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by rxhanson 1y ago
You can also set a keyboard shortcut to activate it as a toggle.
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by rxhanson 1y ago
Good to know, that's what I was expecting. I'll have to give the Cat a spin! Also, thanks for this article and the Jef Raskin one - I thoroughly enjoyed them and their depth. I was in the middle of reading the book version of folk
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by rxhanson 1y ago
Up and down arrow keys will cycle matches. At the moment the Accessibility API results are limited to the frontmost window; it's on my todo list to expand this to additional windows and displays. Also, the green line will only be drawn
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by rxhanson 1y ago
In Superkey, all of the matches are highlighted yellow, and the selected one is highlighted green with a line to it from the text field. You can keep typing to narrow down the match, or you can navigate matches using the arrow keys (and opt
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by rxhanson 1y ago
Not that I'm aware of, but I do have plans to at least bring some version of this to Windows at some point.
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by rxhanson 1y ago
Without knowing about Jef Raskin's ideas, I implemented something really similar to one of them in one of my Mac apps, Superkey. This idea in the Canon Cat was that you hold down a key and type text that you want to select anywhere in
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by rxhanson 3y ago
Glad you like my software! A long time ago, I had some RSI issues that were alleviated by using the Magic Trackpad, and this led me to create the Multitouch app[0] to add a bit more functionality to the Magic Trackpad. From there I wanted t
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by rxhanson 3y ago
Good to know! I'm surprised that Magnet has any improvement over Rectangle in these areas, since Rectangle isn't really adding any overhead to the Accessibility API commands, but I'll have to investigate.
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by rxhanson 3y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I agree and have had some ideas for improving this - one of them being copy/paste and drag behavior where you could copy a selection in Rectangle Pro and paste it as prettified JSON in an editor, and vice-versa
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by rxhanson 3y ago
If you don't mind me asking, what are the warts? I'm always interested in improving the app.
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by rxhanson 3y ago
Rectangle is FOSS. https://rectangleapp.com
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by rxhanson 3y ago
FWIW Rectangle is FOSS https://rectangleapp.com
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by rxhanson 3y ago
I'm the developer behind Rectangle. There are a handful of features in Rectangle that aren't in Magnet, like being able to repeat shortcuts to achieve different sizes/positions, and being able to modify a lot more of the beha
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by rxhanson 3y ago
Rectangle is a drop-in replacement for Spectacle, and provides an option upon first install to select the Spectacle default keyboard shortcuts. Note that Spectacle only included keyboard shortcut window management, while Rectangle also incl
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by rxhanson 3y ago
I was hoping to move over to Google Cloud Domains, too. Looks like Google Cloud Domains "is to be fully deprecated as part of this sale". https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1669726481130434563
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by rxhanson 3y ago
Yes, there is an API for this in macOS, and I use it in two of my apps (multitouch.app and charmstone.app). The haptic feedback is really subtle though and it doesn't give the full power of the feedback that is in the trackpad, which l
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by rxhanson 3y ago
I just happened to make a post about this today, too, in the form of a quick tutorial with Automator to turn the hidutil commands into an app that can be configured in launch on login system settings, if desired: https://medium.c
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by rxhanson 4y ago
Thanks for trying it and for the feedback. Would you use it if you could set the keyboard shortcuts to mod+hjkl or something like that, rather than mod+arrow keys?
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by rxhanson 4y ago
Charmstone [1] is a different take from everything mentioned here (I'm the developer). The idea is to use your spatial memory to switch/launch apps faster than anything else that I've found, with a smaller learning curve and
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by rxhanson 4y ago
I did not, but will definitely do this if I hit this problem again (thanks for the link). I had reported it to the Google safe browsing pages multiple times over the past month and that had no effect, but going that legal reasons route seem
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by rxhanson 4y ago
Quick update that the fraudulent site has indeed been suspended. This restores some confidence that things can happen with reporting, and I think it just took more people reporting it to finally get a result.
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by rxhanson 4y ago
Thanks for the reply! For some reason I don't see rectanglemac as being suspended, but if it really is, then that would be great. Good to know that you've seen success going the registrar route. From what I've read online, Na
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by rxhanson 4y ago
Not sure if you've seen this issue in the tracking: https://github.com/rxhanson/RectanglePro-Community/issues/46 I am planning on adding some control into the UI for it, but no guarantees on a timeframe.
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by rxhanson 4y ago
Thanks for the feedback! This is definitely in the works, I just have to force myself to stop getting excited about coding new features and ideas and finally get back into video mode :)
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by rxhanson 4y ago
Thanks for the kind words! Glad you like it :)
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by rxhanson 4y ago
In Rectangle Pro [1], mentioned in the article, there is a feature built specifically for saving and loading layouts, in the “Applications” tab. The app is not free and I’m the developer. 1: https://rectangleapp.com/pro
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by rxhanson 5y ago
Rectangle dev here. You do not need to pay anything to get full functionality, including configuring the app any way you want. It's FOSS, after all. The Pro version of the app just has a lot of additional features. Here's a compar
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by rxhanson 5y ago
Rectangle dev here. Rectangle will get you some more window actions, as you can see in the GitHub readme [1]. There are also some hidden configurations beyond what's in the UI [2]. There's also a feature called todo mode that kin
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by rxhanson 5y ago
Rectangle dev here, I wrote a post about this a while back [1]. TL;DR The APIs are the same between the two, but there is the potential of a security risk with Spectacle. Something I didn't mention in that post is that Rectangle techni

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