 but the last 1/6 doesn't get "added" to a window when using the hotkeys.

smalles size is 1/3, largest size is 2/3 with two subdivisions from 1/3 to 2/3. What I'd love to see is another 1/6 on top of the 2/3. If that makes sense.