When using using the new Applications feature to save a window size for the System Preferences, System Preferences will not respond to restoring.

As per Homebrew/homebrew-cask#117517, https://rectangleapp.com/pro/ (with the trailing /) doesn't look right, whereas https://rectangleapp.com/pro (without the trailing /) is fine.

Repro

1. Export your Rectangle Pro config.
2. Change the menu bar icon.
3. Import your config back.

What happens

The menu bar icon in the settings changes back but not the icon in the menu bar.

What should happen

The menu bar icon in the settings and in the menu bar should both revert back.

I'm using version 2.4 (111)

Most of your hotkey shortcuts are iterations off of a foundational shortcut.
Is it possible to make this 'master' shortcut alterable such that the user doesn't need to change each shortcut manually / individually if they otherwise stick to the defaults.

Examples:

I'd like to change all of the default Ctrl+Alt+[modifer] to Shift+fn+[modifier].
I'd like to change all of the default Alt+[modifier] to fn+[modifier].

MacOS 12.3.1
Rectangle Pro v2.4

I can trigger Window Throw just fine with a keyboard shortcut or trackpad gesture, but when I try to map a mouse button I find that it frequently appears to stick the cursor to that point on the screen, only releasing when I hit ⌥

This occurs regardless of the mouse button I use as trigger and irrespective of the keyboard trigger set.

I'm using a Logitech MX Master 3 without Options+ installed and any other mouse controlling software disabled.

I use Craft (https://craft.do), and I think that enabling Rectangle's multitouch trackpad gesture to trigger mouse throw (I'm using three down + lift two and it's so great!) is preventing or slowing click recognition in that app. Selecting documents and navigating in menus in Craft are either delayed/slow, or require a double-click. It's hard to identify the behavior exactly because it seems inconsistent or slowed so much that it's hard to pin down.

Disabling mouse throw returns Craft to normally behaving, and using keyboard navigation in Craft is unaffected.

I think Craft is built with Catalyst. Maybe that has some conflicts with Rectangle's behavior? Thanks!

Hi @rxhanson! Love the app so far. Specifically the Reveal Desktop Edge and the setting to move windows to adjacent display on repeated commands. Really great stuff.

I have a couple of requests:

1. The ability to set the distance on the Reveal Desktop Edge. I can see one column of files/icons and half of the second row currently.
2. It would be great to add 1x2 Tiles under Multiple Windows. I know I can use the Left Half and Right Half commands, but this requires moving one and focusing on the other to then move it. I think I can speed that up with Window Throws now, but wanted to ask if this is a possibility.

Thanks again!

2x2 and 2x3 tiles are ignoring the dock on my 14" M1 pro, which makes the feature kind of useless (in an otherwise amazing software!). I do not see any settings that would allow me to fix this, so I'm assuming this is a bug.

Here is what happens if I use the bottom left option (dock is taken into account, works perfectly)

Here is what happens if I use the 2x2 Tiles option (this behavior is what I would expect if my dock was on top)

Summary

If CleanShot X is running, Rectangle Pro / Save Current Layout... does not capture any window information.

Here is a demo reproducing the bug:

Environment

System Info

macOS Monterey
Version 12.4
MacBook Pro (13-inch, M1. 2020)
Chip Apple M1
Memory 16 GB

Rectangle

Rectangle Version 2.4.7

Scenario:
In a browser with multiple tabs, hit a keyboard shortcut to pull the current tab into a new window
From there it's easy to follow up with other commands to resize, throw to a different display, etc

Don't know if this is possible, but thought worth sharing the idea. It's one of the few places I still frequently use the mouse to manipulate windows.

At least for Chrome I don't see a built in shortcut to support this: see Tab and window shortcuts
Didn't check the others

Custom shortcuts should have the same behavior as the defaults on vertical display. (or at least give the option)
For example:

• sixths are divided into two rows on the minimum/shortest display length min(WIDTH, HEIGHT).
• fourths are divided into four columns on the maximum display length max(WIDTH, HEIGHT) so they go sideways when horizontal and down when vertical.
• etc.

I think the simplest way to do this without any calculation is just to retain the display's width and height as horizontal orientation.
So the HEIGHT will always be shorter than the WIDTH even on vertical orientation. (tho I'm not sure this is possible).

The window throw trigger is great, but it needs a dead zone so that you can more easily continue using that button for other things. I.e. if you assign it to the middle button right now, it becomes hard to use that button to close tabs in a browser or for other things. It would be better if it didn't engage until you had moved the mouse maybe 10 pixels in any direction.

