[Feature Request] Ignore Fullscreen Games

[Sly777]

Hey Ryan & Rectangle Team,

It would be really nice if there is possibility to ignore fullscreen apps or shortcut for ignore selected fullscreen app. Currently the problem is that rectangle continues to work when I play any game (or geforce now). I wanted to ignore them but rectangle pro doesn't show that app on the "ignore" item and some shortcuts just hit rectangle and it breaks the app. Maybe when "game mode" is on, rectangle could be ignored automatically.

Mostly I'm using "Window throw" feature of rectangle with Mouse (middle button), Maybe "Ignore" feature doesn't work together with "window throw with mouse" feature

MacOS: 14.2.1 Rectangle Pro: 3.0.15

Thanks!

[rxhanson]

Thanks for reporting. I actually view this as a bug - there's supposed to be some built in functionality for ignoring full screened apps and I'll have to investigate why this is not working for you.

[Sly777]

Thanks for the answer @rxhanson! My scenario is;

• Using the mouse's middle button hold to show the window throw
• I open any game (or fullscreen app) that I use the middle button on
• when I hold the middle button, it doesn't work on the app (not the rectangle) - probably the rectangle is blocking that click/hold event
• then I try to ignore the app, but rectangle loses the focus when I move the cursor to another desktop - I think it happens because the rectangle loses focus on the fullscreen app after moving to another desktop (When I say "moving to another desktop" means, it just standard behavior of Mac on fullscreen apps)
• in the end, I quit the rectangle to use the middle hold event on the other app

I hope this will help you to find the bug :)

[rxhanson]

I got a chance to look into this, and for me Rectangle Pro is behaving as I expect with a middle click (button 3) configured for window throw: it does not execute a window throw on a full screened app, and a middle click works as a normal middle click.

I only tried real quick with Safari, so maybe there is an issue with specific apps?

Note that ignoring an app via the menu bar menu won't ignore for the window throw, too, so this won't help your situation even if you had figured out a way to ignore an app.