{"id":29596,"date":"2023-10-19T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=29596"},"modified":"2023-10-20T09:06:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:06:37","slug":"stage-manager-shift-command-click","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/stage-manager-shift-command-click\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Tip \u2014 Easy Way to Bring in Windows to the Foreground with Stage Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last December, my buddy Ron and I had a chat for the NosillaCast on why we both love Stage Manager on the Mac<\/a>. In the last ten months, my love for Stage Manager has not dwindled a bit. Even with my devotion, there was one thing that still felt clumsy.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s say I\u2019m writing an email to someone and I want to add an attachment. With Mail in the foreground of Stage Manager, I can get to the Finder in two different ways. I can Command-Tab to it, or I can click on a Finder Window in the stacks on the left.<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s a stack with just a Finder window open, that window will pop into visibility and the Mail window will go into a stack. While I can drag the item from the Finder, now I don\u2019t have the Mail app visible to drag it into. In order to get both apps visible at the same time, I have to have one app visible, and then click and drag the second one onscreen. That\u2019s dandy if the Finder window is the only thing in a stack, or if it\u2019s the top thing in a stack. But sometimes the Finder window is in a stack with another app, so I have to drag the first app into visibility, then drag Finder into visibility, and finally hide that second app again. It\u2019s a glorious example of faffing about.<\/p>\n

At this point, if you\u2019re not already a fan of Stage Manager, I may have convinced you to never try it! But please bear with me on the tiny tip that solves this problem.<\/p>\n

I was listening to the HomeKit Insider podcast<\/a> from the fine folks at Apple Insider, hosted by Andrew Ohara and Stephen Robles, and I heard one of the gentlemen briefly mention a better way of moving windows around when using Stage Manager.<\/p>\n

He said that you can hold down Shift-Command while clicking on an app in the stack, and that app will immediately join the current main window. It\u2019s awesome. No more dragging in and out and Command-Tabbing around. I can\u2019t believe how much more efficient Stage Manager is with this tiny trick.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been using the drag-and-drop problem to illustrate the value of this Shift-Command-Click trick for Stage Manager, but remember that there are a lot of times you just want to see two apps at the same time. It rocks for that too.<\/p>\n

Sometimes you have more than one application open in a stack. Let\u2019s use our Mail example, and you need a Finder window, but it\u2019s in a stack with Safari and you can see it\u2019s actually behind<\/em> Safari. If you can get your cursor onto the edge of that hidden Finder window when you hit Shift-Command, just that Finder window will come forward. Sometimes it\u2019s tricky to get just that window but most of the time it\u2019s successful.<\/p>\n

In September of this year, I explained how I use Yoink with Stage Manager<\/a>. It solves the drag-and-drop problem and I\u2019m still a fan, but it doesn\u2019t solve the problem of bringing up a stacked application window, and it requires buying and installing a $9 app.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m gleefully happy about Shift-Command-Click in a stack to make my Stage Manager experience even happier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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