rxhanson
commented
1 year ago Sorry for the delayed response; thanks for the detailed report. I haven't been able to reproduce this. I tried mirroring my larger display to a smaller one and vice-versa, and Rectangle is functioning properly. There are a few missing log lines here, where for each attempt to move/resize a window there would be a resize, move, and another resize. Perhaps including all of the logs for move/resize action would paint a clearer picture of which step is failing here?
Since I can't reproduce it, we could be looking at an edge case of the accessibility API that could be hard to narrow down.
zacthompson
macOS version: 12.6 Rectangle version: 0.69
workaround: For now, I'm just not doing the mirroring.
I'm using an external monitor and I usually keep my macbook open (for the camera to be usable if desired). But because my main monitor is so wide (34" : 3440x1440), I don't like to have app windows on the small laptop screen: I'd surely miss notifications or whatever. So I set up the macbook display to act as a mirror of the external monitor. Note: not the other way around -- the screen resolution is optimized for the external monitor, and a scaled copy of it shows on the laptop screen.
When I try to resize an app window to thirds, halves, or other layouts, the window flashes and partially resizes, but not to the extent intended. I can get close (but seemingly not 100% there) by punching the hotkey repeatedly (many times).
Logs did not provide much useful insight: the coordinates shown would have been accurate if they had actually taken effect. Repeated triggering of the resize just shows the exact same sizing/position in the logs, even though the window approaches the actual target size more closely with each invocation:
Perhaps of interest: when mirroring, the "single" screen is only shown in the Rectangle logs as "Built-in Display". This is different than what is shown when I have both screens active (which is either "Built-in Retina Display", or the monitor model name):