Rectangle Pro version: 2.4.7
macOS: 12.1.3
Device: MacBook Pro (16-inch 2019)

Hi! New user who loves RP very much here!

Normally I use the Repeated commands move to adjacent display on left and right setting, which gives the delightful effect of cycling through the different "slots" at the given width.But it's not working, and when I change the setting none of the other options work either.

Similarly my "Custom Shortcuts" that have "2nd Execution" etc. aren't working.

In all cases, subsequent invocations of the command result in the window kind of flashing out of place, like it's trying to take the next position, but then immediately flashing back into the position of the first invocation.

It's super weird!

IMO it started when the app updated a few days ago.

I have tried restarting my computer and the app several times.

Thanks for any help you can offer. Not sure if it's just me or maybe a larger problem.

I can use "Add Group" in the Applications tab to save the layout of multiple windows on my display...

But now that my Layout is saved, how can I use it?

Constantly my windows move around for different reasons. I want to press a key and all 3-8 of the windows in that layout get moved back to their saved positions.

How do I do this?

thanks!

Upgraded from Hookshot to Rectangle Pro 2.1 (101) and I notice the drag windows to screen edges to snap does not work anymore. I am on MacOs Montery 12.1, MacBook Pro 2.9 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i9.

Initially after the update, when the app name still remained Hookshot.app the issue was there. I uninstalled and reinstalled the rectangle pro to have the app name as rectangle pro, then also the drag to snap does not work. Please help.

I have an 5120x1440 ultrawide monitor which supports being hooked up to two different devices, in which case the left and right halves of the screen can show different devices. In my case, I plug both into the same Mac Mini for a bezel-less dual monitor setup. For this to work, by the way, I also need to disable "Displays have separate Spaces" in the Mission Control System Preferences or else windows that span these displays are cut off by MacOS. When set up like this, though, I can manually make windows span both displays in a nice and seamless way while also letting me do Zoom screen shares that don't infuriate my colleagues.

Anyway, I'm having an issue in which, while Rectangle Pro can detect display-spanning windows (e.g., when creating custom shortcuts from an application that I've maximized across both displays), it can't actually play such positions back. As an example, if I manually maximize a Chrome instance so that it spans both displays, when creating a custom shortcut, I get options like this:

Unfortunately, when I assign a shortcut to this custom position, running it has no effect. It's almost as if some internal enforcement mechanism prevents it even though that same mechanism doesn't come in to play when detecting the dimensions/positions of windows. I'm happy to create all my weird display-spanning shortcuts in this way manually if only Rectangle Pro would let me activate them.

Happy to supply any logs or anything else, as needed.

This doesn't appear in Alt+Tab or the dock.
(It does appear in HyperSwitch though..)

Since the preferences pane often leads to testing the actions being set, actions frequently obscure the preferences window. It thus becomes difficult to return to, without going to the menu bar (if it's enabled) and mousing way down. (Spotlight/Alfred isn't so bad a means, but it's less intuitive in the moment.)

Not a showstopper, but worth logging a note.

Ctrl+alt+arrows is a weird default, since that combo is fairly universal to any text box in any software, allowing for word jump.
Shift+ctrl+alt+arrows is similar - word jump highlighting/selection.

Recommendation:

Make Ctrl+Cmd+arrows default (unless you can think of an existing universal hotkey for that too).
Ctrl+Cmd + mouse movement is already a standard for window throw, so this checks out.

(Cmd could become quick throw if you wanted Cmd to be consistently associated with the app, but that's outside the scope here.)

Hello,

Thanks a lot for Rectangle, and I am now a user of Rectangle Pro after using i3 for a long time on Linux.

I am wondering if it would be possible to move a windows to a specific Desktop (I usually have a bunch of them with the browser on 1, terminal on 2, editor on 3 etc. Basically this: https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_moving_windows_to_workspaces, but on Mac :).

Cheers!

I have searched google and this forum, nb else seems to have reported this problem. I prefer keyboard shortcuts only for window mngmt and DONT want my windows to snap to random sizes (for my setup) each time I drag them about a little (to quickly look at something behing the front window for instance). I disabled this in Preferences, I can also confirm to have no other window manager active (I did however use magnet and spectactle and moom before), and still, when I move a window to the top for instance, it will snapp to full size (not full screen). Its driving me nuts and makes Rectangle unusable, almost every time I move a window it will change size. I believe the culprit is window throw - but I dont see any option to disable it.
Please let me know if you need logs or a screen recording.
Cheers
Rudi

• This is a new bug that hasn't been documented in a closed issue or in the Readme.

macOS version: macOS Monterey
Rectangle version: Rectangle Pro 2.4.1
Logs if applicable (In Rectangle menu, hold option, "View Logging..."):

If I use the "hookshoot" snapping feature, I can snap a window in the bottom right 4th of the screen, but if I drag a window with the mouse to the bottom right corner, I get a system error sound and nothing occurs. Ill try to dig into it more and provide more details. Maybe I can create a screenshot video later today.

