Hookshot

Cursor movement window snapping on macOS

7 followers

Cursor movement window snapping on macOS

7 followers

⦿ Snap windows by pressing a modifier key and moving your cursor ⦿ Snap windows with keyboard shortcuts or by dragging windows to the edge of the screen ⦿ Move & resize windows by holding a modifier key and moving your cursor ⦿ Snap windows not in focus

Launch tags:Mac•Productivity•Developer Tools

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Maybe Penc app is more intuitive and it's FREE.

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6yr ago

@sunnyheart Never heard of Penc, and what's not intuitive about this Hookshot app?

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6yr ago

Charmstone

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@sunnyheart If Penc does it for you, that's awesome. Hookshot is built on Rectangle, so you also get keyboard shortcuts and dragging the window to screen edges for moving/resizing. Penc is also built for trackpad usage, while Hookshot's cursor movement can be used with any mouse or trackpad. Hookshot is also built a little more with speed in mind.

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6yr ago

Maybe BetterTouchTool app is more intuitive

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6yr ago

Charmstone

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@mihailtugushev To each their own on what they find intuitive 🙂 Although BetterTouchTool has some functionality that overlaps with Hookshot, I don't really see Hookshot as something that's aimed at the BetterTouchTool market. I see it more for users that just want a quick, lightweight way to get windows where they want them - not users that want to change the behavior of their mac in all sorts of ways imaginable.

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6yr ago

@xryan sorry, not described. I made the intuitive move Windows by gestures. I need a separate utility and additional expenses. Example — https://d.pr/i/EhiHmP. Enough move three fingers to change the location of the window or use extra shortcuts to change the size of the windows.

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6yr ago

Charmstone

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@mihailtugushev Thanks for the additional info! I'm not trying to win over BetterTouchTool users that already have a workflow they prefer, but allow me to state some counter-points that may be valuable to other users. 1. Hookshot cursor gestures can be performed with any mouse or trackpad. 2. I do agree that the three finger swipes are about as intuitive as it gets for gestures, but I find that I actually prefer the default behavior from macOS for three and four finger swipes. I'd prefer not to change those using a 3rd party tool, and BetterTouchTool does have a learning curve for getting everything just right if you do decide to go that route. After a bit of Hookshot usage, I found that the cursor gestures were just as nice for me, personally. 3. As a 3rd party application, listening to trackpad input does incur a CPU cost (I developed the Multitouch app that also allows users to configure trackpad gestures, and this is something that I always have tried to minimize). That might not be of concern to you, especially if you are plugged in all the time, but Hookshot's cursor gestures only incur CPU usage when the configured modifier keys are pressed. 4. I'm in the camp that has used BetterTouchTool in the past and found it to be very unstable. I know I'm not alone as I've seen a lot of other users report this, although maybe we're in the minority? That's actually why I wrote the Multitouch app in the first place. The last straw was when I had to force restart my mac just to stop BetterTouchTool from exploding and restarting itself constantly just so I could delete it. At the time I only had three finger click configured on it. I completely understand if you're already attached to BetterTouchTool, but to me Hookshot is a nice in-between where you still get quick performant gesture based window movement and all the benefits of a fully featured window manager, without the overhead of something built with way more features that you may not need.

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6yr ago

Very cool.

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6yr ago

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