Mac users struggle to control windows across displays
Mac users, especially those with multiple or ultrawide displays, want more control over window placement, app switching, the Dock, and display setups. The built-in controls don't match some users' preferred workflows, while third-party tools and workarounds can still require fiddly setup or fail to preserve the behavior they want. A utility can improve workspace control, but it cannot reliably fix every underlying monitor or connection failure.
For mac power users with multiple displays. Mentioned from Nov 2023 to Apr 2026 on Bluesky, GitHub and Hacker News.
14 different people described this problem in 13 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 7.0/10
- Pain
- 5.3/10
- Frequency
- 9.8/10
- Willingness to pay
- 3.8/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Consumers
- Competition
- High
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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Docking stations + Multi-Monitors. TONS broken here. Worst of all is how there's no way to just FIX the dock to a single screen's bottom
Switching between several windows of the same application isn't a simple Alt-Tab; the green button enters full screen mode (KDE/Windows F11 Full Screen is equivalent) instead of leaving just the menu bars and application bar on screen; tiling windows isn't as simple as ramming the application against the border you wan…
GuestHNUser on Hacker NewsNov 2023
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