Every now and then i need to resize windows in Mac because of the simple reason that windows in Mac dont fit to fill the entire screen also they dont have maximize button which acts in a similar way to the maximize button in Windows OS. I really dont like the Mac’s approach of maximizing any window . Macs have a green button as a comparable control to Maximize button in Windows OS. This button has different behaviors - sometimes it increases the window size so as to fit the content ( Preview, Finder etc ) and sometimes it fills the entire screen ( Text Edit ). Thats why i generally pull the window to the size i want.
Resize Corner in Mac window
One thing here about Mac what i hate is that windows in Mac just have one corner ( right bottom ) from which i can pull it to resize the window. In Windows OS the case is different and i honestly think Windows OS has better handling of the resize window option. In Window OS any window can be resized from any four sides of a window. Resizing can be done from any four corners of the window as well and this kind of resizing is proportionate . See the flexibility Windows OS has given for a user to resize the windows. Other main thing i have faced in Mac is that when a window is little towards the bottom right of the screen you wont have much of space to resize that window . In this case you would move the window first to the extreme top left corner and pull from only one corner ( thats bottom right ) to resize it. Thats too much of task as compared to Windows OS where you can resize windows from 8 directions . So basically Mac’s score here is just 1 whereas Windows OS has score of 8 
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Resizing options in Windows OS
Well there is a Utility for Mac named MercuryMover which lets you resize and move windows without touching the mouse . Its totally useless and waste of money ( $24 .. who the hell will pay $24 for this total useless Utility ? ).
Because Mac saves the windows size state it becomes more irritating if you use multiple monitors which have different resolutions. Jeff has created an AppleScript which solves the problem and resizes window to fit the monitor resolution for some of the applications he uses most.
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Who wants to look at ugly borders around their windows all day? This is what I am looking at, there is nothing to grab apart from the scroll bar and resize corner on the right or the title bar at the top. I think we should call these documents rather than windows. A far more elegant solution: Macs 8 - Windows 1… for trying
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Duncan, I would rather post you a link to answer this..
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=6699134&postcount=33
and i agree with this user who posted this. I am using this link because i think he has used Macs for longer years than i have
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Sure everything is programmable. You could write an AppleScript or use software like Zooom/2to achieve what you want. But it comes down to a design choice and Apple made the right choice here.
Similarly there is really no need to have a window occupy the whole screen. The Green button is a Zoom button not a maximise button. It Zooms the window between a default state that the programmer set and the last state the user set for the window. So in iTunes the window zooms between a miniplayer window and whatever the user last used. It is meant to work like that because people like to work like that.
This is what using a Mac looks like
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Ya by programs you may be able to do whatever you like to do ( thats what computers are meant to be
). Here i compare between built-in features especially from a Windows user ( switcher ) perspective.
It Zooms the window between a default state that the programmer set
I think the green zoom button maximizes window to fit the content in the final window ( like for example Pdf document in Preview ? )..
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The green button will do whatever the programmer set as the standard state. These are Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines for programmers explaining Resizing and Zooming Windows.
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At this point it is usually relevant to note that with most window managers under Linux, you aren’t restricted to the edges of the window, but can resize or move it with the mouse *anywhere* in the window. So if Windows is 8, Linux must be over 9000.
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Why do these posts always turn into arguments about what is better and what is “right.” Please remember that what is best for one is not best for all. Furthermore, what is best for MOST is not best for all. Choice is a powerful thing and in my opinion should seldom be limited. I have been using both Windows and Macs for several years now, and love having this choice. In all honesty, from a user perspective, their differences are slight.
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I find it irksome too.
It’s nothing to do with borders as postulated by Duncan. Some apps - Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CS4 for instance - for Mac allow resizing from all sides and corners of a window in Leopard.
I suspect Apple are being dog-in-the-manger about this to avoid being accused of copying MS Windows. Seems silly though, Windows only survives by copying features of Macs.
