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Micromanage Your Widescreen Monitor with AutoSizer
Posted by Adam Pash at 6:00 AM on October 31, 2007
Windows only: Freeware application AutoSizer automatically resizes and moves application windows to specific, user-defined sizes and screen locations as soon as they're opened. That means that if you've got a widescreen monitor with the perfect window layout that packs every last pixel with useful information, you can save each window size and location with AutoSizer and restore the perfect layout automatically, day after day, as soon as you launch the applications. Alternately, if you'd prefer an application to open maximised or minimised, AutoSizer can take care of that, too. AutoSizer is freeware, Windows only. For similar but manual takes on screen real estate maximisation, check out Sizer and WinSplit Revolution.
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murph
Posted 5:10 PM 30/10/07
must. find similar. application. for Mac OS X.
as a Win>Mac convert, the lack of minimize/maximize buttons in OS X is killing me. there has to be something out there for Mac. i use Sizer on my PC.
murph
chris-mcc
Posted 6:11 PM 30/10/07
Nice, I just recently got a widescreen monitor and rather than waste screen real-estate on having my browser be huge I the Maxthon2 window to 1024 wide and now I can fit other programs beside and still see all of a website.
chris-mcc
Eliot Phillips
Posted 7:05 PM 30/10/07
I recently got a Matrox DualHead2Go digital edition to use with my MacBook Pro. Now I've to 3840x1200 desktop across 2 24" monitors. Only problem is, all dialog boxes pop up right in the center of the screen split. I wish there was a simple fix for this.
Eliot Phillips
NineTailedFox
Posted 6:46 PM 30/10/07
Agree with Murph. You seem to be able to do some of this stuff with AppleScripts... [www.macosxhints.com] ...but it's hardly ideal.
NineTailedFox
JFitzpatrick
Posted 2:15 PM 31/10/07
@Eliot Phillips:
I flexed a lil more google-fu and found something that might help. Here is a link to the manual for your product: [www.matrox.com]
From pgs 11-12 there is a setup guide for how to set the settings using windows (in the display dialog box with the proper drivers loaded.) I tried to find a mac manual on the site but they don't have one... so at any rate, I'd do some digging in the support section yourself or just bust open the display options and see if there is a setting for dialog boxes.
JFitzpatrick
JFitzpatrick
Posted 2:02 PM 31/10/07
@Eliot Phillips: Check your drivers or update the drivers you have. Most video cards support a feature that forces the dialog box to the dominant screen (centered properly) Here is an example of someone discussing this same problem in regard to workign in Photoshop and having the dialog boxes split.
[www.adobeforums.com]
JFitzpatrick
MattWriks
Posted 1:41 PM 31/10/07
For OSX, I've used Forget-Me-Not with some success. It controls some, but not all. I call it good enough.
MattWriks
khamer
Posted 1:09 PM 3/11/07
For windows, I've always felt that allSnap was mandatory; makes window edges snap together, or lets you define a grid/guidelines to snap the windows to.
For linux (in particular Xubuntu), I've had trouble finding much that really works as well as allSnap, most only work on positioning, not resizing. But, a lot of the basic WM's have it built in, as does compiz-fusion.
khamer
Ipsquiggle
Posted 1:22 AM 4/11/07
I have two monitors running at 1920x1200... that's a lot of screen space to cover! I've tried a number of programs just like Autosizer, and I've found that I usually don't WANT programs opening up in the same place every time. I found a better solution with HandyThing ([www.starfishbay.com]). Lets you map keyboard shortcuts to customizable positions on the desktop for windows, so basically you can fling windows around and resize them as needed with a single stroke.
Ipsquiggle