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Arrange 2.0

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Arrange is the best solution to control position and size of applications' windows. With simple and intuitive mouse or keyboard operation, selected window can be repositioned and resized. There are predefined positions and sizes which can be selected from on screen menu or by keyboard shortcuts. There is also free form tool which allows to select position and size more precisely and additionally move window to other screen.Windows can also by resized and repositioned by dragging them to one of active zones which are located at the edges of each display.

What's New

Version 2.0:

New features:

extended shortcuts functionality,
extended Predefined Options and Free Form functionality,
separate menu bar icons for Predefined Options and Free Form,
improved Mac OS X 10.7 Lion compatibility,
new preferences window,
distinct settings for appearance of onscreen menu for Predefined Options and Free Form,
configurable visibility of menu bar icons.

Version 2.0:

New features:

extended shortcuts functionality,
extended Predefined Options and Free Form functionality,
separate menu bar icons for Predefined Options and Free Form,
improved Mac OS X 10.7 Lion compatibility,
new preferences window,
distinct settings for appearance of onscreen menu for Predefined Options and Free more...

Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later

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Runty reviewed on 23 Feb 2011

I checked out Arrange, Cinch, Sizeup, Divvy, and Optimal Layout, and I like Arrange best of all.

It looks like Arrange can do everything that Cinch, Sizeup, and Divvy can, except for the nice arbitrarily-configurable shortcuts in Divvy. Arrange certainly has a good number of shortcuts for several predefined actions, but it may be nice to also be able to assign shortcuts to custom freeform window arrangements in Arrange.

[Version 1.3.2]

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Runty replied on 23 Feb 2011

I really like arrange and would like to see this developed further. However, the developer tends to be a bit hostile in the comments here. The developer needs to realize that "customer service" may have a deciding effect on the commercial success of Arrange. Please be nice. :)

+338

Cowicide commented on 28 Jan 2011

one last gripe, don't like that I don't have the option to remove the menubar arrows up there and have another way of accessing preferences, etc. I've got enough stuff in my menubar already without adding more to it with something that should be a simply windows manager.

[Version 1.3.2]

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Trifle (developer) replied on 31 Jan 2011

Once again wrong place to do improvement requests. Other users already email us about need of this feature so it will be available in version 1.4.

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Cowicide replied on 07 Feb 2011

Thanks, dev!

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Cowicide commented on 27 Jan 2011

I found the preferences, it was hard to spot. Hoped the free form tool would allow for exact positioning of some windows, but it instead only allows for using a grid of varying resolution.

[Version 1.3.2]

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Trifle (developer) replied on 31 Jan 2011

There is movie on our web page which shows how to use Arrange. It is only 2 minutes long so probably instead of trying to figure out everything on yourself you could watch it and omit "hard to spot" part.
Zone resize and predefined options move and resize windows to predefined positions and sizes, free form tool lets user choose position and size so what exactly did you expect from free form tool and what you mean by "exact positioning of some windows"?

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Cowicide replied on 07 Feb 2011

responding to below: from what I could tell, the free form is limited to a grid a varying resolution as I said above. In other words, I don't see how I can make my Safari window exactly 1024x768 pixels if I'd like it to, instead it will be to the dimensions of your grid. If there's a way to get around it, I haven't easily found it.

Trifle (developer) replied on 17 May 2011

So far there is no such an option. We will consider adding it.

+338

Cowicide commented on 26 Jan 2011

On another note Arrange conflicts with my Exposé hot corners as well if I want to move a window to show all it's corresponding windows in Exposé via a hot corner. Like to be able to turn that off or something. I tried right-clicking on the arrows the Dev puts in the menu bar, but nada. Not very user friendly. I hope this gets improved and I'll come back to try this again.

[Version 1.3.2]

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Trifle (developer) replied on 31 Jan 2011

I use Expose and hot corners and see no conflict with Arrange. Can you explain the problem more precisely 'cos I really don't know what you mean. Additionally one of web sites which lists software is not good place to post information about problems if you really expect us to fix them 'cos we do not monitor all this pages regularly. There are support and bugs email addresses on our main page so there is no problem to find them.

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Cowicide replied on 07 Feb 2011

replying to response below: if Arrange is off and I have two Safari windows open I can drag one of the windows to the top-right hot corner to only show all windows of that app (as I have exposé set to) - If Arrange is ON, this stops working if I'm dragging a window.

+338

Cowicide replied on 07 Feb 2011

But the deal killer problem, is if I try to grab a favicon bookmark from a Safari URL, then drag it to my bottom-right Exposé hot corner and then try to drag it to a folder on my Desktop, the folder won't open. If I turn off Arrange, this works fine again. I can't have that interrupting my workflow like that. Cinch doesn't have this issue.

Trifle replied on 17 May 2011

When I drag window to hot corner configured to show all application's windows nothing happen with and without Arrange running. When I move mouse to the hot corner it works as expected with and without Arrange. So could you describe to me how exactly are you using it?

Trifle (developer) replied on 17 May 2011

Regarding favicon drag. Problem you have described has nothing to do with Arrange. Sometimes it just do not work. Try to move mouse to all windows hot corner and immediately to desktop hot corner and you will see that it does not work. So Cinch does have this issue also. But as I say it has nothing to do with Arrange.

+338

Cowicide reviewed on 26 Jan 2011

Really like how you can customize the windows and "arrange" them. But, I switched back to Cinch because this was forgetting to put my Safari windows back to the size they were before I "arranged" them.

Until that's fixed, this app isn't any use to me.

[Version 1.3.2]

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Trifle (developer) replied on 31 Jan 2011

When you use zone resize functionality Arrange does restore previous sizes of windows so it works exactly like Cinch and still has more options and is more configurable. So first of all if Arrange is no use for you so is Cinch and second I don't understand your ratings. Two stars for Arrange and five for the same kind of application but with smaller and less configurable functionality. Well...

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Cowicide replied on 07 Feb 2011

With Arrange sometimes the Safari windows snap back to original size and sometimes it doesn't (especially after some time with opening other windows in Safari and in other apps) - Cinch has never had this problem and always remembers the size no matter how long afterwards I move the window away from the edges. So, hence.. my ratings.

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Mimiwan2 reviewed on 05 Jan 2011

Hi! My name is Mimi! I've been using this tool for a while and what i can say: "When i fall in love, It will be forever
Or I'll never fall in love (...)"! People, do not listen Dawido he is a Polish! My neighbor is a Polish ... uff God they are always grizzling. This is the best tool i have ever bought for Mac, really!

[Version 1.3]