Unable to set custom shortcut control+option for Move option under Window Throw.

It says "This setting would conflict with what you have set for Next Display". While the Next Display is the default shortcut different from what I want to set for the Move. I cleared the shortcut for Next Display, still it keeps prompting the same. While pressing the shortcut that I want to set, the log says Nil calculation result.

Tested in both Rectangle Pro 2.0 and 2.1. The control+option conflicts with Next Display and Restore in these versions respectively. I am on MacOs Montery 12.1, MacBook Pro 2.9 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i9.

I'm a customer that bought Hookshot. I'm constantly switching between my 4 MacBooks and was trying to update the one I use the least today, only to find out that trying to activate Rectangle Pro using my license code simply tells me that code has already been used:

Thus I went out to find information about your license model on your websites, but was unable to find any information.

Please add that information to your websites.

Would it be possible to add mouse button trigger for the Move and Resize options? The mouse button trigger would work together with the keyboard modified.

That would allow for both Move and Resize actions to have the same keyboard trigger (let's say both are triggered with option + command) but differentiated with mouse button triggers ( + left click triggers move, + right click triggers resize).

Hi there!

Here is a new and proud owner of Rectangle PRO!
An excellent piece of software for all those who love productivity!

I have a question, which may be resolved, I have used a betterTouchTool trial and some applications from the Ms Windows world, which allow dragging a window to show the areas where we could snap them. In case you don't remember the shortcuts. Maybe it is similar to Window Throw, but not exactly the same.

For example, if we drag a window and keep presed some modificator key the Footprint of snap areas appear and we can Throw the window in one of this areas.

Is this possible with Rectangle ?

I can only get gestures to work in Excel for Mac when starting with the cursor over the window title bar. Of course, this 100% defeats the purpose of gestures.

I've been using Hookshot since June 2021, and I could swear gestures worked in Excel at first.

The same behavior has been observed on an Intel Mac running Big Sur and on an M1 running Monterey, updated to Rectangle Pro 2.0.

macOS version: 12.4
Rectangle version: 2.4.2

I can't set the modifier for Windows Throw > Move to use: double Command key

Actually, I use Penc for the move using the double on Command key and Rectangle for everything else 😞

Please implement the same thing on Rectangle/Rectangle Pro

Just discovered Rectangle Pro. Fantastic UX. Thank you for this software.

I have a couple of feature requests one feature request.

1. Allow Rectangle Pro to move / resize background windows.
2. Add option for (custom) modifier key to bring hovered window to front.

Thank you for considering.

Great for those of us using an ultrawide monitor.

Not sure how hard this is to implement, but I recall seeing this in another app.

Scenario:

1. One app snapped to the right half of the screen, and one app each snapped to the top-left, and bottom-left quarter.
2. Resize the app that is snapped to the right half with the mouse, for example making it bigger by extending it to the left.
3. Both apps on the left side should adapt and be reduced in size, to maintain the established grid

Hi, I'm a big fan of Rectangle and recently wanted to buy RectPro (because it's more powerful).
Just today I downloaded and used the trial (for consideration), and apparently it always crashes when I want to setup all the shortcut keys.

My changes aren't reset, but they're pretty unusable as it crashes very quickly after just viewing or changing some settings (e.g. reticle colour, keyboard / custom shortcuts). Any help or update?

What I've done:

• Closed all windows management apps (Rectangle and Magnet)
• Update the app (as prompted)
• Tried to open it with Rosetta (because I'm using M1 Mac mini)
• Checked the Ignore "Rectangle Pro" window button
• Re-launch the app
• Log out and Restart

All of those did not resolve the issue

I'm using M1 Mac mini with 8GB ram on macOS Monterey 12.2.1

Beyond core snapping and keyboard shortcut functionality, I don't understand what some of the additional features are, others I kind of do but know I'm not using them to their full capabilities. The info boxes only help so much and I've yet to find good explainers on youtube or anywhere else.

I think a series of short videos explaining each feature specifically would be very helpful - especially when new functionality is released - as would videos showing best practices and recommended usage. I think this would help ensure we all get to fully experience the results of your continued hard work and possibly help convert more users to the paid version of Rectangle as well.