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Stumbled on this site and I come the Windows world to Mac as well. What I hate most about the apple community is instead of trying to help solve the problem, they like to state this method is best and get use to it. There is no excuse why a window can’t be resized from any edge (or border) because aren’t most applications just square or rectangle type? When have you run into a circle, star, or heart? This excludes widgets, but even those applications have a bounding invisible box stating their dimensions can’t exceed this area.
So why is it so hard to tell an edge can be stretched? I find it such a waste of time doing it form one single corner. This goes double when you are sorting your applications just so you could see partially of one and the other. So I have to waste precious time moving the application then sizing it, moving it, sizing it, moving it, sizing it, etc.. Not to mention sometimes you get that application a bit too far to the left and there is no snapping feature to that boundary.
I did find an app called RightZoom which does modify the Zoom function and makes it go fullscreen (most of time). It isn’t perfect, but it has been useful other than writing a script of course. You can write a script, but that is just such a waste of my time. Not everyone is a programmer and not everyone understands that stuff. I am lucky enough that I can and even wrote a quit script which I use with Butler App. I made the quit script into an App and click on the icon to close the front most application. It took my awhile to get it working right by using the Cmd Tab feature to force the right application to the front since I was launching the script from another application.
Anyway all I am saying is a lot of wasted time is done by just doing it from one corner and the zoom feature should work like a maximize feature. If they want it to fit the application then give a special control, command, option key or another colorful dot for maximize and fit to application.
Also I miss tiling all open windows (applications) so they could automatically stretch to the screen. Why? I think I already explained that with stretching from any point. This would save me the time displaying all windows on the screen in the same time. No, expose will not do what I want it to do. I want it to be there permanently as I work in a different document. I might be comparing documents or one is for live view and one is for coding view. There are many reasons why I would have multiple windows open in the same time in view.
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Mac just sucks based on the following defects:
No window resizing
copy and paste is not as easy as on Linux
No good spreadsheet program, MS Excel runs like a snail
Expensive
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Pro-tip: Google for “NeoOffice”.
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“I did find an app called RightZoom which does modify the Zoom function and makes it go fullscreen (most of time).”
Holding down the “Option (alt)” key while clicking the green Zoom button will maximize the window, as well. Repeating this action will return the window to its previous size.
I agree that Windows 7 makes window management much easier, especially with all of the available keyboard shortcuts.
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I’m here also because I think that mac windows are ludicrously difficult to resize. I work with a pair of 20″ monitors running off a Mac Mini.
I am also a switcher, with 10 years experience in windows and a very frank and honest acknowledgments of how each OS has UI benefits for power users.
Zooom2 does offer an exceptionally good method for quickly resizing windows. It says no you don’t have to go to any corner (even though only one corner is actually available) and instead just hold the correct modifier keys and your window will move or resize.
The trouble is that I need this most for photoshop, where for its own weaknesses, the window sizes for different images needs to be resized all the time. For whatever reason, Zooom2 is less effective in resizing photoshop image windows. It moves them fine, but resizing I can’t seem to get it to work.
So I’m back to using that TINY little resize hit zone in the bottom left.
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Photoshop CS4 (and all CS4 apps) windows are resizeable from all corners and edges in OS X. Not sure about previous versions.
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@alan, this is not my experience, it is not enabled by default. Can you link out to discussion of this feature?
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@Rob, I no longer have CS4 for Mac - Apple got me mad and I sold it along with my iMac in $1 auctions
- I’ve mainly switched back to Windows, but resizing definitely worked with CS4 in Snow Leopard and Leopard and I don’t remember having changed default settings to enable it. I had the CS4 Design Premium Suite.
You may be best to try the Adobe forum or raise a query with Adobe.
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In KDE on Linux one can simply hold the alt key and click or right-click anywhere in a window to respectively move or resize the window. Re-arranging your desktop while multi-tasking has never been easier. Windows is as sluggish as Mac is compared to that solution.
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I really don’t find it that big of a problem for me