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December 7

Mac window behavior

Recently in MacOS, when I drag a window laterally by its title bar, sometimes it blows up to nearly fill the screen. Why? —Tamfang (talk) 23:23, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Presumably the window has a maximized state and you're switching to that state. Perhaps your mouse movement is being misunderstood as a touchscreen swiping gesture, if such a maximize gesture exists on the OS, and perhaps you can switch gestures off in the settings. Another possibility is that your mouse has a fault (low battery or a broken button) and is sending double-click messages sometimes, making the window maximize in response to a double-click on its title bar, if those are understood by the OS as maximize. Do you find the title bar slips from your grasp sometimes, as well? That would imply a mouse hardware fault. Card Zero (talk) 00:13, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The double-click hypothesis is at least worth testing next time it happens. —Tamfang (talk) 22:04, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, double-clicking merely expanded the window further. —Tamfang (talk) 04:47, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Are you using a trackpad? Touching it with several fingers can alter the meaning of a gesture. --Lambiam 18:52, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for trying, but no. —Tamfang (talk) 04:48, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps I'm not giving enough weight to the possibility that MacOS is intentionally being annoying without any special provocation. Could it be this, automatic window sizing caused by Tiling, a feature that enables quick snapping and resizing of windows? But by the sound of it this should cause windows, when dragged near screen edges, to go fully fullscreen, not just (if I understand your report correctly) kind of sorta bigger. Still, it's a recent and evidently annoying change to window behavior when windows are dragged, so the circumstantial evidence is strong. Try turning off Tiling? Card Zero (talk) 07:27, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Plausible. I have now done so. —Tamfang (talk) 23:45, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

… and have not seen the problem recur.

Resolved

—Tamfang (talk) 21:53, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]