Tile windows from the green button
The three coloured dots do more than close, minimise and maximise — hold the green one.
Works on: macOS Sequoia 15 and later · checked on macOS Golden Gate 27
Published: · Source: Genius Manu
The three dots at the top left of every window map onto what Windows puts on the right, but in a different order: red closes, yellow minimises, green resizes.
Green is the interesting one. A plain click sends the window full screen into a space of its own. But hold the pointer over it without clicking and a menu drops down with layouts: under Move & Resize, halves and quarters of the screen; under Fill & Arrange, the whole desktop or several windows side by side. Hold ⌥ while the menu is open and more layouts appear.
Two notes that catch people out. Closing a window with the red button usually does not quit the app — it keeps running, and the Dock shows a dot under its icon. To actually quit, press ⌘ + Q. And a window sent full screen moves to its own desktop, so swipe sideways with three or four fingers to come back.
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