Window max/min width in a row: provide alternative for ultrawide monitors

[singalen]

Is your feature suggestion related to a problem? Please describe. I have an ultrawide monitor that I use on and off. The switcher either too big on one of them, or too small on the other.

Describe the solution you'd like Maybe an alternative way to specify a window size would help? In pixels or points, or somehow else taking screen DPI into account? Maybe take screen height into account too?

Describe alternatives you've considered Only manually changing the settings each time I disconnect/reconnect the monitor.

[lwouis]

I'm a bit confused with the premise. If you have a very wide monitor, that's in order to make use of this space, right? So I'm surprised you don't want AltTab to expand and make use of it? I imagine if you play a movie or a game you set it up to fill the screen, no?

Could you maybe clarify what the problem is? Screenshots would help illustrate I think

[jediwade]

@lwouis taking a guess as to what the user was saying. When he uses an ultra-wide monitor with default preferences of max-width 80%, he is possibly experiencing a super-wide, single-row list of apps which might be hard to read at a glance (assuming there are just enough app windows open to occupy the entire width). So he reduces the max-width to give more of a box look with multiple rows on the ultra-wide. When he switches back to a regular monitor (or laptop screen), the reduced max-width is too small and causes everything to be crunched together. So his proposed solution is to provide a max-width in pixels so that it can work for 4:3, 16:9, or 21:9 ratios without having to change the preferences every time he changes monitors. Although that would present challenges if a user has both a 4k and 1080p monitor attached. Maybe offer a max-width in pixels and a fallback to max-width in percent if the pixel value entered is larger than the display it is displayed on?

[lwouis]

Yes, the answer is most likely either per-screen configuration (fancy) and/or pixel max-size (easy/practical). There is already a ticket for fixed-sized: https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos/issues/1107

Closing as duplicate