Suggestion: make Penc operate with a mouse

dgurkaynak / Penc

Trackpad-oriented window manager for macOS

https://deniz.co/penc/

MIT License

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Suggestion: make Penc operate with a mouse #5

Closed telmofcosta closed 3 years ago

telmofcosta commented 5 years ago

Suggestion: make Penc operate with a mouse.

I understand that Penc is Trackpad-oriented, so feel free to reject this, but moving already works with a normal mouse when dragging with the left button.

Resizing could be done:

using the scroll wheel; or
dragging with the middle button, resizing from the right bottom corner, emulating the feature I most miss on Mac OS since I stopped use Linux Gnome.

dgurkaynak commented 5 years ago

Hmm, the main target of this app is trackpad usage as you mentioned. Supporting standard mouses would be nice feature, but not in the near future.

Moving windows already works with dragging w/ left button
Using scroll wheel to resize sounds really cool
What about other swipe gestures for snapping into halves/quarters?

telmofcosta commented 5 years ago

Tbh, I don't use snap that much. And I tried it with the trackpad but it didn't feel very natural.

BetterTouchTool approach is not bad: when dragging, when the mouse pointer reaches an area near the corner (or top/bottom/left/right) of the viewport, it resizes the window and snaps it to a side/corner.

I didn't suggest this in the first place because this behavior is completely different from what Penc is doing now and my suggestion was supposed to be a small "fix".

What I really love in Penc (and why I'm using it with my mouse only to move windows) is the double-press with the modifier key: a very simple idea, pratical and it doesn't interfere with any shortcut I have. 💯

shiny commented 5 years ago

Using scroll wheel to resize sounds really cool

yup yup. @dgurkaynak By the way, do you accept donation, or translation for this cool project?

dkarbayev commented 5 years ago

@dgurkaynak what if snapping to halves was made with arrow keys (much like Windows does it), so double press Cmd and then arrow key(s)?

dgurkaynak commented 3 years ago

Hey guys, I have finally managed to ship Penc 1.0. It brings the support for mouse & keyboard.

Keyboard

While Penc is activated (double press cmd key + hold it):

Press arrow keys to do halves/quarters (just like @dkarbayev mentioned)
Enter key to fullscreen

Mouse support

While Penc is activated (double press cmd key + hold it):

Drag a window from its body to move it freely
Drag a window from its edges/corners to resize it freely (just like @telmofcosta mentioned)
Mouse wheel to resize (just like @telmofcosta mentioned)
Drag a window and throw it to a direction to do halves/quarters (just like trackpad swipe)
Double click to fullscreen
Right click to minimize

So closing the issue, let me know if you guys need anything else.