Spectacle: Arrange window with custom padding
It would be awesome if we could arbitrarily set a margin so that what ever app you are aligning, will not go all the way to the edge of the screen. So if I se a 20px margin, and I set an app to go lower left, it would place itself 20px up from the bottom and 20px in from the right.
I suppose you would want to be able to set the margin individually for each monitor..
I'm not to sure I put this idea in the right place. My apologies if I didn't.
Thanks!
AnthonySchultz
All 26 comments
Very specific request, but it could be nice to have for all those little modal windows for instance.
exalted
on 4 Nov 2012
Size Up has this feature, it is really handy, I switched to spectacle but am considering moving back as this feature makes such a difference.
I like to still be able to access icons on my desktop so a margin is perfect for that, also when you have two aps taking 50% of the screen each with no space around them the screen feels ver cramped!
dahliacreative
on 15 Jul 2013
@dahliacreative
+1
I agree wholeheartedly. Being able to have the app handle margins is great. Gives great access to the desktop.
mattsnowky
on 14 Nov 2013
+1
In addition to having access to the desktop, I like my backgrounds to _bleed_ a bit around windows. I have screen real state to spare and the effect is really pleasing. E.g:
jzfgo
on 8 Oct 2014
+1 to margins/gutters
s3ththompson
on 13 Aug 2015
With this enhancement Spectacle would introduce a configurable padding along the edges of a display and along edges of individual windows. This effectively combines #67 and #413 into one enhancement.
eczarny
on 14 Aug 2015
This would be great to see!
arcataroger
on 3 Sep 2015
:+1:
apazzolini
on 5 Sep 2015
And if this ever gets implemented, I'd also like the ability to configure the padding per display...
wmertens
on 7 Sep 2015
With all the recent releases i still hope for this feature every time
leifniem
on 1 Mar 2016
Totally agree, a great little piece of software, with added customization for the user I think it could become even better!
And perhaps set presets, so you give a certain keybinding a preset if you are constantly manually re-sizing a window specifically.
HighDensityAwesome
on 8 Mar 2016
I'd love to see this as well. I'm coming from SizeUp too and it's surprisingly helpful, for instance, having padding on the right side allows me to access a column of desktop icons even when a window is oriented to the right or fullscreen.
And making the padding configurable as well allows you to do things like have one app fullscreen-except-for-padding on one side, and another full-screen-except-for-padding on the other side.
rootwork
on 10 Jun 2016
100% agree. I still use and prefer Divvy for it's margin and gutter customization.
jesseleite
on 17 Aug 2016
I would like this feature as well
kingmatusevich
on 29 Sep 2016
is this feature no longer on the roadmap?
chrisdrackett
on 15 Dec 2016
Closed as I have no plans to implement this functionality. Sorry, should have mentioned this when I originally closed the issue.
eczarny
on 24 May 2017
For those of us looking for this—I found an app that does it: Mosaic
movingobjects
on 27 Feb 2018
Any hope of this being reopened?
ctr26
on 8 Feb 2019
I, too, would love to see this implemented. The current behavior just makes things look so cluttered that I find myself just using my mouse for window management.
sniarn
on 1 Jun 2019
Yep, here we are, 2019, and we still need this.
adamkdean
on 17 Jul 2019
Instead of making a toxic/useless comment, why don't you give it a try if the app is open source?
karimhossenbux
on 28 Apr 2020
For anyone interested in this feature, you should check out Rectangle, which is basically a clone of Spectacle, but written in swift.
https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle#adding-gaps-between-windows
adamalbrecht
on 28 Apr 2020
Doesn't have the window padding feature either as far as I see?On 28 Apr 2020 14:13, Adam Albrecht notifications@github.com wrote:
For anyone interested in this feature, you should check out Rectangle, which is basically a clone of Spectacle, but written in swift.
https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle#adding-gaps-between-windows
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ctr26
on 28 Apr 2020
@ctr26 Thanks for the tip. Rectangle seems to have the exact feature I was after. Enabled by doing this:
defaults write com.knollsoft.Rectangle gapSize -float 20
@karimhossenbux feature demand ≠toxic/useless. Signalling demand to product owners is simply feedback. For what it's worth, I moved over to Mosaic and couldn't be happier.
adamkdean
on 28 Apr 2020
@adamkdean there is a better way of asking this
karimhossenbux
on 28 Apr 2020
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Any hope of this being reopened?