Thank you for your consideration (and everything you continue to build)

When I activate Pin Mode the pinned item sits the exact distance off the left side as the pinned application width.

Below are two screenshots of this issue

Pin Mode Active with Pinned Item Sublime Text

Pin Mode deactivated with Pinned Item Sublime text after reflow

Pin Mode deactivated with notes open over the pinned item Sublime Text

Hi There,

I think this bug came about when I upgraded from Rectangle to Rectangle Pro, I merged over my config and now I have a Reflow ToDo and Reflow Pin, I note that from everything I can see there should not be a Reflow ToDo in Rectangle Pro only the Reflow Pin.

This means that the Reflow shortcut does not work. I think this is because the shortcut is being captured by Reflow ToDo and doing nothing.

Screenshot Below

Having an issue where every time I attempt to use the app it prompts for authorization to be given in system prefs but access is already granted, app is updated to latest version which has not fixed the issue. Working flawlessly previously for many weeks. Revoked access, restarted macbook, granted access again and behaviour persists, unsure what else I could try.

OS Monterey 12.4

• [ yes] This is a new bug that hasn't been documented in a closed issue or in the Readme.

macOS version: Monterey 12.3.1
Rectangle version:2.4(111) pro
Logs if applicable (In Rectangle menu, hold option, "View Logging..."): Not applicable because rectangle failed to obtain window.

As per title, rectangle log would have shown Obtained window from window number under cursor for normal windows. But for iterm hotkey windows, this log will never show up.

The consequence is, obviously, hotkey windows will not be resized by shortcuts. Sometimes the shortcut is passed through to another application window focused before, or sometimes nothing happens. However, the window throw feature triggered by ctrl + cmd works fine. If I disable the Floating window option, it also works fine.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Close all pre-existing iterm windows
2. Create/edit an iterm profile by Preferences->Profiles->(Select a profile)->Keys->(check A hotkey opens a dedicated window)->assign a hotkey->(Check Floating window)
3. Create a new iterm window by pressing the assigned hotkey.
4. The new window does not respond to rectangle shortcuts.

I do not have this problem in another app magnet and I have ensured magnet was closed when found the problem.

• This is a new bug that hasn't been documented in a closed issue or in the Readme.

macOS version: 12.3.1
Rectangle version: 2.3.2
Logs if applicable (In Rectangle menu, hold option, "View Logging..."):
2022-04-25T14:44:58-05:00: AX sizing proposed: (1250.0, 1455.0), result: (1250.0, 1455.0)
2022-04-25T14:45:02-05:00: Window is not snappable or usable screen is not valid
2022-04-25T14:45:02-05:00: Nil calculation result
2022-04-25T14:45:02-05:00: AX sizing proposed: (598.0, 597.0), result: (743.0, 572.0)
2022-04-25T14:45:02-05:00: AX position proposed: (457.0, 594.0), result: (457.0, 594.0)
2022-04-25T14:45:02-05:00: AX sizing proposed: (598.0, 597.0), result: (743.0, 572.0)
2022-04-25T14:45:02-05:00: manual | display: (0.0, 80.0, 3840.0, 1495.0), calculatedRect: (457.0, 594.0, 598.0, 597.0), resultRect: (457.0, 594.0, 743.0, 572.0), srcScreen: DELL U3818DW, destScreen: DELL U3818DW, resultScreen: DELL U3818DW
2022-04-25T14:45:02-05:00: AX sizing proposed: (598.0, 597.0), result: (598.0, 597.0)
2022-04-25T14:45:02-05:00: AX position proposed: (457.0, 594.0), result: (457.0, 594.0)
2022-04-25T14:45:02-05:00: AX sizing proposed: (598.0, 597.0), result: (598.0, 597.0)
2022-04-25T14:45:02-05:00: manual | display: (0.0, 80.0, 3840.0, 1495.0), calculatedRect: (457.0, 594.0, 598.0, 597.0), resultRect: (457.0, 594.0, 598.0, 597.0), srcScreen: DELL U3818DW, destScreen: DELL U3818DW, resultScreen: DELL U3818DW
2022-04-25T14:45:02-05:00: Nil calculation result
2022-04-25T14:45:02-05:00: AX sizing proposed: (1210.0, 1415.0), result: (1210.0, 1455.0)
2022-04-25T14:45:02-05:00: AX position proposed: (2590.0, 65.0), result: (2590.0, 65.0)
2022-04-25T14:45:02-05:00: AX sizing proposed: (1210.0, 1415.0), result: (1210.0, 1415.0)
2022-04-25T14:45:02-05:00: manual | display: (0.0, 80.0, 3840.0, 1495.0), calculatedRect: (2590.0, 65.0, 1210.0, 1415.0), resultRect: (2590.0, 65.0, 1210.0, 1415.0), srcScreen: DELL U3818DW, destScreen: DELL U3818DW, resultScreen: DELL U3818DW
2022-04-25T14:45:02-05:00: Nil calculation result
2022-04-25T14:45:02-05:00: Nil calculation result

