#Bettertouchtool window move windows#

⇧⌃ (Shift-Control) is the left monitor (when it’s in portrait) 2 ⌃⌥ (Control-Option) is the left monitor (when it’s in landscape)

The modifiers are a bit more nuanced but still make sense. The number pad is the “map” of the screen. I hold down 2 modifiers and then hit a key on the number pad. I also have them mapped to a Stream Deck profile that has buttons for each position as well. This is used when I’m on my laptop and don’t have the number pad. I have a second hotkey trigger that triggers a conflict palette. One is my “spatial” shortcut, which is a combination of some modifiers and the number pad. They are triggered via one of two keyboard shortcuts, called a “hotkey trigger” in Keyboard Maestro. The TriggersĪll of these window positions are individual Keyboard Maestro macros. There is no UI, so you don’t see a Moom-like grid, and there’s no drag-to-the-edge action, but I run all this from my keyboard, so none of that interests me. Once everything is set up, it works just as well (better, in my opinion) in Keyboard Maestro as it does with any other dedicated app. We’ll get to the nitty-gritty in a bit, but first, let’s talk basics… A DisclaimerĪny of the tools mentioned above, and many more, can do this with less finicky pre-programming.

For this post, the “more” is window management. I use it for a bunch of stuff like text replacement, UI scripting, keyboard shortcut overrides, adding keyboard shortcuts to apps that don’t have them, running scripts, performing API calls, and more. Keyboard Maestro can do eleventy-billion things. If you’re a Keyboard Maestro user, maybe you don’t need any other tools.

There is Moom, Better Touch Tool, Better Snap Tool 1, Mosaic, Magnet, Veeer, and probably 40 others.

#Bettertouchtool window move windows#

There are lots of tools in the world that can manage your windows on the Mac.