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Implement Side-By-Side windows on Mac OSX

Open XeJames opened this issue 4 years ago • 13 comments

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Opening multiple windows side-by-side has been implemented in Windows, but is still not implemented on Mac OS.

It would be nice if the Mac version of OnlyOffice also allowed users to view one or more documents while editing another.

XeJames avatar Aug 10 '21 11:08 XeJames

There was discussion about this in https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors/issues/41#issuecomment-894782766

and sometimes earlier, not sure why original issue is clode, but we'll track in this issue all new requests https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors/issues/363

There is issue 35421 in our private issue tracker to discuss it with our dev team

ShockwaveNN avatar Aug 10 '21 11:08 ShockwaveNN

Sounds great. Thanks so much. Looking forward to this being implemented.

XeJames avatar Aug 10 '21 12:08 XeJames

I'll leave this issue opened until we implement this feature

ShockwaveNN avatar Aug 10 '21 12:08 ShockwaveNN

Are there any updates on this? This would be really useful in macOS

vkredxyz avatar Jun 22 '22 14:06 vkredxyz

@vkredxyz Sorry, there is no news

If you really need this feature - please contact [email protected]

ShockwaveNN avatar Jun 22 '22 14:06 ShockwaveNN

No problem, I'm just a regular user and for now I have found a workaround. In terminal you can use open -n ONLYOFFICE (replace ONLYOFFICE with the .app location) and a new instance of the editor will be opened. Just make sure not to have the same file open in the same two instances. Everything seems to work fine

vkredxyz avatar Jun 22 '22 15:06 vkredxyz

open -n ONLYOFFICE should be put in the menu File -> New window. Is there a way to detach a tab as a separate window?

iambudi avatar Nov 03 '22 06:11 iambudi

Coming from Linux on MacOS makes me really miss that feature!! Can't wait for the team to add it to the MacOS edition ;-) Having that drag & drop feature with the tabs is a great implementation!

TailRotor avatar Dec 08 '22 05:12 TailRotor

This is a really important feature to have and it's still not implemented on the macOS.

buerki avatar Aug 29 '23 15:08 buerki

Any news about this issue? I can't believe there is no solution for this problem since 2021. This is a really annoying bug for macOS users. Please, do something about this.

dezso-markon avatar Oct 30 '23 10:10 dezso-markon

Status update please. I'm baffled that this isn't in macOS but is in Windows and Linux.

yllekz avatar Nov 10 '23 14:11 yllekz

Hello, yes an update on this would be really nice :)

patermatzka avatar Jan 09 '24 17:01 patermatzka

FYI I think I've come up with a workaround for macOS:

  1. Open OnlyOffice like normal for window 1
  2. Open Terminal and run this command: open -n -a onlyoffice
  3. Repeat step 2 for as many windows as you need

YMMV in terms of how stable this is but it appears to be a way around the window limitation in macOS. Definitely need it to be a regular feature like on Windows/Linux however.

Edit: Wow I should scroll up more often, but hey.

yllekz avatar Jan 30 '24 21:01 yllekz