The issue I'm seeing is that my saved Application Layouts (snapshotted from an existing layout) appear to have the gap setting being mis-calculated. Actual gap specified in the settings is 20px, but measured value after using the shortcut is 60px.

https://cln.sh/hLD2gd <- Placed + Saved
https://cln.sh/cXl9mB <- Shortcut

Seeking means to enable/disable each pane, similar to the enable switch on the quick throw pane.

Since installing Monterey 12.4 update I can no longer get Rectangle to respect Apple's Podcasts app window positioning or size in my layout. This app had been respecting my layout settings on prior releases of Monterey. The app now always opens in the middle of the display regardless of how I have Rectangle configured. I've even deleted my previous layout and saved a new one with no luck.

I'm going to assume that since this started in the 12.4 update it's an macOS issue, but wanted to bring it to your attention, Ryan.

Thanks

• This is a new bug that hasn't been documented in a closed issue or in the Readme.

macOS version: Monterey
Rectangle version: Hookshot 2.0 (Rectangle Pro)

First of all, really love the app!

I did not know where to open the issue for Hookshot, couldn't find a support page.
The issue is that I am not able to long-throw a window to another monitor, is there a way to do that?
I see all the options in the long throw menu but none of it is for a different screen altogether. Is this supported?

Thanks!

See title: fn key doesn't function as a shortcut modifier

Example: Windows Arrow Keys.

Can place fn into shortcut box, but cannot perform the action when the fn key is involved.

Unhide windows that are hidden in the dock when restoring an application layout?

I have a layout set to launch all applications if they aren't already open. However, if I hide/minimize one of the windows of this group and re-issue the layout shortcut, it doesn't unhide the window to its proper location. Perhaps this can be a setting?

(Extracted from #46)

Cascade windows function leaves the windows too small, unusably small in my opinion. Can this be configured somehow?

Preferably the function would calculate the window size based on how many windows are being cascaded. More windows -> more space needed for cascading -> less space for the windows themselves. Less windows -> less space needed for cascading -> more space for the windows themselves.

Hello,

Just discovered the app and love it. Great job!

I was planning on replacing my current resize + move app, Hummingbird with Rectangle Pro. Unfortunately, it doesn't behave as expected.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Hold the resize button trigger (alt + ctrl) and move the mouse -> the window resizes correctly.
2. Press shift (so it activates the move button trigger) and continue moving the mouse

Bug: The window doesn't move at first and then, it jumps (as you can see in the video).

The only way to solve the issue is by releasing the resize button trigger before pressing the move window trigger. I guess this is a minor thing that might be happening only to me because of the triggers I'm using 😅 , but I'm so used to those already that I'd really appreciate if you could fix the issue.

Thanks a lot!

Awesome app that for sure!

I was wondering if it possible to save modified positions?

Cascading does not seem to work correctly on multi-display setups.

On my multi-display setup, cascading works correctly as long as I am working on the primary display. If I attempt to cascade windows on any of the other displays, the end result is that the windows are moved to seemingly arbitrary positions (but they are definitely not cascaded).

For example, here is a set of Safari windows on a secondary display (pre-cascade):

After applying cascade, these windows are all perfectly stacked on top of each other, giving the appearance of a single window:

If I try this same operation on my third display, the windows move to a different display entirely.

On multiple monitors, repeating the same hotkey moves the window to the other monitor. But for VLC, the window just stays on the same monitor and adjusts to an incorrect size.

Hi

I tried invoking the 2x2 using keyboard and mouse+modifier but nothing happens

Using the 3x3, it moves only 3 app windows up but they overlap, Although I have multiple windows, they are thrown to top half , 3 overlap.

Also when I pick a window for 3x3 it goes to middle and oveerides. doesn't retile the rest.

Using cascade , they don't stack properly.

I am using ver 2.3 just downloaded.

Hope to have a resolution. Thanks!

If you overwrite, there's no going back without nuking everything back to defaults.

When clicking to record, there's a button to cancel back out.
Could a button be added next to it which allows you to individually set back to that hotkey's default.