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There is a need for this feature but the real problem is two specific flaws in AquaSnap. Without AquaSnap active, it isn't actually possible to move a window outside the monitors*.
Flaw 1: If you move a window QUICKLY away from a snapped position, it will skip ahead of the mouse cursor. Thus if you move the mouse cursor near the bottom of a monitor and release the mouse button, the window may be placed outside the monitor.
Flaw 2: Win+Arrowkey doesn't work when a window is outside the monitors, so you can't use hotkeys to move an escaped window back onto a monitor. Workaround: right-click on the AquaSnap icon in the system tray, select Off, select the escaped window by clicking once on its button in the Windows taskbar, use Win+Arrowkey to move window back into a monitor. Then turn AquaSnap on again.
*) Exception: A few programs that are not multi-monitor aware may open on a second monitor that has been disconnected since last time the program was open.
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This is the same as a newer, better described suggestion with the snappier title '"AquaScroll" Feature', which has more votes. I have moved my votes there.
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I do have a mouse with a wheel: that's how I meant to scroll in whichever window the mouse pointer is pointing at, without first clicking on the window (which moves the keyboard cursor inside that window).
I find that some Microsoft Office programs (depending on version) are able to scroll without focus, but not the majority of programs. At least not when running under Windows 7. But perhaps in newer versions of Windows?
I do know I can switch window focus in various ways as well as use multipe desktops. The point is that I want the option of typing in a window not in focus (for the reasons stated) while seeing other windows (that is, on the same desktop), like in X-Windows for Unix.
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> Could you please give a concrete example where this function would be a real advantage?
Derek said much of it I guess, but the advantages are:
1. I don't have to click on a window to be able to scroll it or type into it. All I have to do is move the mouse pointer to it. (I save a click, small advantage.)
2. I can scroll or type into a window without moving the keyboard cursor inside it, which a mouse click would do unless I click specifically on the title bar. For example, if I click a random place inside a word processing or spreadsheet window and start typing, text will not go where I left off last but somewhere else. So to scroll or type into a window, I don't have to aim and click specifically at the title bar: I can just move the mouse pointer to anywhere inside the window. (This is the main time saver.)
3. If the window I want to scroll or type into is partially covered by another window, but I see what I need to see, I can scoll it or type into it without covering up the currently topmost window.
By the way, this is how X-Windows for Unix (the window management software typically used for Unix) works -- well, anyway, that's how it worked when I used it in 1992-1994 :-)
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This is the same as the idea 'Configurable black-list to disable AquaSnap for a specific application', which has status PLANNED.
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25 votesLars Hallstrøm Eriksen
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No, this is still the same. Seems to happen more on slow computers and more with some programs, like there is some process where the mouse pointer doesn't keep up with the window. And Win+arrowkey still won't move a window that is outside the screen, but there is now a longer keyboard shortcut that does - but it's too complicated to remember, so I have to check the Hotkeys settings every time to find it :-/